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Index
1 Sociocracy: Why, What and Who?
1.1 The values under sociocracy
1.1.1 Organizations are living systems
1.1.2 Principles
1.1.3 Effectiveness and equivalence
1.1.4 What sociocracy feels like: Flow
1.2 The paradox of teaching self-governance
1.2.1 Design-principles vs. tools
1.2.2 Take what seems helpful – but the more the better
1.2.3 Change anything you want – by consent
1.3 Sociocracy in context
1.3.1 Brief history
1.3.2 Ally movements
1.4 How to use this manual
1.4.1 Online resources
1.4.2 How to give us feedback on this book
2 Organizational Structure
2.1 The circle
2.2 Empowering the circle: aims, domains and members
2.2.1 Aims
2.2.2 Domains
2.2.3 Membership
2.3 Operations and the internal structure of a circle: Roles
2.3.1 Circle roles
2.3.2 Operational roles
2.3.3 Terms
2.3.4 On rotating or sharing roles
2.4 Double-linking
2.4.1 Circular hierarchy
2.4.2 The psychological effect of double-linking
2.4.3 Is double-linking mandatory?
2.5 Types of circles
2.5.1 Basic circles of an implementation
2.5.2 The General Circle
2.5.3 The Mission cCrcle
2.5.4 Helping circles
2.5.5 A full-fledged structure
2.6 Transitions and variations
2.6.1 Growth
2.6.2 De-growth
2.6.3 Hand-offs and handovers
2.7 Other groups that meet
2.7.1 Gatherings, interest groups and communities of practice
2.7.2 Networks among organizations
2.8 Operations – doing the work
2.8.1 Coordinating operational work
2.8.2 Operational meetings
3 Making Policy Decisions
3.1 Why make policy?
3.1.1 How much policy should there be?
3.1.2 Case-by-case and general decisions
3.2 Decision-making methods
3.2.1 Other forms of decision making
3.2.2 The concept of consent
3.2.3 Range of tolerance
3.2.4 What are objections?
3.2.5 Questions about consent
3.3 Making policy – step by step
3.3.1 Measurement-driven process
3.3.2 The three phases of policy process
3.4 Improving the policy roll-out
3.4.1 Measurement
3.4.2 Defined feedback channels
3.5 Integrating objections: process
3.5.1 Understand
3.5.2 Explore options
3.5.3 Options for amendments
3.6 Creating and filling roles (selection process)
3.6.1 Creating roles
3.6.2 Selection process
3.6.3 Frequently asked questions about selections
3.6.4 Emotional challenges
3.6.5 Using the selection process for other decisions
4 Feedback and Learning
4.1 Basic concepts
4.1.1 Universal human needs
4.1.2 Personal strategies
4.1.3 Feelings: you can’t make me angry
4.1.4 Requests
4.2 Creating change
4.2.1 Beyond right and wrong lies creativity
4.2.2 Effective feedback
4.3 Compassionate governance is effective
4.3.1 Aims and policy
4.3.2 Personal aims and the organization’s aim
4.3.3 Objections, and social-emotional debt
4.4 Increasing feedback
4.4.1 Short feedback loops
4.4.2 Hearing from as many as possible – while keeping groups small
4.4.3 Input and information processing
4.4.4 Who to ask for input
4.4.5 When to ask during the policy process
4.4.6 Metrics in policy evaluation
4.5 Meeting evaluations
4.6 Performance reviews
4.6.1 Who is in the performance review circle?
4.6.2 Format
4.7 Self-repairing organizations
4.7.1 There is no right way of doing sociocracy
4.7.2 And there is no wrong way of doing sociocracy
5 How To Run A Sociocratic Meeting
5.1 Opening
5.1.1 Check-in
5.1.2 Administrative: ADMIN
5.2 Content
5.2.1 Consent to agenda
5.2.2 Content block: 3 desired outcomes
5.2.3 The flow of agenda items
5.2.4 Measure: Update backlog
5.3 Closing: meeting evaluation
5.4 Supporting documents: backlog, agenda, minutes
5.4.1 Backlog
5.4.2 Agenda
5.4.3 Meeting minutes
5.4.4 Taking notes
5.4.5 Making use of notes during the meeting
5.4.6 Approving minutes
5.4.7 Publishing minutes
5.5 Facilitation formats
5.5.1 Rounds
5.5.2 What kinds of rounds are there?
5.5.3 Facilitating rounds
5.5.4 Free Flow and popcorn
5.5.5 Turn and talk
5.6 Virtual meetings
5.6.1 Synchronous virtual meetings
5.6.2 Asynchronous decisions
6 Implementing Sociocracy
6.1 Thoughts about introducing sociocracy
6.1.1 Assume consent as decision-making method
6.1.2 Find companionship
6.1.3 Persist, lovingly
6.2 How to introduce sociocracy
6.2.1 Introducing sociocracy to an established organization - phases
6.2.2 Introducing sociocracy to an established organization - 27 steps
6.3 Starting a new organization
6.4 Implementing sociocracy in start-up organizations
6.4.1 Structures for small groups
6.4.2 Designing a new organizational structure
6.4.3 Generating the mission circle
6.4.4 Partial implementations
6.5 Volunteer organizations
6.6 Sociocracy in tiny groups
6.7 Organizations with few workers and many members
6.8 Legal issues
6.9 Sociocracy, ownership and control
6.9.1 Sociocracy and the distribution of profits, salaries and wages
6.10 Typical pitfalls in implementations
6.10.1 Issues that the organization had before
6.10.2 Power struggles
6.10.3 Lack of defined membership
6.10.4 Clarity of domains/aims
6.10.5 Paying too little attention
6.10.6 Logistics
6.11 Continuing education
6.11.1 An easy way to keep learning: live commentary
6.11.2 How to educate new members: onboarding
7 Appendix
7.1 About Sociocracy For All (SoFA)
7.2 About the authors
7.3 Resources
7.3.1 Literature
7.3.2 Other ways to learn
7.3.3 Charts and templates
7.5 Index
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