Building adaptive, effective & responsive culture.
Adaptive, responsive and effective organisations create potent positive impact.
They utilise collective intelligence.
They distribute leadership to engage the whole team.
And they get further faster with iterative and measurable progress.
Sociocracy creates adaptive & effective groups.
Sociocracy provides systems for organising work and for making decisions to guide that work.
It is a collaborative decision-making and governance framework using the values of effectiveness, transparency and equivalence.
A Summary
Sociocracy helps groups co-design their work and interactions within their domain of expertise.
Each group member is a leader. Together, they collaboratively decide on operational policy in semi-autonomous, self-organising groups to achieve the organisational mission. Founded on the 'both/and' approach, Sociocracy allows for a flat-structure of teams, with a hierarchy of work focus.
Sociocracy embraces a circular functionality. Teams are ‘Circles’, policies are decided in the round, and decisions are always reviewed. It integrates the edges of people’s real-time experience to ensure collective aims are met effectively, transparently and with equivalence.
Erin Young presenting an Introduction to Sociocracy, Maleny, November 2019. Image by Jimmy Hirst
Help your group be adaptive & effective.
Consulting.
Working directly with the specific context of your organisation, consulting packages provide bespoke, specialised strategy, training, coaching and support with the Sociocractic Circle-Organisation Method (SCM).
As a consulting member of The Sociocracy Consulting Group (TSCG), Erin works with the support and collaboration of her esteemed colleagues to benefit your sociocracy journey.
Engaging consulting with Erin and TSCG is the most direct and effective way to up-level your team/s with self-organisation .
Facilitation.
Having a skilled facilitator conduct your meetings produces enjoyable and productive discussions.
Erin creates meeting experiences where all voices are heard and integrated, where decision-making is effective, equivalent and transparent
Benefits of skilled sociocractic facilitation:
Maximises effectiveness and reduces tensions around power
Decreases the number of meetings and heightens productivity
Streamlines decision-making
Kindles creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit
Increases individual and collective engagement, commitment and empowerment
Mentoring.
Already integrating self-organisation with sociocracy into your group and need some guidance?
Erin brings her years of experience to journey with your exploration and application of sociocracy. Mentoring clarifies concepts and principles, and supports an effective implementation process for excellent governance.
The Sociocracy Consulting Group team. L-R. Sheella Mierson (US). Gina Price (AUS). Francine Proulx-Kenzle (CAN). John Schinnerer (US). Erin Young (AUS).
More insights to sociocracy:
Sociocracy & Permaculture.
Watch Erin Young and John Schinnerer discuss the parallels of sociocracy and permaculture in webinar "Sociocracy & Permaculture. Designing the Future", hosted by Sociocracy For All in June 2017.
Conference presentation.
Watch Erin Young describe sociocracy's Picture-forming 'brainstorming' process with the framework for Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats methodology in a webinar presented at the inaugural International Sociocracy Conference 2018
Erin Young & Sociocracy
Erin began her journey with sociocracy and the Sociocractic Circle-Organisation method (SCM) in 2012. She is a consulting member of The Sociocracy Consulting Group (TSCG) - consulting and training in international online programs.
Initiated by Australia’s Gina Price and USA’s John Schinnerer (both co-founders of TSCG), Erin collaborates with her experienced colleagues in projects ranging from commercial business, social enterprise, ecovillage, and for-benefit organisations within Australia and internationally.
Activate your team.
Sociocracy training and consulting is available so your team can be adaptive, effective and creative in doing it’s work in the world.
Connect to explore what’s possible.