Link: The community spectrum: caring to combative

[sonia]

The community spectrum: caring to combative by SKUD.

The Competitive Spectrum describes communities as being:

• Caring: members are motivated by helping each other.
  
• Collaborative: members share goals and help each other to achieve them.
  
• Cordial: members have their own goals which do not conflict with each other.
  
• Competitive: members share the same goals, and compete against each other to achieve them.
  
• Combative: members must achieve their goals by preventing others from being doing so.

This is such a useful idea! I ran across it (via brainwane I believe, although I can't find the reference) shortly after telling my singing group that I want us to give each other kind, collaborative feedback. By which I mean, feedback that helps us become better singers and make better music. People keep thinking I mean that the group is run collectively. Nope! I'm the leader, *and* I want us to be at least collaborative, if not caring.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Bright blessings on the wayback machine.

This is a very helpful framing, and I hope you can share it with your group (and vice versa).

[sonia]

Yes, yay for the wayback machine! I made a donation to them last year and am very pleased with that use of my dollars.

I did send out this link on my mailing list, and had someone comment on it, but the singers haven't mentioned it. (There are 155 people on the mailing list, of which 8 come to the singing group and 2 come to my dance group. The rest are there for the links & events I send out, I guess!)