Every fortnight, we’ll try to communicate all that’s happening with R4R from an internal perspective, to help you understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, so you can enjoy the ride, help us correct-course, or put your shoulder to the wheel.
What’s in this update?
A reflection on the first quarter
Adding responsibilities to our improved system
Integration with ClaudeAI
The first two months of this year felt massive, and like most sprints or inclines in a run, there’s always a period of active recovery… maintaining momentum but giving yourself a chance to catch your breath before settling in on a faster pace, or embarking on another climb.
It feels like we’ve caught our breath in the last month, and we’re ready to go again, looking to keep improving R4R as best we can.
While our improved structures and communications are yielding benefits already, there’s still room for improvement… and there’s two clear avenues in my mind, for these improvements to occur.
Responsibilities
The first is leveraging our structure and communications to better assign responsibilities. This helps people know what they need to do, and adds a layer of accountability.
It will also help me identify who needs help with their contributions to R4R.
Early on this year, my role was to seek feedback and connect the dots. As we’ve actioned feedback and built a system that connects the different parts of R4R, I think my role will shift to assistance.
By checking in with people assigned certain responsibilities, and seeing how I can help them, it will help progress action items while maintaining channels of communication for feedback, allowing for continuous improvement
Integration
The second avenue for improvement is leveraging the capabilities that ClaudeAI provides.
Fortunately, over the past 6 years we’ve tried do everything that mirrors good systems and best practice. The benefit of this is we have clear pathways, policies, principles, and now structures and online workspaces.
We can provide all this to AI, give it access to our online workspaces, and detail the instructions we already give ourselves, automating much of the admin that only frees up mor of our energy to focus on what matters.
Business as usual
Aside from the above avenues for improvement, we want to keep getting better at what we’re doing now… and we think much of that rests with volunteer experience and sharing stories.