Course - Patterns of Decentralized Organizing

Mantra: You have to talk about it World based more on collaboration, mutual support Focus on small scale, individuals, relationships etc…

Topics

1. Mindset, Culture & Relationships in Decentralized Organizations
   • Self-management (mindset and skills)
   • Growth Culture (growth mindset, Deliberately Developmental Orgs)
   • Practices
     • How Do We Want to Be Together?
     • Incorporate developmental practices in daily structure
2. Psychological Safety in Decentralized Organizations
   • Building psychological safety cheat sheet
   • Formal Systems of Care
3. Collective Decision-Making
   • 4 Methods (Consensus, Consent, Advice, Mandate)
   • Building a Decision Protocol
   • Getting Unstuck

4. Remote Work Tools & Tips

5. Decentralized Organization Rhytms
   • When do you come together?
   • Retrospectives: stop, reflect, and learn
6. Decentralized Organization Roles & Accountability
   • How to assign roles?
   • Accountability Systems
     • **Instead of asking why someone hasn’t delivered, ask how they can be supported **
7. Money in Decentralized Orgs
   • Start with transparency
   • Unpacking money stories
8. Power Dynamics in Decentralized Orgs
   • Talk about it
   • Cultivate people’s power within
   • Limit Power over
9. Conflict & Feedback in Collectives
   • Agreement about norms, values and boundaries

Facilitating Exercises

• How do we want to be together?

  • Think of a moment when you were in a group that felt good to you
  • Other people write out what matters to you
  • The group agrees to incorporate those things
    • Be specific about what behaviors specifically create that environment
    • https://www.thehum.org/post/how-do-we-want-to-be-together

• Balcony moment

  • At the end of the call, reflect on how it felt, what you learned, what triggered you

• Troika Consulting

  • Step 1: client shares their challenge + consultants ask clarifying questions (5 min)
  • Step 2: consultants discuss while client has their camera+mic off (6 min)
  • Step 3: closing reflection from client & prep for next round (2 min)
  • You have 1 min between rounds to switch clients. Cycle thru clients in alphabetical order.

• Trigger log

• Course - Patterns of Decentralized Organizing - Journaling Exercises

• More exercises

Books & Articles

• Culture and Growth
  • Mindset - Carol Dweck
  • Book: An Everyone Culture

Deliberately Developmental Organizations

• Practices and Structure
  • Everyone’s Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
  • My experience with a Deliberately Developmental Organization

Psychological Safety, Care, Pods

• Relationships and Emotions
  • The Art of Empathy by Karen McLaren
  • Gini Handbook
• Pods
  • Loomio Care
  • Enspiral Pods Guide
  • Gini Handbook 2

course Decentralized Organizations