LLC Webinar | Network Structures: Innovative Governance and Decision-Making with June Holley
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Leadership Webinar SeriesNovember 2, 2017
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June HolleyNetwork Structures:
Governance and Decision-Making
Today’s Presenter
In the chat: Where are you?1. Are you part of a network with a governing board?
2. Are you supporting a number of networks and want to help them in designing their governance systems?
3. Are you starting a new network or helping an informal network be more intentional?
4. Other, please explain
Governance and Decision-Making
What is governance?▸ Who is making decisions about what?
▸ Where are decisions made?
▸ How are decisions made?
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This is an urgent issue not just for networks but for all parts of our lives because how governance works in our lives is about BOTH
▸ power and control
▸ who creates the world around us
9CAN’T CREATE A HEALTHY WORLD WITHOUT ADDRESSING unequal POWER AND CONTROL
10Most Current GovernanceBoards & Senior Management & Congress have the power and control - they make the rules
Corporations NonprofitsRepresentative Democracy
But what are the alternatives?
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13Dozens of new networks being formed every month
The only way to deal with the complexity of problems we face
14And yet, most of us have pulled the old decision making models from the non profit and corporate world.
Many networks have governing boards, much like non profit boards, that plan and make decisions.
Staff and governing board
Network Participants
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Let’s create Network Governance based on our values...
Proactively dismantling hierarchical and racist power dynamics through peerness and distributed, decentralized power
▸ Open and transparent
▸ Inclusive and peer-based
▸ Relational
▸ Participatory
▸ Based on interests
▸ Experimental
▸ Innovative
▸ Individual and group initiative
▸ Adaptive and continually improving
▸ Transformational, based on radical learning
▸ Fun
16Governance Based on our VALUES
requires us to interact in new ways
18Networks based on these values unleashes amazing innovation & energy for transformation
Three exciting shifts:
1. Technology
2. Enough different network models of governance that we can learn from
3. New participatory processes
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Two types of networks emerging in importance for governance:
1. Multi-sector policy networks
2. Networks who are applying the self-organizing project model to network operations & governance
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▸ Example: large scale conservation networks
▸ Many people and organizations with diverse perspectives (tree-huggers, loggers, government, non-profits, business, residents) come together and develop POLICY or GOALS that all consent to (for management of the land)
▸ Some cases highly participatory, many using well-developed & innovative deliberation, dialogue and decision-making processes
▸ A model of how more and more policy may be made in the future
21Multi-sector Policy Networks
Self-organizing networks ▸ Many people initiate action in the network
through self-organizing collaborative projects
▸ Many more people initiate, get engaged and become leaders
▸ Action is experimental - helping us learn more about problems, about the world we are trying to co-create
22Self- organizingnetworks
Self-organizing networks perfecting co-creation & synergy processes▸ Local food networks
▸ Health Access Network: very rural Allen County Kansas Culture of Health Award from RWJF; dozens of projects involving hundreds of resident in creating greater access to health
▸ Resonance Network: innovation fund supporting projects of young girls of color and emerging issues fund that have made sure women not left out of disaster assistance in Florida. They encourage peer support and deep learning among funded projects.
23Self- organizingNetworks
EXAMPLES
New model of self-organizing governance: Circles and Advice
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Self-organizing fits a lot of our values: many people engaged in governing through co-creating
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Other self-organizing models
http://sociocracy30.org/
https://www.holacracy.org/
Highly
Recommended!
An easy read!
Circles
As a network need emerges, a self-organizing group forms to address that need
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Zappos Circle Structure
From Harvard Business Review https://hbr.org/2016/07/beyond-the-holacracy-hype
The importance of starting with small circles29
Usually only 2-3 meetings needed to develop proposal and make decision
Small commitment means many more people willing to volunteer
This means higher engagement levels of network participants
Important strategy for expanding the network
Powerful way to develop more leadership
NCT Staff
Tenants Bill of Rights
Best Practices
Coordinating
Convening Circle
NEWHAB STRUCTURE
Ad Hoc
Ad hoc
Other Ad hoc
Informal
A
Networking
Mostly ad hoc groups with a mixture of Network Design/Operations and Issue Content
31 Catalyst
Circle
Circle
Scanning:What is needed?
Where is the energy?
Circle
Governing group shifts to being a Catalyst Group
Catalyst Group
32Supporting
Catalyzing
Catalyst Group helps set up
1. Need a good communications system: people need to have access and know how to use zoom, google docs, group email
2. Need staff and current governing board or consultants serve as coaches for circles the first few times
3. Circles need to share what they are learning about running circles through a community of practice
4. Need resources for the circles for coordination, research, expertise, graphics, etc
Noticing where operational needs and energy are
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Catalyze lots of action and self-Organizing circles
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Make sure the commun- ication system lets people know about network operational needs
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COACHING
Make sure growth and learning are supported
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Encourage everyone to support new leadership - set up Communities of Practice so circles can learn from each other
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Characteristics of Catalyst Group
38 1. Big picture person2. Good at noticing what is needed3. Like to catalyze and get things started4. Good at supporting others5. Systems thinker6. Thoughtful, not rigid, open7. Like innovation, not afraid of trying new
things8. Big capacity for learning and reflection9. Majority people of color
Have your governing board take the values survey - if the group scores high, you’re ready to go!
Decision- making byAdvice Process
Circle makes final decision but must seriously consider advice
39Supporting
Catalyzing
Noticing
EngagingCircle Drafts
Proposal - Co-design
Sends proposal
to all impacted
People give
advice / feedback
Circle incorp- orates advice
Decision review
time set
Data on how
worked
It’s much easier (and faster) making decisions as part of a co-design process!
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Example:CommunicationMany small projects with different people in each based on interests
41 Communication Circle
Web Page more
engagingZoom
Training
Group blog for sharing
42 Resourcing the Network’s Work (Funding
Pools)
Emergent Issues Fund System
leverage Fund
Innovation Fund
Circles Projects
FundFunders: this is a place you could really help!
43 Reflection and Learning
Values Shift
Communities of Practice
Storytelling
44 1. Have people in your network read Reinventing Organizations Illustrated
2. Share this video and/or powerpoint
3. Form a Study Group
4. Let us know in chat if you want a follow-up session where we could have people trying circles share how it is going, give you a chance to ask more questions, and we talk about implementation in more detail.
Where to start in your Network?
45Current board agrees to learn about and try this approach
Have some funds for a circles pool of funds
Have some people willing to coach the circle(s)
Have a decent communications system (group email, zoom training and access, google docs to work on proposals collaboratively)
Readiness Checklist
46 Share these ideas with your current governing board and network participants (you will have access to this video)
Ask your network participants to suggest a burning (but small) operational issue. Have the governing board catalyze this first one: it needs to have a champion and evidence that other people would join them.
Have a coach from the governing board or staff help the group develop a proposal.
Make sure they send the proposal out to all network participants impacted giving a deadline for advice.
Help them craft a final proposal and send that out.
Support them as they implement the new policy.
Make sure that the policy is reviewed.
Set up a circle to decide how to implement circles fully. Consider setting up a pool of funds and soliciting 3-5 circle projects
Checklist for action
47A study group is forming that is working to
articulate new ideas about network governance, find case studies and develop support materials. If you are interested, put your email in chat and what in particular you are interested in.
How to Join In
48Web: www.networkweaver.com
ScoopIt: http://www.scoop.it/t/networks-and-network-weaving
Network Weaving Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/339757846085496/
June HolleyEmail: juneholley@gmail.com
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