Challenge: Building the Team

**Future Vision**

Every collaboration needs an engine to propel it forward: a carefully composed team working closely together, feeling jointly reponisble for the challenge at hand. A team that has the capabilities to help drive the change. Here we build the core-team that supports this hub. The core-team will help guide and support the crews working on the challenges in this hub and share their insight on how to build effective crews so other hub-owners can use this knowledge.

**Current Reality**

In practice we often look at a single person or startup-organization to propel a topic forward. While in fact the societal issues we are working on require multiple stakeholders to move jointly to bring about a change.

**Comments**

*Tim Ruijters:*
I care about this challenge, because the first step in building a hub is in my opinion building a core team of 3-7 people.

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*Hoyte Rutteman:*
What would be the function of this core team? 😃

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*Flori Spoelstra:*
I think the core team should:

1. organize some community sessions to set the goal + identify and prioritize challenges (where possible with the help of this platform);
2. use this input to set up the hub according the community's needs;
3. establish a way of working so everybody can contribute and the core team is not the single point of success or failure.

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*Flori Spoelstra:*
So I've taken the liberty to change the goal of this challenge a little. Curious to hear what you think of it.

- Previous focus: providing guidance/best-practices to build effective crews around challenges in general.
- New focus: pull together the crew to propel this challenge-centric hub forward. In other words: the members of this challenge are there to perform the tasks necessary to run this hub, and not (just) to identify what the tasks of a crew should be.