Holacracy Community of Practice Archive, 2015-2019 Community Holacracy Web Site
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Policies affecting "all functions and activities wit...
02/05/2019
Hello! In our organization I've noticed a tendency to create "policies" which are actually just rules to govern behavior or norms, and while I've always felt this wasn't really valid but I'm not sure I know enough about policies to be sure. As per §2.1.2 and §1.3 of the constitution it's implied ...
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Values In Holacracy
02/15/2019
Wow. [@mention:455886150941203371], you really are the gift that keeps on giving! That video and the example of how you do behavioral agreements was huge for me (coming from the other thread about policies that try to limit people behavior. Full disclosure - I work with [@mention:5776338756514999...
System Knowledge & Power
02/25/2019
Isn't though this the point of good facilitation? You can't expect everyone in the organization to become holacracy masters, but you don't have to because if a facilitator is doing their job well, they make it their business to help people find the pathways to solving their tensions, whether they...
Policies affecting "all functions and activities within the circle"
02/06/2019
Thanks both.Chris: makes sense that we would still have agreements outside of governance that would guide our behavior with one another, thanks for clarifying. So essentially what you're saying is that we could easily create documentation to "govern" our human obligations to one another and that ...
Policies affecting "all functions and activities within the circle"
02/08/2019
Wow! Thank you, Chris, for the incredibly detailed reply. This is very helpful. I will have a look through your resources and try to understand policies a bit better. Very much appreciated! 
Policies affecting "all functions and activities within the circle"
02/11/2019
Thanks Anne, that's very interesting and really great to hear about how other orgs are tackling these issues. I wonder though if your solution actually solves the problem - the problem being that a role is not a person, and can't be held accountable for "people" things. But I might also not be un...
Huddle meeting’s significance.
03/14/2019
What's a huddle meeting?
Org Space / Personal Space
03/19/2019
We're dealing with this very thing at the moment. Holacracy doesn't itself speak about personal space quite deliberately, since the idea is to separate role from soul. Holacracy deals with role and leaves you to sort out soul.What we've done recently is create a "Team Spirit Agreement," a documen...