Nestr aims to support you in manifesting your purpose using self-organisation. This means you will no longer rely on a management hierarchy to make decisions but will have some form of explicit agreements on how decisions are made. Nestr support many different ways of setting this up. So weather you use Sociocracy, Holacracy, Teal practices or some other form of role based work, Nestr supports it. And across these different ways to self-organise, there are some common practices.
In all cases, you'll use roles and circles to express how accountability is distributed throughout your organisation.
Every role/circle will be made up of:
Name
Best to use something that is easy to remember. e.g.: "Blogger"
Purpose
A phrase that inspires whoever is assigned to that Role to know what is expected in the broadest scope. e.g.: "An blog that amuses readers with inspiring content"
Accountabilities
A list of ongoing activities that the person on that Role is expected to be doing from time to time. e.g.: "Writing posts to the blog"
Domains
Domains where that Role has exclusive control and possibly, policies to access that domains. If another Role needs access they can ask the domain owning Role to impact it. Or perhaps the owning role has published a policy on how to impact the domain. Ex.: "Blog admin functions"
when you enable self-organization in nestr, we'll automatically add some common core roles to each circle you create. We'll follow accepted definitions of these core roles dependent on the type of self-organisation you have selected for your workspace. In most cases they will look something like this:
Circle Lead
Generally represents the initiative starter or someone appointed to lead the strategy of the circle. Whoever is on this Role is responsible for structuring the circle and inviting new members into other Roles. Usually appointed from the outer circle.
Facilitator
Facilitates regular circle meeting and can also give coaching and support on self-organization. This role is usually elected.
Secretary
Focused on giving clarity on the agreements and organizational structure, also registers the circle meeting outcomes (like new projects, roles etc.). It's usually an elected role.
Rep Link
Represents the circle members and needs on external circle meetings. This is usually and elected role.
You can configure which roles to use in your workspace settings and can even add custom roles if the default setup does not serve your needs.
Any circle member in Nestr can propose changes to the structure/governance of your organisation. This is one of the core principles of self-organisation.
In Nestr is it quite simple to propose a change to any role, circle or policy.
There you will be able to select what you would like to propose.
The proposal page has a few parts to it:
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