Editing Structuring Teams (section)

=== A sustainable number of relationships ===
In the snowflake model, each person has a sustainable number of relationships. While you are likely to interact with many people in your organizing work, it’s important to focus on maintaining relationships with those on your team (one way to do this is through regular team meetings or maintenance 1:1s). As a general rule, if you are organizing full time (i.e. committing 40 hours/week), then you can maintain '''up to ten relationships'''. If are organizing part time, as is the case for the vast majority of grassroots organizers, you can maintain '''up to five relationships'''. Notice that in the previous diagram, no one is connected to more than five people.

The 1:1 meeting is an important tool for building the relationships that hold your team together. See the [[Building Relationships]] section for information on 1:1 meetings.