Author: Ted Rau
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How to choose a governance system for your organization
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Is your nonprofit, small business, or volunteer group looking for a new way to make decisions? Many groups are questioning our mainstream systems — and that includes the systems by […]
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A case study of a community-based research program: The Hawai’i Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities
This article explores the ambitious implementation of sociocracy within the Hawai’i Partnership for Climate-Smart Commodities Program (HiCSC), an initiative funded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Climate Smart Commodities Program involving a broad consortium of university academic and community-based organizations across Hawai’i.
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Does self-management increase diversity in teams? (Probably not.)
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How to improve performance with feedback and self-management? Find out what science says about their benefits and conditions.
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Feedback and Self-management: What Science tells us
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How to improve performance with feedback and self-management? Find out what science says about their benefits and conditions.
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Rounds, turn-taking, and team performance
Rounds facilitate the habits that research shows make teams thrive. Distributing speaking turns is backed by science!
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Dividing Up Work and Decision-Making for Effective Teams
The question of group size With the world’s issues and complexity rising, the number of people who need to collaborate to address an issue gets bigger and bigger. The higher […]
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Sociocracy vs Holacracy: what are the similarities and differences between them?
This is an attempt to map out the sameness and differences between sociocracy and Holacracy. These are small, yet – depending on your values – significant.
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Simple, clear problem-solving steps for groups
Let’s say you identify an issue that you think needs to be addressed or a problem that needs to be solved. How do you go from noticing the issue to making a decision?
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How to have quick meetings that don’t waste time
Meeting time is precious, so it’s a matter of respect to be clear about our intentions first. And the good news is there’s a framework that makes this easy.
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The myth of natural flow
“Why do we need a format to speak? Can’t we just talk naturally?!” What feels “natural” or fair to people in meetings is deeply impacted by informal power structures and biases. Fair meetings require intentional formats.
