Hello community friends!
Exciting news, one of our community groups hit a milestone of 100 members within its first few months and we couldn’t have done it without our Group Champion.* 
I felt that this was the perfect opportunity for me to build on my previous post , especially with more fellow community folks like
Now you may be wondering - Who is a Group Champion?
*Group Champion (GC) is someone from within your organization who has the subject expertise related to the interest group being launched. They take ownership of brainstorming ideas & content for the group’s engagement (I’m pretty sure the GC has a different name in your organization, but we like to get wacky with the names 😄).
As a CM myself, it always felt natural to me that launching & nurturing groups was only a CM’s job. But as we progressed, I noticed one of the biggest drawbacks that slowed the growth of the group, was the CM’s need for deep subject knowledge of multiple interest groups.
As a result, internally we decided to take a different route and seek experts from within our organization who can take on the ownership of a group from scratch, while I continue to support them to nurture the group.
We went through a series of steps/processes that have led to successfully having multiple Group Champions for different interest groups.
I’ve expanded my learnings into bits & pieces within the community here itself, so it’s easier to share with you all. I’d love to hear and learn from your experiences as well!