Your Community Management System
Assemble everything into a sustainable community management system with daily, weekly, and monthly workflows — plus scaling strategies and burnout prevention for community managers.
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Everything Together
🔄 Quick Recall: Over seven lessons, you built individual components: community strategy, onboarding flows, content systems, moderation workflows, conflict protocols, and analytics dashboards. Now you’ll connect them into a single sustainable operation — the community management system that runs your community efficiently every day.
The goal isn’t to build a community that demands all your time. It’s to build one that thrives within a manageable, repeatable workflow — freeing you to do the strategic, human work that no system can replace.
Your Community Management System
Here’s how every component connects:
| Component | What It Handles | Lesson |
|---|---|---|
| Strategy & Purpose | Why the community exists, who it’s for, and how you measure success | Lesson 2 |
| Onboarding | New member welcome, personalization, first engagement within 48 hours | Lesson 3 |
| Content Engine | Monthly calendar, discussion prompts, rituals, member spotlights | Lesson 4 |
| Moderation | Tiered AI-human system, guidelines, enforcement escalation | Lesson 5 |
| Crisis Protocols | Conflict resolution, toxic member handling, crisis communication | Lesson 6 |
| Analytics | Health dashboard, sentiment tracking, churn prediction, ROI reporting | Lesson 7 |
| Workflows | Daily/weekly/monthly routines that tie everything together | This lesson |
The Daily Workflow (60-90 minutes)
Create my daily community management workflow.
My community:
- Platform: [Discord/Slack/Circle/other]
- Size: [X] members
- Active members: approximately [X]
- My available time: [X] hours per day for community management
- Volunteer moderators: [X or none]
Design a structured daily routine:
MORNING CHECK (15 minutes):
- Review overnight moderation queue (AI-flagged items)
- Check community sentiment pulse
- Respond to any urgent member issues
- Verify onboarding automation ran for new members
ENGAGEMENT BLOCK (20-30 minutes):
- Post daily content from pre-built calendar
- Engage in 3-5 active discussions (deepen conversations)
- Welcome highlighted new members personally
- DM 1-2 members for relationship building
AFTERNOON CHECK (15 minutes):
- Review new moderation flags
- Follow up on morning conversations
- Check member questions that need responses
END-OF-DAY (10 minutes):
- Quick metrics scan (any anomalies?)
- Note any tasks for tomorrow
- Ensure no open urgent items
Include: what to do on light days vs. heavy days,
and what to skip if time is short.
The Weekly Workflow
Create my weekly community management workflow.
Include these weekly tasks:
CONTENT PLANNING (30 minutes):
- Review next week's content calendar
- Adjust based on current trends or events
- Prepare any special content (spotlights, events)
ANALYTICS REVIEW (20 minutes):
- Weekly engagement metrics vs. benchmarks
- New member activation rate
- Sentiment trend (improving, declining, stable?)
- Identify at-risk members for outreach
MODERATION REVIEW (15 minutes):
- Review the week's moderation actions
- Assess any patterns (new type of spam, recurring conflicts)
- Update moderation rules if needed
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING (30 minutes):
- Personal outreach to 3-5 valuable members
- Respond to any direct feedback or suggestions
- Check in with volunteer moderators
PLANNING (15 minutes):
- What worked this week? What didn't?
- One thing to improve next week
- Any upcoming events or announcements to prepare
The Monthly Workflow
| Monthly Task | Time | What You Do |
|---|---|---|
| Content calendar | 60 min | Generate next month’s content with AI |
| Analytics deep-dive | 30 min | Cohort analysis, retention trends, sentiment report |
| Business report | 30 min | ROI metrics for stakeholders |
| Moderator check-in | 20 min | Review mod team, address concerns, celebrate wins |
| Community survey | 15 min | Short pulse survey on member satisfaction |
| Strategy review | 30 min | Are we on track for quarterly goals? Adjustments needed? |
✅ Quick Check: Why is a monthly strategy review essential even when things are going well? Because communities drift. What worked 3 months ago might not work now — member demographics shift, topic interests evolve, engagement patterns change. Without periodic strategy review, you optimize for yesterday’s community instead of today’s. The monthly check ensures your purpose, content, and systems are still aligned with what members actually need.
Scaling Your Community
My community is growing beyond what I can manage alone.
Help me create a scaling plan.
Current state:
- Members: [X], growing at [X] per month
- My time: [X] hours/week
- Current bottleneck: [what's taking the most time?]
Design a scaling plan:
PHASE 1 — AUTOMATE (what can AI handle that I'm doing manually?)
- Moderation tasks to automate
- Onboarding steps to automate
- Content generation to systematize
PHASE 2 — DELEGATE (what needs a human but not necessarily me?)
- Volunteer moderator recruitment and training plan
- Tasks suitable for delegation
- Oversight structure (how I stay informed without doing everything)
PHASE 3 — GROW THE TEAM (when do I need paid help?)
- Metrics that trigger hiring (member count, daily volume, revenue)
- First role to hire (community coordinator? Content creator? Mod lead?)
- Job description and success metrics
Preventing Community Manager Burnout
Help me audit my community management workload for sustainability.
Current weekly hours on community management: [X]
My biggest time consumers: [list]
What I enjoy most: [list]
What drains me most: [list]
Assess:
1. What am I doing manually that should be automated?
2. What am I doing that doesn't need to be done at all?
3. What decisions am I making daily that should be a written policy?
4. Where am I "performing" community management (being visible
for visibility's sake) vs. doing impactful work?
5. What's my realistic sustainable weekly commitment?
Create a revised workflow that stays under [target hours] per week
without sacrificing community health.
Key Takeaways
From this course, you now know how to:
- Strategize — Define community purpose, select platforms, and set measurable goals using the SPACES framework (Lesson 2)
- Onboard — Build AI-powered welcome sequences that drive first engagement within 48 hours (Lesson 3)
- Engage — Create sustainable content systems with batch calendars, AI prompts, and weekly rituals (Lesson 4)
- Moderate — Implement tiered AI-human moderation with values-first guidelines and clear enforcement (Lesson 5)
- Resolve — Handle conflicts, toxic members, and crises with the inside-out communication principle (Lesson 6)
- Analyze — Track community health, predict churn, and prove ROI in business language (Lesson 7)
- Sustain — Run your community in 60-90 minutes daily with structured workflows that prevent burnout (This lesson)
The most important takeaway: AI doesn’t replace community managers — it amplifies them. The best communities in 2026 will be managed by people who use AI for volume and speed while investing their human time in the work that actually builds belonging: genuine relationships, thoughtful responses, and a culture where members feel they matter.
Congratulations on completing the course! Claim your certificate and run your first weekly analytics review — the habit that turns community management from guesswork into science.
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