In traditional business enterprises, supervisors and managers need to get approval for any decision. This causes delay and stagnation. Using holacracy, decisions are made based on collaboration with peers who have insight and knowledge of the problem and the solution. Information can be extracted to make a sound business decision. This engages everyone to take ownership of the problem so that business can succeed without delay. Management sets the boundaries and limitations so that the organization is not placed into jeopardy. This a new way of thinking so that the human talent is engaged and empowered, companies are more profitable, and customers are satisfied with the improve delivery of service or output of product. In the health and safety consulting business, our staff of CIHs and CSPs define the problems and develop the solutions so that business can be more sustainable by lowering their risk and limiting their liability. It also helps meet regulatory obligations and insurance requirements.
6. Flexible organizational
structure….With clear
roles and accountabilities
More autonomy to teams
and individuals….Individuals
solve issues directly without
bureaucracy
Efficient meeting formats
geared toward action and
eliminating over-analysis
Unique decision-making
process to continuously
evolve the organization’s
structure.
7. Introducing Holacracy
A set of design principles and business
practices for organizing around a purpose
1. Agile and adaptive
2. Distributed authority
3. Disciplined and data-driven
8. Holacracy
How It Works
Organizational Structure
Implementation
Organizational Control
Core Practices
Shared Language & Meaning
10. How It Works
In Traditional
Organizations
Job descriptions
Each person has exactly one job. Job
descriptions are imprecise, rarely
updated, and often irrelevant.
Delegated Authority
Managers loosely delegate authority.
Ultimately, their decision always
trump.
Big Re-Orgs
The org structure is rarely revisited,
mandated from the top.
Office Politics
Implicit rules slow down change and
favor people “in the know”.
With
Holacracy
Roles
Roles are defined around the work,
not people, and are updated
regularly. People fill several roles.
Distributed Authority
Authority is truly distributed to
teams and roles. Decisions are made
locally.
Rapid Iterations
The org structure is regularly
updated via small iterations. Every
team self-organizes.
Transparent Rules
Everyone is bound by the same rules,
CEO included. Rules are visible to all.
11. Holacracy In The
World
Organizational Consciousness
The Organizational Holacracy
The I of Organization
Worldwide Holarctic Governance
The We of Organization
Towards a Sustainable World
18. The Promise of
Holacracy
Processing any tension, sensed by anyone
anywhere in the organization, into
increasing clarity and evolution toward
purpose, rapidly, reliably, and continuously.
21. Dynamic Steering
1. Any issue can be revisited at any
time
2. Workable decision
3. Present tensions
22. Let’s Try It: Simulation
Setup
Welcome to “The Better Way
Company” which provides training & coaching
for the “Better Way” method
The company has just adopted
Holacracy…
… and there are lots of tensions to process …
24. Governance Meeting
Structure
Check-in
Building the agenda
Processing agenda items
Item 1
Item 2
Etc.
Check-out
One tension at a time, by
one person at a time
25. Workable In 5-6 Steps
1. Proposal*
2. Clarifying questions
3. Reaction round
4. Amendments or clarifications*
5. Objection round
6. Integration of valid objections (if any)
* Only the owner of the tension speaks here
26. Objection or no
Objection?
We’re going to try it, unless...
... You have data...
... that it creates a new
tension...
... for one of your roles!
27. Implementing
Holacracy
Adopt the Holacracy Constitution
Define the initial structure
Initiate regular tactical and governance
meetings
Train internal facilitators
Offer additional training and coaching as
needed
28. The Holacracy
Constitution
“This Constitution documents
the core rules, structure, and
processes of the Holacracy
‘operating system’ for governing
and managing an organization. It
provides a critical foundation for an
organization wishing to use
Holacracy, by anchoring the shift of
power required in concrete and
documented ‘rules of the game’,
which everyone involved can
reference and rely upon.”
29. Holacracy in Contrast With
Traditional Management
Traditional
Management
Centralized
Managers
Design
Predict and control
Tension = problem
Holacracy
Distributed
Self-management
Evolution
Experiment and
adapt
Tension = fuel
Hinweis der Redaktion
This is often what we think of when we think about ‘organization’ – Holacracy is pretty much the opposite of this
When it comes to organization, it often seems like there’s really only one way: a management hierarchy. You can tweak it and hack it and polish it all you want, but the basic principles still apply (division between management and execution or thinking and doing, span of control, concentration of power, etc.)
Holacracy is a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss.
The work is actually more structured than in a conventional organization, just differently so.
With Holacracy, there is a clear set of rules and processes for how a team breaks up its work, and defines its roles with clear responsibilities and expectations.