Purpose: A capable team for every meaningful mission
  • August Public Inc

    Purpose:

    A capable team for every meaningful mission

    Domains:

    • All August Operations
    • All August Property

    Accountabilities:

    • Improving how people, teams, and organizations work together to change themselves, the lives of the people they serve, their communities, and the world for the better
    • Protecting a 20% time allocation for the President role-filler
    • Growing 20% in annual gross revenue year over year from 2022 to 2025, based on the previous year's target ($4,560,000 in 2022)
  • Director

    for President

    Purpose:

    A capable August

    Domains:

    • Proposals to Stockholders on edits to:
    • Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Constitution
    • August’s Purpose
    • Equity Policy, including any/all shareholder agreements

    Accountabilities:

    • Counseling our business on the “nuts and bolts”
    • Steering toward purpose and values
    • Proposing to Shareholders financial decisions above $150,000USD, excluding compensation
    • Representing August in public
    • Expanding our business/client network
    • Expanding our talent network
  • Lead Link

    Purpose:

    A capable team for every meaningful mission

    Domains:

    • Role assignments within the Circle

    Accountabilities:

    • Assigning Partners to the Circle’s Roles; monitoring the fit; offering feedback to enhance fit; and re-assigning Roles to other Partners when useful for enhancing fit
    • Allocating the Circle’s resources across its various Projects and/or Roles
    • Establishing priorities and Strategies for the Circle
    • Defining metrics for the circle
    • Structuring the Governance of the Circle to enact its Purpose and Accountabilities
    • Removing constraints within the Circle to the Super-Circle enacting its Purpose and Accountabilities
  • President

    Purpose:

    Representing API's purpose

    Accountabilities:

    • Overseeing board compliance with the law, the Articles of Incorporation, these bylaws, and the board’s own decisions
    • Ensuring that the board functions as a team, as defined in the Constitution
    • Executing agreements requiring the signature API’s senior executive officer
    • Performing the duties of other executive officers if they are unable or unwilling to complete them as stated in these bylaws or at the direction of the board
    • Completing all general accountabilities of the API Team Lead
    • Purpose: Holding, translating, and clarifying our purpose
    • Sensing: Listening actively, asking questions, surfacing other opinions, observing closely, and stepping back to see the larger system in order to identify emerging issues and recurring patterns in our organization
    • Focusing: on the broadest possible perspective, attending to things that affect the whole organization, not things that could be pushed down into other roles
    • Leading: Bringing people together and leading a process to make progress in times extraordinary uncertainty and crisis, particularly in areas where the domain of the work is unclear or undelegated to other teams or roles
    • Improving: Gathering feedback on your performance each trimester and integrating that feedback to improve. Giving feedback to API team leads regularly.
    • Reporting: Maintaining a regular cadence of communication with our advisors
    • Role-modeling: living our core values
Purpose: A capable team for every meaningful mission
  • Lead Link

    Purpose:

    A capable team for every meaningful mission

    Domains:

    • Role assignments within the Circle

    Accountabilities:

    • Assigning Partners to the Circle’s Roles; monitoring the fit; offering feedback to enhance fit; and re-assigning Roles to other Partners when useful for enhancing fit
    • Allocating the Circle’s resources across its various Projects and/or Roles
    • Establishing priorities and Strategies for the Circle
    • Defining metrics for the circle
    • Structuring the Governance of the Circle to enact its Purpose and Accountabilities
    • Removing constraints within the Circle to the Super-Circle enacting its Purpose and Accountabilities
  • Partner

    Purpose:

    The long-term health and success of our purpose

    Domains:

    • Partner selection process and Partner Panel
    • Bonus Policy

    Accountabilities:

    • Forging long-lasting client and network relationships that help August create sales and partnership opportunities.
    • Keeping each other accountable for being good owners; nobody is in charge here; this is your business
    • Developing August’s long term vision to clarify our growth plan and other emerging parts of the business.
    • Stewarding new/big investments by taking on ambiguous new roles and bets.
    • Keeping the business profitable by understanding our financial health and making proposals related to our capital expenses (reinvestment, taxes, bonus distribution, payments, etc).
    • Connecting the dots by looking across P&L, growth, culture, and people strategy.
    • Driving our growth by contributing to at least 50% of our annual sales.
    • Making major decisions related to our people strategy that might include changes to August’s compensation system, hiring strategy, and membership (e.g. potential layoffs).
    • Deciding on bonus distribution guided by our bonus policy.
    • Designing and leading a partner selection process that aligns with August’s values, and team and business needs.
    • Maintaining a regular cadence of communication with non-partner pals.
  • Rep Link

    from Recruiting

    Purpose:

    Within the Super-Circle, the Rep Link holds the Purpose of the Sub-Circle; within the Sub-Circle, the Rep Link’s Purpose is: Tensions relevant to process in the Super-Circle channeled out and resolved.

    Accountabilities:

    • Providing visibility to the Super-Circle into the health of the Sub-Circle, including reporting on any metrics or checklist items assigned to the whole Sub-Circle
    • Removing constraints within the broader Organization that limit the Sub-Circle
    • Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Sub-Circle Circle Members, and discerning those appropriate to process in the Super-Circle
  • Summit Guide

    for Summit 23 (Sept 2023)

    Purpose:

    To facilitate an engaging and productive Summit week

    Domains:

    • Summit week agenda
    • Summit budget

    Accountabilities:

    • Creating a full week agenda prior to Summit week
    • Managing the predetermined Summit budget
    • Facilitating the team throughout Summit
    • Coordinating activities, spaces and meals during Summit
    • Reviewing and understanding previous summit agendas and budgets
    • Bringing spending plans to API Spending meetings
Purpose: Ensuring a healthy culture that is true to August’s values
  • Development Advocate (multi-filled)

    for Max and Mike

    Purpose:

    Support gustos to intentionally developing their capacity at August

    Accountabilities:

    • Helping gusto identify resources to develop their capacities
    • Helping gusto identify stakeholders from whom feedback needs to be gathered
    • Supporting gusto in scheduling feedback moments including GBOP, Capacity Check, Leveling Up Decision Making, and Delivery Feedback
    • Advocating for the gusto to gain opportunities that support the development of their capacity
    • Gathering feedback about the gusto and sharing it in an appropriate way
    • Supporting the gusto in contributing to August at their highest possible capacity
    • Tracking and reporting attendance at GBOP, Capacity Development, and Leveling Up sessions
    • Reading all Development policies closely, and reviewing GBOP, Capacity Development, and Leveling Up session agendas prior to calling the session
    • Monitoring engagement and identifying ways to help when needed
    • Communicating with @membership_committee when a member's performance raises questions about viability of long-term Membership at August
    • Initiating a conversation with Gusto at least annually about whether you are the best Development Advocate for them based on their development needs and support them in identifying a new DA if a change makes the most sense
  • Member (all members at August)

    Purpose:

    To advance the August Mission of "A capable team for every meaningful mission"

    Accountabilities:

    • Fulfilling duties as contained in Article 1, Section 4.1 of the August Constitution
    • Deciding with purpose: Using our Purpose as the primary decision making filter for all of your decisions, bring an ever questioning eye to whether or not our work, clients, and focus really fulfills our larger purpose, continually both support and push the status quo to help us evolve forward as a purpose driven business
    • Wellbeing: Promoting each other’s well-being and recognizing the importance of a healthy balance between the needs of the business and the personal life of its members
    • Organizing: Participating in, contributing to, and defining the way we organize and work; Identifying ways to address existing structural flaws and to the development of the larger cultural system via proposing new ideas, and working to improve existing systems; Representing the needs of the business through governance, elections, voting, summit etc
    • Driving: for awareness around power dynamics and biases that get in our way of functioning as a healthy system, hold team members accountable for the role they play within the system (including yourself), particularly those who hold “power” due to experience, tenure, gender or race, continually keep a pulse check on where members are and how their personal status syncs up/impacts the larger work environment for others
    • Developing: Contributing to the development of fellow individual team members via thoughtful, constructive feedback and continually improving yourself
  • Membership Committee

    for role filling expires Oct 2021

    Purpose:

    Good decisions, timely action, and care regarding membership changes at August

    Domains:

    • Final decision on terminating a team member's employment
    • Exit agreement and terms
    • Resolution process administration and agreement filing
    • Investigation process administration (when triggered by a member)
    • Final decision on membership changes regarding location, salaried vs hourly pay, part-time vs full-time, etc.
    • Edits to employment contracts or issuance of new employment contracts

    Accountabilities:

    • Collecting and documenting all relevant data and details from all relevant parties when a grievance or violation is raised
    • Once brought in either through Conflict-Resolution Process, through filing a grievance, or by the pal proposing a change in their membership status: Deciding what actions need to be taken to resolve issues and ensuring that these actions are taken, including consulting August Advisory Board Members and other external perspectives when requested or deemed necessary for effective resolution
    • Clearly communicating and establishing a timeline for action on all final actions or decisions with relevant team member(s), and ensuring comprehensive communication to all stakeholders
    • Soliciting information from the local market HR/Ops, Legal and finance role-fillers and, if necessary, and seeking additional HR/Legal guidance
    • Conducting mediated conversations with the people involved, when asked, and/or directing to external mediation resources
    • Conducting final/termination conversations with the August team member if it is decided by the committee or the member that after all data provided (or when applicable, going through the conflict resolution process) that the team member will no longer remain at August
    • Conducting an exit interview after 2-4 weeks and sharing the lessons learned with the full August team (Exit Interview Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19pj8H94G_icNBSZ_ESo2S1DL_VLSLMvqm4nsDsP3NqY/edit?usp=sharing)
    • Collecting and documenting all relevant data and details from all relevant parties when a membership change is proposed
Purpose: The right people in the right place for our work
  • Facilitator

    Purpose:

    Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.

    Accountabilities:

    • Facilitating the Circle’s constitutionally-required meetings
    • Auditing the meetings and records of Sub-Circles as needed, and declaring a Process Breakdown upon discovering a pattern of behavior that conflicts with the rules of the Constitution
  • Hiring Advocate

    Purpose:

    A positive and equitable candidate experience

    Accountabilities:

    • Collecting evaluation info and feedback
    • Setting the candidate up for success
    • Proposing either to make offer or not
    • Closing
    • Conducting the 1st Interview (and automatically becoming HA if you conduct the 1st interview)
    • Confirming start date, inclusive of any Visa or other immigration items.
    • Scheduling and booking candidate travel
    • Designing and scheduling Chemistry test, including deciding which Gustos should attend, which Chemistry test (Part A or B) the candidate should take and answering any questions the candidate might have regarding the session
    • Attending the Chemistry test to gain critical key data to inform the proposal to make an offer and to act as a familiar face for the candidate
    • Preparing and sending offer letter (including benefits breakdown and relocation policy, if necessary) to candidate based on final decision with the support of @Operations_&Finance and @Operations&_Finance
    • Sending the first onboarding email (a Mixmax template) that initiates the handoff to the @Onboarding Buddy
    • T7 Specific: Engaging and securing 2 new Board Members as prioritized by @Board, alongside the person that has the relationship
    • Sending a rejection email to the candidate (anywhere in hiring process after 1st interview)
  • Interviewer (Multi-filled)

    Purpose:

    Conducting awesome interviews that bring the best out in candidates and illustrate how wonderful August is

    Accountabilities:

    • Interviewing candidates
    • Adhering to the Candidate Interview Prep policy
    • Adhering to our Hiring Process policy
    • Answering candidate questions
    • Telling the August story to candidates
    • Collecting and documenting feedback for candidates
  • Rep Link

    Purpose:

    Within the Super-Circle, the Rep Link holds the Purpose of the Sub-Circle; within the Sub-Circle, the Rep Link’s Purpose is: Tensions relevant to process in the Super-Circle channeled out and resolved.

    Accountabilities:

    • Providing visibility to the Super-Circle into the health of the Sub-Circle, including reporting on any metrics or checklist items assigned to the whole Sub-Circle
    • Removing constraints within the broader Organization that limit the Sub-Circle
    • Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Sub-Circle Circle Members, and discerning those appropriate to process in the Super-Circle
Purpose: A profitable business offering that delivers transformative change to leading organizations.
  • Accounts Team Member

    Purpose:

    Unspecified

    Accountabilities:

    • Delivering assigned client and internal work – see the Actively Delivering column on August's Trello https://trello.com/b/Pr2nm9Ow
    • Pursuing new and re-up work using the Sales Habits defined here: https://app.glassfrog.com/policies/11272238
    • Representing human/money resource needs to prioritization pals
  • Client Contracts

    Purpose:

    Unspecified

    Accountabilities:

    • Reviewing MSA’s and SOW’s and proposing edits as needed
    • Coordinating with API Finance and accountant
    • Communicating invoicing and payment terms to accountant
    • Keeping track of all current MSAs and expiration dates
  • Client Engagement Lead

    for AIMCo, ADSK

    Purpose:

    Well-delivered work and lasting and positive client relationships that lead to more work

    Accountabilities:

    • Hosting an internal team project kickoff and regular internal team meeting cadence
    • Leading the Active Allyship Procedure if the code of conduct is not being met by the client
    • Having a pulse on client satisfaction at all times and addressing gaps in client satisfaction
    • Having a pulse on delivery team member satisfaction and addressing any gaps in satisfaction or role fit
    • Contextualizing and communicating relevant client intel and feedback to the team in a timely manner
    • Securing the next biggest extension and/or expansion with the client
    • Identifying appropriate development opportunities on projects for other pals (esp. Newer or cap level 1-3 level pals) to be able to take the lead on parts of a project that showcase their talents and/or are a growth opportunity
    • Communicating the resourcing needs of the work to the prioritization pals
    • Revisiting the goals and deliverables from the signed SOW and resetting/communicating shifts in goals and deliverables as needed to the client
  • Deal Owner

    Purpose:

    Move deals effectively through our sales pipeline

    Accountabilities:

    • Selling deals that align with our current accounts strategy (https://app.glassfrog.com/organizations/5170/orgnav/roles/10929034/overview)
    • Setting realistic expectations with clients regarding WHEN and WHO (e.g. a scope starts ideally no sooner than 4 weeks after signing; and getting a client comfortable with flexible resource outcomes - it's not always you, the deal owner, who delivers)
    • Keeping your deals up to date in Hubspot in line with our Hubspot Stage Definitions & Revenue Projections Policy
      https://app.glassfrog.com/organizations/5170/orgnav/policies/11194898
    • Tagging @prioritizationpals in Slack with updates related to sales and resourcing
    • Creating a resourcing card (https://trello.com/c/1D7ZQOnR) as early as ready or need help, but no later than Scoping
    • Scoping in a way that supports spotlight opportunities for pals, whenever possible
    • Aiming, as much as possible, for a minimum deal size of $75K (3 cycles, 1 person @ 50%)
    • Ensuring the prospective deal meets our Lead Acceptance & Qualification policy criteria and starting a conversation when the prospective deal looks it might not meet the policy criteria.
    • Pairing with a sales team member for all deal pitching and closing
    • Scheduling and hosting an internal team kickoff
  • Facilitator

    Purpose:

    Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.

    Accountabilities:

    • Facilitating the Circle’s constitutionally-required meetings
    • Auditing the meetings and records of Sub-Circles as needed, and declaring a Process Breakdown upon discovering a pattern of behavior that conflicts with the rules of the Constitution
Purpose: Make work life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive
  • ABLtd. Director

    Purpose:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/being-a-company-director

    Domains:

    • F&L relationship (London entity compliance)

    Accountabilities:

    • UK: Keeping company records and reporting changes to Companies House and HMRC in partnership with Fitz and Law
    • Complying with these responsibilities & duties - https://www.gov.uk/guidance/being-a-company-director