Fellow group organizer here! (and former uni club leader, though not for an EA group) Honestly I don’t think there were that many specific skills I learned from operations that helped me in group organizing, but rather it was the general operations mindset, which to me involves: a) noticing when things aren’t running smoothly as they can be (for me this is feels like a special kind of stress, and if I’m not careful, my brain directs the blame towards other people involved in the system rather than the system itself), and b) trying things, whether that be new management structures, different software tools, etc. In particular I’ve found that familiarity with tools like Airtable, Slack, and Asana has been helpful for group organizing but you can probably find resources for that on the EA Hub.
I’ll answer the rest of your questions separately.
Fellow group organizer here! (and former uni club leader, though not for an EA group) Honestly I don’t think there were that many specific skills I learned from operations that helped me in group organizing, but rather it was the general operations mindset, which to me involves: a) noticing when things aren’t running smoothly as they can be (for me this is feels like a special kind of stress, and if I’m not careful, my brain directs the blame towards other people involved in the system rather than the system itself), and b) trying things, whether that be new management structures, different software tools, etc. In particular I’ve found that familiarity with tools like Airtable, Slack, and Asana has been helpful for group organizing but you can probably find resources for that on the EA Hub.
I’ll answer the rest of your questions separately.