Community-Led Team : How to Create a Team that Leads Itself

A group should work as a team, but one team member doesn't show up at meetings, another is doing all the work of the others, and nobody in the team dares to give critical feedback. Usually these problems are handled by a supervisor. What if the team worked as a community-led team, without a supervisor? Working in a community-led team challenges the team members to grow as people and to take responsibility for the whole group. The key word here is communication. This book presents the model of a community-led team, which can help a team to learn step by step to work without a supervisor, and to further develop the team' previous working methods.

Karl-Johan Spiik has during his career worked for over a decade in community-led teams, usually in the role of a coaching leader. He has participated more than 60 projects in teams of different sizes. Karl-Johan trains teams and organizations to work in a more agile way in a continuously changing environment. Karl-Johan' basic values and knowledge focus on ways of avoiding hurry and stress by improving the working methods. Tools for all this are project leadership, his own experience, and community-led orientation.