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Welcome to the CNVC Board section of NVCwiki. The goal of this area is to gradually enable CNVC Board members and others they might select, to edit official documents. It is our hope that two needs may be met in this way. First, the international CNVC Board will be able to collaborate on the creation of official documents by using this wiki interface. Second, anyone interested in better understanding CNVC decisions will be able to watch the documents evolve and add their own comments and suggestions in the Public Comment areas.
Contents
Board Meeting Agenda Process Proposal
Click here to view and edit (protected) the Agenda Process proposal.
Board Policies
Click here to view and edit (protected) the Board Policies.
GCC Draft Proposal
A proposal to create a global leadership group that is inclusive, responsive to, and representative of the entire global NVC community (for example by including Sociocratically elected members) and linked into the CNVC board in a manner that allows for effective overall cooperation.
Criteria For CEO Selection
The following characteristics are offered for consideration in generating a List of Criteria for selection of a CEO for CNVC:
Required
- Extensive experience with NVC, including the work of Robert Gonzales.
- Passion for contribution to the CNVC mission.
- Ability to maintain NVC consciousness in stressful and conflictual situations.
- History of collaboration and team building in NVC community.
- Experience with managing budgets.
- Familiarity with U.S. labor & non-profit laws and regulations.
- Fundraising experience.
- Experience using NVC in business or non-profit management.
Preferred
- CNVC Certified Trainer.
- Training and familiarity with Sociocracy and Chaordic principles.
- Mediation experience.
- Non-profit management experience.
- Experience working with media (public relations).
- Public speaking experience.
- Multilingual.
- Permanent U.S. work visa.
- Well-travelled.
- Experience or familiarity with common computer applications and networks.
- Leadership experience with collaboration between staff and global customer base.
==Public Discussion== Click to read public discussion and Board responses or to add any comments you would like share with the Board.
Proposed Board Agenda - May Meeting
Agenda for May 10 Board conference call meeting, currently scheduled for 8am PT / 5pm CET.
- Note: to find out the current Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) and Universal Time (UTC, which is the same as GMT), you can visit this website by clicking on this link:
- 1700 CET Check in and consent to observer policy (~20 min)
- 1725-Consent agenda (~5 min)
- Liz Gay is welcomed to the Board for the remainder of 2006 per the nomination from the Asia Pacific Circle.
- The GCC Proposal is adopted as a working document for the structure of CNVC.
- Board Members will review the current Board Policies in preparation for determining the next steps for updating the Board Policies at the June 2006 Board meeting in order to be in congruence with working policies.
- Board Members will review what needs are met and unmet by the role of the interim director position and Jori's work in relation to this role, and be prepared for this evaluation at the June 2006 Board meeting for decision on 3-month renewal until Sept 30, 2006, and determination of next steps.
- 1730-Election of Secretary and Vice President (~20 min)
For elections:
- Terms: 1 year
- Responsibilities:
- Secretary:
- Provide Board minutes for review by the Board and for distribution
- Maintain/update Board policies
- Vice President:
- Track Board agreements for agenda items
- Assume President's responsibilities in President's absence
- Secretary:
- 1750-Discussion of database, wiki, blog and other technology support options (~10 min, John)
- 1800-Discuss NVC World and how to make the best use of Linnaea’s energies both past and present (±10 minutes - Godfrey).
- 1810-Discuss change to certification-renewal process from percentage of net gains to a Membership Fee (±10 min, Godfrey).
- 1820-“The Board agreed that all CNVC bodies would do their best to live the process of Nonviolent Communication†(~2 min, Godfrey)
- 1822-Update on GCC process (John B.? Stefan? ~3 min)
- 1825-Board meeting location, frequency and review of Needs/strategies.(~10 min)
- 1835-Additional Discussion, additional Agenda Items, or Observer feedback (10 min)
- 1845-Board check out: what worked and didn't work?
Other Items Proposed
The following agenda items were also proposed, and along with any that arise during the meeting could be considered for addition if time permits
- Certification status of trainers in Belgium. (Godfrey)
- Proposal: that the next in-person meeting in Atlanta be cancelled and that someone (tbd) propose an alternative board regulation looking to provide more flexibility in strategy in order to meet the board member's and organization's needs - 10 mins
==Public Discussion== Click to read public discussion and Board responses or to add any comments you would like share with the Board.
How To Edit
Once you have logged in you can click "edit" on the right margin of the section you're interested in to open an editing window and then scroll down in the text to add your own comments, or do so on the discussion page. Insert empty lines to get paragraph breaks.
- Put an asterisk * at the start of a line to make it a bullet item.
- Put a pound sign # at the start of a line to make it a numbered item.
Most web browsers will display buttons at the top of the editing windows allow you to create headers, etc.
You can experiment with editing just by clicking "edit" and typing something in, and then clicking "Show preview" at the very bottom (rather than "Save page") to see what your changes look like. If you don't like how it came out you can continue editing or just click on "cancel" to the right of "Save page" or on "article" at the top to bail out completely without making any permanent changes.
Even if you save changes you don't like, it's easy in the wiki interface to revert to previous versions. See the "history" function at the very top to get a sense of that. History is also great for finding out who made which changes and comparing different versions with colors to show which parts are different.
Be sure to also check out the "Recent changes" item in the "navigation" menu on the left. With that feature you can quickly see what has been written on the entire site, rather than looking up each item individually. Since the contributions on the site right now are mostly related to Board business, you'll probably see our discussions on the first page displayed.
If you'd like to experiment, click "edit" in the right margin next to the title of this section and type in your text in the line below this one. If you have questions, this would be a great place to ask them since others could see and learn from them too.
Experiment here
Proposal by Jori regarding meeting preparation
To use our time together with more ease, clarity and effectiveness, we will prepare for our meetings:
>The President or Facilitator chooses a facilitator at each meeting for the next meeting and asks for consent.
>Voting members post and edit items proposed for the next agenda at http://en.nvcwiki.com/index.php/NVC_Board.
>New proposals are sent by email also to Members. All comments and edits will be posted to the Wiki.
>The Secretary supports Members using the Wiki by posting and with instruction as needed.
>Voting members check the Wiki by Friday of each week and makes edits agenda items to support our moving toward consent.
>Facilitator will prepare an agenda 10 days before the meeting and post on the Wiki and email to Members for final review. (For this month: 14 June - unless changed)
>Facilitator will send final agenda to Members 1 week before scheduled meeting.
>Exec. Dir. will post the final agenda to the network with conference details
Consent agenda procedures:
>Only items that have had all objections addressed will be listed on the consent agenda
>Items on the consent agenda will go directly to a voiced round for consent at the meeting.
>Items on the consent agenda that have a paramount objection at the meeting will go back to the Wiki.
>Items not ready for the consent agenda, and may be moved to a proposal for a full consent process.
Comment S Wisbauer: I fully support this proposal
CNVC IT Committee
Click on the title to visit the CNVC Information Technology (IT) page on NVCwiki.
