DYNAMIC GOVERNANCE

WHAT IS IT?

Dynamic governance is the antidote to the burnout every owner, manager, supervisor and many times staff members feel every day in most restaurant environments. We all know the feeling. It's when you feel like you're taking on literally everything and very few people around you are in a position to help.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Dynamic governance redistributes the tasks and decision making that lies on the shoulders of a few, to the interested team members who want to take on new responsibilities and training.

WHERE DOES IT APPLY?

Dynamic Governance as an organizational method has been applied around the world by different organizations – among them corporations, small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and colleges.

7 Principles of Dynamic Governance

Effectiveness

Devote time only to what brings you closer towards achieving your organization’s overall objectives, so that you can make the best use of your limited time, energy and resources.

Consent

Raise, seek out and resolve objections to decisions and actions, so that you can reduce the potential for undesirable consequences and discover worthwhile ways to improve.

Empiricism

Test all assumptions you rely on through experiments and continuous revision, so that you learn fast, make sense of things and navigate complexity as effectively as you can.

Continuous Improvement

Regularly review the outcome of what you are doing, and then make incremental improvements to what you do and how you do it based on what you learn, so that you can adapt to changes when necessary, and maintain or improve effectiveness over time.

Equivalence

Involve people in making and evolving decisions that affect them, so that you increase engagement and accountability, and make use of the distributed intelligence toward achieving and evolving your objectives.

Transparency

Record all information that is valuable for the organization and make it accessible to everyone in the organization, unless there is a reason for confidentiality, so that everyone has the information they need to understand how to do their work in a way that contributes most effectively to the whole.

Accountability

Respond when something is needed, do what you agreed to do, and accept your share of responsibility for the course of the organization, so that what needs doing gets done, nothing is overlooked and everyone does what they can to contribute toward the effectiveness and integrity of the organization.

Frequently Asked Questions

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What improvements/changes can I expect to my business if I take on dynamic governance?

> The creation of a central workplace hub where all aspects of the business can be managed by all.

> Employee engagement

> Structured Meetings

> Group Goals & Solution Brainstorms

> Well defined and elected roles across the company

> Consent Based Decision Making

> Better distribution of tasks, responsibilities and accountability

What does the implementation of dynamic governance look like?

Phase 1: Understand. Connecting & Educating

- Roll out begins with finding allies within the organization who have shared concerns about the state of governance and an introduction to dynamic governance.

- Connecting our allies with others outside of the organization who are familiar and have experience with dynamic governance in their business or organization.

Phase 2: Explore. Building a home base and experimenting

- Phase two begins with creating an Implementation Team and operating it with dynamic governance principles in mind.

- Introducing and practicing elements of dynamic governance as a small group, teams will begin to take on dynamic governance in practice through small group elections, structured meetings, proposals, consent based decision making.

Phase 3: Decide. Solidifying your governance proposal and putting it in place.

- Phase three kicks off with a first draft of a governance agreement that delineates the organizational structure being proposed by the Implementation Team.

- The governance agreement draft will be the first proposal to be considered, revised and consented to by the implementation team.

Source: Many Voices, One Song - SOFA

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