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Holacracy in Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona
Hello, we are currently implementing Holacracy at an international Start-Up in Berlin, Zurich and Barcelona. I am looking for people who are interested to meet (especially in Berlin) to discuss ideas and experiences. Please let me know if you know of...
09/21/2015
Constitution and Meeting Cards in Spanish
Hi everybody! We're about to implement Holacracy in our Barcelona Office. Is there already a constitution available in Spanish and/or Catalan? And has anybody prepared meeting cards in Spanish already? If none of the above apply: Is somebody...
11/19/2015
OKRs and Holacracy
Hello Holacracy Community, have any of you combined Holacracy and OKRs already? What are your experiences? Have you created any roles or policies around OKRs? As I undestand it, the OKR philosophy suggests that everyone defines 5 Objectives and 4 Key Results for each Objective. What happens if a ...
12/11/2015
The Dark Side: Firing in Holacracy
Dear Practitioners of Holacracy, how do you handle Firing with Holacracy? We are currently setting up a process on Hiring and Firing. The Hiring seems to be easy: if the responsible Roles agree and the budget is available go and hire the person. Easy. Firing on the other hand seems a bit harder. ...
12/18/2015
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Holacracy in Chile
Hi Paul, I just posted this question which goes in a similar direction as yours: https://community-archive.holacracy.org...ing-cards-in-spanish
11/19/2015
Third Party Contractors - Partners?
We had a similar question in our organization where I answered as follows:1. Whether or not we include freelancers is a decision of your best judgement. Do you think the person should be involved with our entire organization and be able to interact with other roles frequently? Then this person sh...
11/26/2015
Constitution and Meeting Cards in Spanish
Hi everybody,Here's our translation of the cards into Spanish. We haven't translated the testing objections part yet. Would be great to get your input for that.Governance Meeting Card: https://docs.google.com/docume...A7I/edit?usp=sharingTactical Meeting Card: https://docs.google.com/docume...ttk...
12/04/2015
Constitution and Meeting Cards in Spanish
Hello Paul, we didn't translate the titles and headings because most of our meetings are conducted in English and we found it useful to have the titles and headings unchanged. But please feel free to change whatever you want. I made the files public and everyone has permisson to edit.Here you can...
12/07/2015
OKRs and Holacracy
Thank you everyone for all of your very helpful replies! It's really great to have this community.Some reactions on your reactions:I don't see a major conflict between OKRs and Holacracy in terms of Hierarchy. It is clearly defined that the Lead Link of group sets the strategies and the Lead Link...
12/18/2015
Hola Spirit web tool
What I find much more important than translating the glassfrog interface is to have an option to switch between languages of role descriptions (Name, Purpose, Domain, Accountability)! We are working in English and German at our company and are facing the problem that some Circles use German Role ...
12/16/2015
OKRs and Holacracy
Ruben @ Springest posted:The conflict could be that officially (although it's not licensed or anything afaik) a manager can set the OKR for the coworker. John Doerr advices "at least 60% of the OKRs should be bottom up". In Holacracy that would be 100%, the Lead Link sets strategy for the circle ...
01/12/2016
Resources for DIYers
Hi Chris,a video of an excellent Tactical Meeting and an excellent Governance Meeting would help a lot. I'd love to see a high quality, scripted training video that shows all the benefits of Holacracy in practice.In Tactical Meeting: Fast paced, lots of results, focused on outcomes, diverse cont...
02/08/2016
Depth vs Complexity in learning Holacracy
This video has altered the way I teach Holacracy. Here's my new approach: https://medium.com/p/5e98272e9ed8
05/06/2016
Holacracy Firms in Germany
Hi Jo,you'll find another overview of companies here: http://structureprocess.com/holacracy-cases/In Berlin there is an avid community of Holacracy practiticing companies. Let's get in touch if you want to get in contact with them.BestFrederik
06/06/2016
Tips for finding tension
Hi Fajar,at the beginning of the meeting (before you enter the rigid rules of the Governance Meeting) you could integrate a short "Tension Harvesting" session.This works as follows:1. Simply ask the participants "What is a tension?". Let them name one or two Tensions out loud and maybe engage the...
04/22/2017
Tips for finding tension
PS: You write: "We are starting to implement holacracy. And we have the initial structure setup. I understand that based on the getting started guide, the next step would be to hold our first governance meeting." If you are very new to Holacracy it might make sense to look for a seasoned Holacrac...
04/22/2017