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Not following the rules
We have specific policies around serious misconduct and dismissal as per our local HR laws these spell out the process of breaching the rules and the subsequent actions/projects that are then initiated and can ultimately lead to dismissal. Our Serious misconduct policy is in alignment with Austra...
08/27/2015
Requesting Checklist and Matrices
Role doesn't need to approve it has an obligation under the duties of transparency as spelled out in 4.1.1 of the constitution Checklist Items & Metrics: You must share whether you have completed any regular, recurring actions that you routinely perform in service your Roles in the Circle. Yo...
08/27/2015
Setting up roles/circles
At Telus partners we now have a work discovery process we use to determine the work done and thus the starting structure. We use 3 initial 2hr meetings to discover the work. The first meeting is uncovering it, the second meeting is clustering it and the third meeting is with the potential lead li...
08/27/2015
operating without a Lead Link?
Whether there is a lead link or not there is still a hierarchy of roles. You can of course remove the accountabilities of the lead link but the role still must exist even if it has no current accountabilities. See the constitution 2.2.3 2.2.3 Amending the Lead Link RoleA Circle may not add Accoun...
08/27/2015
Not following the rules
The policy is about the people employed within the organisation so it sits with the circle that has the domain of the interaction between the organisation and its partners/emloyees in the case I have included that's the partnership circle but of course placing it in the anchor circle means it cas...
08/28/2015
Holacracy Constitution Quiz
We run an internal Holacracy Role Filler training as part of our implementation. It focus's on Articles 1 and 4 of the constitution as I believe they are the most important to expose people filling roles to. The course is a walk through of those sections and some activities exercises as I am also...
08/28/2015
Setting up roles/circles
I concur with Richard anything you do needs to be grounded in the work. When we run the discovery session I do it spontaneously and without seeing any formal position descriptions and structural diagrams. The times we have used the existing structure and drawn out some starting circles I have fou...
08/28/2015
Gamifying Glassfrog
I promote the whole Holacracy implementation as a game just like the famous book the great game of business. I love the idea of gamifying Glassfrog though you have my vote on that. My only caution is it should probably be about using GF for tracking projects and reviewing roles using the my autho...
08/28/2015
Newby questions
Hi Cecilia, Welcome to the CoP. Coaching in Holacracy is outlined herehttp://www.holacracy.org/licensing We find coaching happens a during the tactical and governance meetings as the practice is the best learning tool with light education points during the meeting where required and then followed...
08/28/2015
Loved the hygenea game in PCT training
I heard a while ago they were working on an electronic version but yes I add my voice to this bring out Holacracy the Game!!!!!
08/28/2015
Gamifying Glassfrog
Bernard, Would you be willing to share the metrics you track I think they would be most valuable but understand if you can't. Furthermore I have developed a parsing system that parses the outputs from tactical meetings this then records the work into our ticket management system that then can be ...
08/29/2015
Holacracy Constitution Quiz
Keith happy to help ping me for a skype meeting on my meetme now address booknow.so/TelusPartners I even have reasonable times for you guys on the tope of the world :-) Would love to discuss what your doing and offer some thoughts
09/01/2015
Targeted Tactical Meetings (TTM)
A number of my clients use variation of the tactical meeting process in conjunction with their practice specifically some of the larger projects within the circle or cross circle projects and find that glass frog is still a very useful tool to capture there outputs
01/11/2016
Partner Relationships Domain?
I possibly see this a little too simply but it's specifically that the organisation is purchasing services just like it purchases products and as such needs to define the process's around this.To assist in the best possible transaction and result for the organisation to achieve its purpose the or...
01/11/2016
Roles vs. Business Functions
I have found that a uncovering of the work not related to positions but from a day to day week to week and month to month process works really well we create a key people brainstorming workshop where we walk through each persons typical day, week etc and really just capture the work. We then go t...
01/11/2016
The role of works council
In Australia we have union representation via shop stewards in which case they are purely roles within the organisation. Other ways of dealing with it here is to use context reps that represent the external context within the appropriate circle within the organisation. Also for specific legal req...
01/11/2016
Medium moving beyond Holacracy - Lessons ?
I remember them discussing the level of accountability detail they were dealing with at a coaching course a few years ago and one of the things they were struggling with was too much detail in accountabilities I guess they were not able to get past that.
03/06/2016
Rockefeller Habits
I found that Scaling up offers some great Holacracy Apps be aware Verne is working on his own "Networked Organisation" based on agile
09/14/2017
OmniFocus Alternative
As a GTD Master Trainer and Coach and a complete nut on integration etc, I can recommend 2 products. For true GTD Implementations, I find Todoist comes a little short for my students, I recommend Nirvana HQ its a well implemented GTD List management software that really helps support the practic...
02/05/2019