3 Topics
Supercircling the GCC - is it a thing?
I just realized by browsing through some examples that there are companies where the General Company Circle has a Supercircle (eg. Board, COOP). Is this common?
07/16/2018
Improving scheduling of Governance-Meeting
I just had (another) Governance-Meeting without a single tension. Since I am the Secretary of the Circle I would like to optimize the scheduling of Governance-Meetings to not waste time for the circle members. I already stretched them out (happens every 8 weeks), I don't think more stretching is ...
12/17/2018
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Spread of domains and/or policies
We've spent quite some time to understand how domains/policies work. My learnings:1) draw a distinction between Global Domains and Local Domains (thus +1 for a name change, its just not the same instrument)2) I found it helpful to understand that GCC holds all domains in the beginning (implicitly...
10/09/2017
What do your rep links do?
Interesting question. In our company they do things out of their actual accountabilities and what the role was intended (but still generate value)...They regularly meet together discussing if they see similar issues distributed among the circles or things their circle-members have in common. E.g....
10/25/2017
Eligibility
Funny you mention "opinions" Mikolaj. We actually had some mindgames if the Facilitator should be a (software) bot, because of what he has to do and what the Circle is expecting from him (acting cold-bloded, follow process, don't have feelings nor opinions). Maybe in 2-4 years Slackbot, Alexa and...
12/19/2017
Eligibility
I was in a circle where I lost all other roles (circle retired them by governance) except the role as secretary. I then decided to leave the circle because I then felt like an "external", having no other purpose in the circle.My point is "external" Facilitators or Secretaries are possible - but ...
12/17/2017
3 employees organization
Hi MatheusBasically, the hard restriction would be to be at least 2 person (seggregation of Lead Link and Rep Link).My two cents: Holacracy works for a 3-ppl-company - but it's not efficient. I think it will cost you more time to establish and run such a management model, better just have good co...
01/07/2018
Do managers compromise
Totally agree with [@mention:449833773917801859], great explanation. What we learned now (just a bit short of 1 year with Holacracy) is that in the old structure we hired managers which brought leadership skills (basically these where our business leader).Our problem often is that if we try to hi...
01/23/2018
Do managers compromise
I discussed this matter with a lot of people (do we need management / are managers bad?). Discussions I was involved mostly led to the same conclusion: good managers are a good thing, bad managers are a bad thing.If you have good people leading the tribe, creating space for everybody and help eve...
01/23/2018
Awkward Policy
Splendid article [@mention:450538002759581166]. We have sooooo many problems formulating policies and getting the idea right. There should be like a separate training-module just for this.I have one more "policy"-question. Since I have a role that is responsible for security, I have to "enforce" ...
03/05/2018
Awkward Policy
[@mention:450538002759581166], I don't want to hijack Arif's post, I will create a new topics
03/05/2018
Compensation for organizational roles
We had some similar discussions in our company after starting with Holacracy (and haven't solved them yet). IMHO there is one question lying underneath: do employees benefit from company success (bonuses, shares) or are they just paid for their work effort?When I benefit from lets say a dividend ...
02/28/2018
Absences Part 2: Coordination/Permission
I can share some topics we dealt with. We succeded where the topics had no negative financial impact on the company - and failed everywhere where it could have Sabbatical / Unpaid vacationBasically, I inform all Circles I have a role and see if there are any tensions. After that I trigger HR/Payr...
03/07/2018
Shadow Power - Resources
Is there a common agreement or a suitable definition what shadow powers are?I'm asking because in my role (or person) I feel several influences / forces; example: the owner of the company works in operative roles in the company, but since I know he could pull the plug on holacracy (or the whole c...
04/03/2018
Dealing with Rep Links overwhelm?
We experience similar issues and have not found good solutionsAt the moment our GCC "hosts" 8 Subcircles, luckily some members cover several roles (Rep Links or Link Links).Addendum: personally I would get rid of the double-linking concept (it can be useful, but it should not be mandatory. Disadv...
03/29/2018
ISO certification vs Holaspirit
Hi CathyWe managed to re-certify our ISO9001-cerfiticate after one year of pure holacracy-practice. We could even manage to get ISO27001 information security certification which is much harder.Also as Luca mentioned showing all the roles, circles and their accountabilites help a lot. For the rest...
06/25/2018
Nomination Catch-22?
We have the same - same person get's re-elected for the same role over and over, mostly until there is a explicit reason to change.What I would like to see is that basically everybody gets to "try" every role at least once. This would help everyone to understand the purpose and the why's of the r...
08/20/2018
Adding accountability to lead link role.
I would say you can add domains, but adding accountabilities is restricted => check 2.2.3
10/22/2018
Use of Terms
Hallo OliverIch würde so weit wie möglich bei der englischen Terminologie bleiben. Wie so oft verliert man bei Übersetzungen einfach an Qualität und Aussagekraft; bei uns haben wir die englischen Begriffe deshalb beibehalten.Ihr seid jedoch frei die Begriffe selbst zu definieren. Kopiert die Verf...
12/26/2018
Self-manegement through dictatorship
After starting Holacracy we experienced such patterns (often from persons that where in line management before). We called it "bossing" and even had a wikipage to document such "unhealthy behaviour" and talk about it.I think this is a vital point [@mention:590444325765688151] to have a good holac...
01/28/2019
Improving scheduling of Governance-Meeting
Iwan - you gave me the idea of the monthI observed the same. Governance proposals are quite difficult, without preparation they are often doomed. And even if they pass, everyone besides the proposer don't understand them fully or lack the time to get acquainted to the change and attribute real im...
12/19/2018
Improving scheduling of Governance-Meeting
Hi Jean-LucFlash Governance - this sounds interesting. How does it work?
12/23/2018
Strategy and priorities
Maybe my idea is naive too, but as a Lead Link, can't you just have a good talk to members of the circle which don't "obey" the strategy ("As a Lead Link I doubt your role fit is good since you lack to follow the strategy"). A bit harsh perhaps, but in the end the Lead Link should guide all circl...
02/04/2019