How Holacracy works
Paul
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I introduced sociocracy / holacracy to SOL as it is the best structure I know of for fairness, efficiency, to grow the group while creating a pleasant environment to work in. Holacracy is probably the best model for a party like SOL.
I am not an expert in it so found this link to get help explaining it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MUHfVoQUj54
And text explaining it:
http://holacracy.org/how-it-works
Oliver Minter Sun 21 Sep 2014 3:02AM
Its interesting Paul - but until i see clear examples of how to use it within SOL - and how it differs from normal democratic decision making - it doesn't make sense for me. Especially this sentence - "Give everyone a voice, without the tyranny of consensus". I think maybe Holacracy will make more sense when our organisation is bigger. But until then - we all need to workout a FAIR, CONSISTENT, SPEEDY & STREAMLINED PROCESS for adding new staff members to Senator Online. We need a basic list of Criteria that needs to be met by an applicant. And we need to ultimately decide together on whether to include them as a new staff member. In order to achieve some sort of consensus about whether to include them - I see no other way than to ask the current members of SOL to essentially vote on it. I am aware that one of the ideals of the Holacracy that we seem to have adopted is that we have essentially Autonomous Subgroups with their own way of organising and then they choose a Delegate to attend the IC Meetings.. i get that... and in the future that will work... BUT thats not actually what is currently actually happening atm in SOL. In all honesty because we are such a small group - the main decisions are being passed by the IC via their own Private email communications and via their own private fortnightly meetings. The IC is the group that can see all the information and all the problems within SOL from an aerial perspective - not all that info/knowledge/perspective is being passed on to each subgroup atm... Basically I am saying - if you're on the IC - then you can see the WHOLE picture of SOL. If some of Emma's skills are in the realm of Internal Governance - she will need to be in the IC as well as the IG in order to grasp the whole picture and the whole problem.
Paul · Sat 20 Sep 2014 8:05AM
A small self appointed group at the top of an organisation like SOL may have trouble recruiting people to essentially work under there direction.
Leading by example, using a system of governance that gets away from a few elected (or not) people at the top of an organisation would be a great start in leading by example. Sociocracy and holacracy are such systems, they are 'battle' tested and have proven to work, lets take advantage of the enormous amount of energy that has been put into refining them over the last 30 years and use these systems.