General Company Circle
Customer Facing Circle
Holacracy and beyond
dG Backbone
Scalable Products
CTA development and delivery
Brand & Ops Ensemble
Purpose:
Rewriting the future of organization - Catalyzing the evolution of wholesome organizations.
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Scalable Products
Purpose:
dG Expertise broadly accessible without direct interactionAccountabilities:
- Building, marketing and selling high-value & high-impact online products based on in-depth understanding of dG expertise and the needs of dGs favorite customers
- Continuously developing a „state of the art“ understanding of online marketing and using it to reach dG’s favorite customers
- Conducting in-depth interviews with customers and @Evolutionary Catalyst or other relevant roles to ever deeper understand customer needs and dG's approach & expertise
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Secretary
Purpose:
Stabilize the Circle’s constitutionally-required records and meetings.Domains:
- All governance records of the Circle
Accountabilities:
- Scheduling regular Tactical Meetings for the Circle
- Capturing and publishing Tactical Meeting outputs
- Scheduling Governance Meetings for the Circle
- Capturing and publishing the outputs of the Circle’s Governance Process
- Interpreting the Constitution and anything under its authority upon request
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Strategic Alignment
Purpose:
dG has a clear and energizing strategic alignment, using all its resources most effectively towards dG's purpose, flow in our collaboration and positive impact in organizationsAccountabilities:
- Creating and maintaining a strategizing process that clarifies strategic decision-making + guardrails as reference point for all GCC subcircles
- Establishing a level of involvement, communication and feedback loops with the whole organization to strengthen commitment for dGs strategic directions
- Developing and refining strategic clarity from the perspective of what’s good for dG and its environments (integrating the following perspectives: current and future partners, dG’s highest potential, favorite customer, mother earth’s calling, medium- and long-term)
- Defining scope, assignment and staff for Strategic Council Days to coordinate focus and design
- Broken record: reminding dG again and again of the strategic decisions which have been made as well as the process to change those should strong tensions arise
- Defining dG’s favorite customer & communicating within the organization
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Strategic Alignment Pacemaker
Purpose:
Strategic Alignment happensAccountabilities:
- Creating and updating clear documents and artifacts that articulate the current strategic direction, vision & process
- Organizing Strategic Alignment meetings
Purpose:
Populate next:land!
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CTA development and delivery
Purpose:
All members of organizations resolve their conflicts and personal tensions in a timely manner, trust that they are heard and understood and find solutions that work for all involved.Accountabilities:
- Pricing and Discounts of CTA Activities
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Creative Spark
Purpose:
Opportunities turned into projects for dGAccountabilities:
- Engaging in initial client dialogues together with and in support of other EvoCats
- Crafting approaches for supporting EvoCats in taking the lead position asap in the Process
- Creating on the job learning opportunities re acquisition work
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Ecosystem Partner Relais
Purpose:
A lively and mutually beneficial relationship between dG and ecosystem partnersAccountabilities:
- Scheduling regular talks (at least once a year) w/ respective ecosystem partner to evaluate relation and potential
- Acting as Rep link for respective ecosystem partner, for tensions concerning the partnership
- Granting discounts for a specific public training to respective ecosystem partner after integrating feedback of @Pricing Strategy and the role organizing the event
- Processing tensions of dG as an organization with the respective partner
- Inviting and removing respective partner to and from relevant slack channels as determined in ecosystem partnership
- Pitching relevant roles to publish and remove a website profile of ecosystem partner when beneficial to client projects
- Inviting and removing ecosystem partner to and from relevant staff folders on g-drive
- Deciding about when to start and end an ecosystem partnership
- Pitching relevant role to provide a dG email address if beneficial to client projects
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dG Approach Topic Owner
Purpose:
Inspiring training and consulting materialsAccountabilities:
- Maximizing the customer value of our services by collecting and channeling user feedback (of @Evolutionary Catalyst and clients)
- Developing, maintaining and communicating a vision for the topic in focus
- Monitoring and communicating the profitability of topic related activities
- Maintaining an up to date development backlog in collaboration with @Chief Editor
- Initializing revision processes regularly for respective topics and confluence sites and pitching corresponding projects to @Chief Editor
- Onboarding new dG members to the topic and the documentation on confluence
- Refining and sharing dG experience and other relevant aspects for content inputs to @Content Strategy & Creation (text/pics/slides etc. for LinkedIn posts, website blogposts,; webinars etc.)
- Deciding on event landscape & sales funnel – from small intro webinar to year-long program – for the respective topic, integrating objections from @Brand Identity and their topic collaborators
- [If there’s disagreement around who should staff which event:] Making the final decision on delivery staff for events.
Purpose:
Transformative trainings that transmit Holacracy and dG's approach towards structured organisational frameworks and catalyze the capacities it requires.
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soulOS Development
Purpose:
A scalable 4-spaces way for reliably getting to next:landAccountabilities:
- There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
Purpose:
Lean and legally compliant finance processes and partner relations
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CTA Mediator / Facilitator
Purpose:
The enlightened state after interpersonal conflicts are solved in a wholesome way, contributing to the personal growth of allAccountabilities:
- Facilitating “Townhall” and “Clear the Air” Meetings
- Mediating conflicts on request by partners
- Providing partners with non-judgemental and growth-oriented feedback on conflict behavior - either on request by respective partner or on own initiative
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dG Member
Purpose:
Well balanced individual and organizational needsAccountabilities:
- Processing individual tensions in the organization
- Keeping partner agreements up to date
Purpose:
dG Expertise broadly accessible without direct interaction
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BM2 Marketer
Purpose:
Easy access to our online coursesAccountabilities:
- Setting up experiments to figure out which marketing channels are most useful in marketing scalable products
- Selecting the channels that deliver the best outcomes
- Setting up a content strategy for the marketing of scalable products and harmonizing it with the overall brand strategy of dwarfs and Giants
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Circle Lead
Purpose:
dG Expertise broadly accessible without direct interactionAccountabilities:
- There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
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Content Factory
Purpose:
Exciting scalable contentAccountabilities:
- Drafting, writing scripts
- Creating or bringing in visuals (slides, pictures, videos, music) to support content/message
- Gathering feedback on content and form, and using this information for improving the product
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Customer Service
Purpose:
Well maintained customer relationsAccountabilities:
- Assembling and mailing material (e.g. online course packages) to online course subscribers
- Answering questions regarding our online courses to customers
- Developing the online course subscriber community by launching engaging activities (e.g. sending out e-mails, posting in our user forum)
- Publishing FAQs about our online courses and regularly updating the list
- Collecting and compiling feedback from all customer interactions and channeling it to the responsible product development roles regularly
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Digital Infrastructure for Online Courses
Purpose:
An easy to use and cost efficient software environment for our online coursesAccountabilities:
- Choosing and maintaining our delivery platform for our online courses
- Setting up payment & reporting infrastructure that meet customer needs and work well with internal reporting and accounting as well as marketing / CRM needs
- Delivering relevant information about processed data to @dG Backbone
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Scalable Product Owner
Purpose:
High quality scalable productsAccountabilities:
- Creating and maintaining a transparent document that tracks all the tests and experiments currently running
- Creating and updating elegant structures for client feedback
- Deciding on testing and evaluation focus (incl. customer focus and scope)
- Sharing status quo & developments of SP work with relevant roles in dG, gathering recommendations and potential objections – for better quality and acceptance of our products
- Maximizing the customer value of our products by collecting and channeling user feedback into backlog items (of dG members, customers and other stakeholders)
- Developing, maintaining and communicating a product vision for the respective product
- Monitoring and communicating the profitability of the product in collaboration with other relevant roles
- Maintaining an up to date product backlog
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Testing Team Shepherd
Purpose:
UnspecifiedAccountabilities:
- Supporting testing teams in their journey through the course from set-up to reflection after completion
- Gathering feedback and answering questions based on structure provided by Client Testing & Evaluation Strategy
- Acquiring and choosing the teams to conduct the tests
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Tin Can Pricer
Purpose:
Sustainable scalable productsAccountabilities:
- Scanning the market for comparable products and offers, especially regarding pricing
- Publishing pricing structure and discount options for scalable products - to be offered to dG clients as well as to other potential buyers - after gathering the perspective of @Pricing Strategy and @Engagement Lead
Purpose:
All members of organizations resolve their conflicts and personal tensions in a timely manner, trust that they are heard and understood and find solutions that work for all involved.
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CTA Business Development
Purpose:
Healthy and impactful unfolding of the CTA approach in the world and inside of dGAccountabilities:
- Creating, communicating and continuously evolving the long-term strategy regarding CTA activities
- Creating new exciting offers based on market feedback and our own ideas
- Orchestrating resources to best fit market and client needs, incl. skill & capacity building of @Evolutionary Catalyst and external @CTA Facilitator
- Making sure that the CTA activities of the circle are at least at break even each year
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CTA Engagement Lead
Purpose:
Awesome coordination of CTA consulting projects towards next:landAccountabilities:
- Contacting current leads (=potential clients) on request by @Staffing Sparring
- Developing cutting-edge proposals (incl. pricing in accordance with @Pricing_Strategy) upon request of a customer.
- Selecting suitable Evolutionary Catalyst or Project Partners for client projects after integrating feedback of @Staffing Sparring
- Contracting with the clients on an ongoing basis to align expectations & logistics and adjust agreements as engagement needs evolve, saving related documents/emails projects
- Scheduling and facilitating regular staff meetings 1) for mutual updating of project-relevant information in the particular project staff and 2) for developing/improving the quality of the consulting strategy/work in a particular consulting project 3) for learning purposes & know-how transfer
- Storing relevant project documents and emails directly on dG Google drive preferably in Google-doc format under the respective project folder
- Providing relevant odoo data to Project Backbone (Accounts, Projects, Sales Order Information)
- Making agreements regarding the daily rate with involved project partners - taking into account the current Ecosystem Partnership Framework - and integration of feedback from Pricing Strategy, if required.
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CTA Facilitator Pool
Purpose:
Enough CTA delivery resources available to sustainably meet all client needsAccountabilities:
- Building and maintaining a pool of CTA facilitators who are ready to rumble
- Adapting agreed fees for facilitators
- Giving recommendations for staffing of public trainings after request by @Undefined_Role
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CTA Umbrella Organisation
Purpose:
CTA is alive and spreading with and beyond dGAccountabilities:
- Meeting regularly with other CTA trainers, exchanging good practice and clarifying cross-organizational questions
- Sharing relevant updates with the circle
- Taking care of the needs of dG and taking care of the needs of the umbrella organization and finding strategies that work for both
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Circle Lead
Purpose:
All members of organizations resolve their conflicts and personal tensions in a timely manner, trust that they are heard and understood and find solutions that work for all involved.Accountabilities:
- There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
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Scalable Products
Purpose:
dG Expertise broadly accessible without direct interactionAccountabilities:
- There are no accountabilities defined for this role.
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Secretary
Purpose:
Stabilize the Circle’s constitutionally-required records and meetings.Domains:
- All governance records of the Circle
Accountabilities:
- Scheduling regular Tactical Meetings for the Circle
- Capturing and publishing Tactical Meeting outputs
- Scheduling Governance Meetings for the Circle
- Capturing and publishing the outputs of the Circle’s Governance Process
- Interpreting the Constitution and anything under its authority upon request
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WTF is CTA?
Purpose:
A clear set of practices that deeply transforms culture at dG and in client organisations towards more trust, honesty, care and quick resolution of personal & tribal tensionsAccountabilities:
- Defining & publishing standards and skill-levels for the Clear the Air approach, continuously developing it by integrating learning from „the field“
- On request: Giving partners feedback on their CTA skill level
Purpose:
All internal functions of dG are cared for and running smoothly
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Basic Self Organization Buddy
Purpose:
Easy and smooth competence build up for self organization newbiesAccountabilities:
- supporting Holacracy newbies in focus in building up Holacracy knowledge and abilities in a short time
- scheduling regular sessions to support tensions harvesting, channeling of tensions, crafting of proposals and to answer questions related to Holacracy for Holacracy newbies
- offering GTD coaching for partners new to self organization
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Brand Identity
Purpose:
Consistent, cohesive expressions of the brand dG that resonate with our members and engage our favourite customersAccountabilities:
- Co-creating and iterating the dG Styleguide with @Corporate Design & Production and communicating guidelines to help dG members stay on brand
- Acting as sparring partner for brand-related initiatives like @General Company Circle or brand projects
- Defining tonality and brand voice to engage favourite customers
- Create fundamental content items that describe the very core of dG and its purpose
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Funnel Wizard
Purpose:
All of dGs topics have free first touchpoints for prospective clients that make them say “damn, that’s exactly what I need”Accountabilities:
- Developing Top- and Middle of Funnel-concepts (TOFU & MOFU) with respective @dG Approach Topic Owner s – from customer pain to webinar or mini-course ideas to next steps in the funnel after the webinar
- Delivering a smooth experience for @dG Approach Topic Owner / @Evolutionary Catalyst in creating and hosting a webinar, incl. providing feedback on webinar delivery
- Writing all needed marketing texts, gathering feedback from @Brand Identity and respective @dG Approach Topic Owner
- Deploying automated signup experiences, incl. easily accessible participant lists
- Providing @Content Strategy & Creation with usable content around live events
- Proactively pitching @Corporate Design & Production for Illustrations and design checks – as early as possible
- Updating Topic Roadmap and pro-actively communicating webinar dates in the organization
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Speaker
Purpose:
Spreading dG's purpose through inspiring talksAccountabilities:
- Holding inspiring speeches that share dG insights and strengthen the brand of dG
- Informing circle ahead of time about upcoming event participations worth spreading by posting event & date on #tealevents Slack channel, triggering @Content Strategy & Creation to publish date on dG channels and sharing live pictures/updates from the event itself (if possible)
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Story Writer
Purpose:
Codifying dG experience and practice into inspiring publicationsAccountabilities:
- Writing publications, blog posts to share dGs experience and practice in expressing our purpose
- Publishing content on individual channel (e.g. LinkedIn Blog, Medium Account) or triggering @Website Coordinator to publish content on dG website
- Sending link(s) to @Content Strategy & Creation in order to disseminate content on dG public channels, regardless of platform (individual or dG)