This blog post captures the goals, accomplishments, progress and challenges for Speakers Hive.
1. Hive Chapters & Meetings
- Total Hive Chapters: 2 Community Hives (online) + 1 Corporate Hive (offline/Tantude)
- Started a new online Hive that meets on Saturdays (3 pm - 4 pm) and completed 4 meetings.
- Completed 11 online community hive meetings on Sundays (8 am - 9 am)
- Tantude Corporate Hive has completed 10 online meetings.
- Organizing weekly meetings have become like clock work now.
- We have now volunteers completely owning the preparation of meeting agenda, pre-meeting flyer, issuing certificates and post-meeting recognitions. This helps us to scale and take the benefits of Speakers Hive to lot more people in the community.
- We conducted two workshops during this period - Front Office to Board Room Executive (By Lalitha Giridhar) and How to prepare for speeches (by Sudha Rajesh)
2. Membership & Mentorship
- We have 250 members in our community. Average attendance is 20 - 25 (Sunday meetings) and 15+ (Saturday meetings). We are able to provide speaking opportunities for 40+ people every week.
- We are yet to formally enrol members into the community, as there is a delay in the opening of the bank account.
- Membership growth focus took a back seat, as we were focused on establishing course curriculum / structure, mentoring existing role players and creating training materials for the new joiners.
- We have 25 mentors who are helping us in coaching / training our role players. This is our significant differentiator for now and it is helping our members learn the most. This is also helping us to run a high-quality meeting.
3. Curriculum Development
- The Speech Mastery Beginner Level 2 manual (with 5 speeches) is now available (Thanks to Sudha Rajesh for giving this a final shape).
- We are working on the Leadership Mastery Track currently.
4. Promotions & Marketing
- Created a new youtube channel to host some role-player videos. This would help us to quickly train the new joiners on the various roles played in Speakers Hive.
- We also have a presence in LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. We periodically share updates regarding our meetings and member recognitions on these social media platforms.
5. Administration & Operations
- We received our PAN card (There was a delay of 10 days for this).
- We applied for a Bank Account - and it is under process by the bank. Hoping to complete this task before the end of Oct 2025.
What is ahead of us?
- Bank account creation and Members enrolment
- Leadership Mastery Beginner Level curriculum creation
- Identify Hive Office Bearers from each chapter and support / train them to run the Hive Chapters independently.
- Conduct weekly educational programs to make our members and volunteers more informed (a new volunteer has stepped up to own this)
- Grooming more volunteers to sign-up for leadership roles - this will help us to scale the movement and benefit lot more people in the community.
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