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Welcome to the CNVC Leadership Team (LT) section of NVCwiki. The goal of this area is to enable CNVC LT (formerly referred to as GCC) 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 CNVC LT 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.

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GCC Minutes October 12th, 2006 Conference Call

GCC Members: John Wiley (President, facilitator), Jori Manske (ED), Stefan Wisbauer (Vice-President/ Secretary), Katherine Singer (Treasurer), Valentina Rosenberg, Danielle Beenders (minute taker and CNVC staff rep), Liz Gay (Asia Pacific Circle Rep), Jeff Brown (ENACC Rep), Monica Rue (Eastern European Rep), Kirsten Kristensen (Scandinavian/ Baltic Rep)

Consultants: Marshall Rosenberg and John Buck

Observers: Meta Hough (Oregon, US), Pierre Marie (Paris, France), Rita Herzog (Ohio, USA), Jim Manske (California, USA), Glenda Mattinson (Toronto, Canada), Jacob Gotwals (New Mexico, USA), Diana Young (California, USA)

> Next meeting is the in person meeting in Atlanta from October 22-24, 2006. Next phone meeting: Wednesday, November 15, 2006.

Noted:

> The Eastern European circle will not be able to send a rep to the Atlanta meeting due to a combination of visa issues and other local commitments.

> The proposed invitation to Marshall to join the GCC was postponed for discussion at the face-to-face meeting

> Comments on the proposed agenda for the face-to-face meeting were gathered, and the agenda will be evolved.

Decisions:

> GCC to make 2 hours time on day 1 to listen to Marshall and Valentina presenting their proposed plan for redefining the relationship between CNVC and Marshall.

> GCC welcomes Kirsten Kristensen as the Scandinavian / Baltic Rep till March 2007.

> A GCC Rep can propose to send a representative proxy from their circle to represent them at meetings.

> The GCC will be available for 15 min from 7-7:15pm on the first and second day of the GCC meeting to listen to observers. There will be a sign-up sheet for this purpose.

Closing round:

Pierre Marie: thankful for all the efforts. Sad that there is no French rep and that he could not hear Liz very well.

Glenda: I am feeling excited and scared around the proposal of Marshall & Valentina. I like to see him involved in decision making. I am grateful we can all listen in on these meetings.

John Buck: it may have been good to have asked to go around asking for a solution on the project topic. Speak a little slower, so others (non English speaking) can follow. Is there anyone leaving on the evening of 25th?

Katherine: thank you for facilitating, look forward to seeing you all.

Kirsten: I feel grateful for the efforts to stay connected. I am mourning I cannot be in Atlanta with you.

Stefan: I felt a little frustrated at the end that we talked 30 mins about giving someone 15 mins on the agenda, but overall very satisfied. I look forward to seeing you all.

Liz: I had fun, I appreciate all the efforts. I am happy to have spent the time on the project discussion.

Jeff: I am excited to meet you all and that we now have Kirsten in our midst since we now have another region represented in the GCC. Frustrated about the project discussion and wished John Buck would have stepped in with his suggestion earlier.

Danielle: I am excited to meet you all. Concerned we will not have time in Atlanta to go in depth on some of the agenda points.

Jori: savoring and glad to have been here. I am concerned for Liz on getting to “the Mountain.”

John Wiley: I am feeling warm, appreciative and sad. I grieve that some parts of my facilitation did not meet everyone's needs. I learned more about sociocracy. Appreciate all the contributions. Thank you.

GCC Agenda - October 2006 Meeting (phone)

GCC Agenda - October 2006 Meeting (phone)

Documents from 2004 Board Meetings

GCC Documents from Prior Meetings

Minutes September 2006 GCC Meeting

September 2006 GCC Meeting Minutes

GCC Agenda - September 2006 Meeting

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Minutes August 2006 GCC Meeting

August 2006 GCC Meeting Minutes

GCC Agenda - August 2006 Meeting

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Minutes July 2006 Board Meeting

July 2006 Board Meeting Minutes

Board Agenda - July 2006 Meeting

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Board Agenda - June 2006 Meeting

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Board Agenda - May 2006 Meeting

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Board Meeting Agenda Process Proposal

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Board Policies

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GCC Draft Proposal

This is a working document adopted by the CNVC Board May 2006 to create a global leadership group that is inclusive, responsive to, and representative of the entire global NVC community (for example by including sociocratically selected members) and linked into the CNVC board in a manner that allows for effective overall cooperation. The Global Coordinating Council (GCC) will include members nominated by councils of people from large geographic areas and populations made up of representatives of smaller more localized organizations and will thus provide linking of our community at the local level and to the global level providing the connections that can support our perspective and growth.

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• The GCC Draft Proposal
• An Update on GCC Proposal (updated 18 August 2006)
• An Update on implementation of Sociocracy (posted 10 June 2006)

Criteria For CEO Selection

A draft outline of characteristics offered for consideration in generating a List of Criteria for selection of a CEO for CNVC.

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Leadership & the NVC Mission

A draft for discussion purposes to assist members in the GCC in their dialogue around possible leadership configurations.

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CNVC IT Committee

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Sustainable Leadership Arrangements - Short Briefing & Process Update

Leading / Serving The Way

Short summary of joint reflections on leadership and strategy

The NVC network is looking to create a sustainable and effective leadership configuration. After Gary Baran left his ED role, Jori Manske has been Interim ED and, while Jori has been serving the organization well, she also wants clarity as to the long-term arrangements as do we all.

Stefan Wisbauer has been asked to lead a process of reflection and implementation to move us towards a more permanent leadership configuration.

Stefan has sought to clarify some key aspects of strategy going forward and outline options for leadership could be configured. This document is a brief summary of both those aspects and is intended to align the GCC and network in terms of outlook for the transition to a permanent configuration and inform any candidates for roles within this configuration.

Spirit

The joint explorations have made clear CNVC wants to embrace a leadership philosophy that embraces the underlying consciousness of its work, creates leaders throughout the organization rather than manages top-down but also as brings structure and clear responsibilities where that is beneficial.

Assumptions

Before we get to these two key components (strategy & leadership configuration), we have made some pragmatic assumptions for giving a manageable scope to the exercise and bring more focus to the open questions, the assumptions made are as follows:

Presence: It is desirable for the NVC movement to maintain a US registered charity (amongst other things as a strategy for being able to process donations)

Identifiable leadership: Any part of the global network with multiple employees in one location will benefit from a person or team taking responsibility for its functioning

Connection to governance: Any such person or team would be linked into future global governance structure(s)

Activities: We will continue to organize NVC training (amongst other thing) for the foreseeable future

Strategy

In terms of strategy, while they may be reviewed in executional strategy or other aspects, we saw some areas of activity continuing as a ‘given’ for future leadership to continue guiding:

Training Provision: NVC will continue to organize IITs and other forms of NVC trainings, specifically larger trainings happening in locations around the world

Training Certification: the process of initial and ongoing certification of NVC trainers

Materials Provision: NVC will offer and see to distribution of NVC materials being available through agreements as with Puddle Dancer

Network Support Provision: being available to the network and those outside in connecting with those with the right expertise, similar interests etc. as per the requests received or needs identified

Other areas seemed less clear at the outset but the intention to address the following areas under the new leadership arrangement were expressed:

Projects: finding more efficient ways of supporting projects globally. Rather than relying on surplus training revenue, in addition to existing fundraising efforts, by turning to third-party fundraising (foundations etc.) for larger projects and leveraging the global network for the delivery of such projects. This can comprise both central fundraising with foundations / corporates etc. as well as supporting the network in such efforts by providing documentation of successful efforts, an institutional backing where beneficial, coaching etc. It will require building stronger capabilities in this area into the office and a leader with the right network / experience would be an effective strategy for kick-starting growth in this area.

Services: more clearly outline and systematically market/build other service offerings alongside training to the outside world, this is likely to include Mediation, but may also include Coaching or Consulting (e.g. on feedback/evaluation systems, strategy, organizational development, ...) services. The idea is to have a clearly defined offering such that also larger clients can be reached than trainers may on average do with ease on their own. Execution would happen through the network and value sharing principles etc. may be agreed per project.

Platform Provision: building effective online and other platforms for connection. CNVC makes a natural host for such applications to serve the entire network. Platforms can take the shape of online communities with

Leadership Configuration

It has become clear that a ‘team approach’ to leadership is the favored model of most members of the group. The GCC will aim to define more closely what this could look like in its October meeting.

Initial thoughts are that the team could comprise a CEO/ED, between 1 and 3 employee members (i.e. ‘senior management roles’), possibly 1 or 2 GCC members if they are willing to dedicate sufficient time and specialist members as needed (e.g. if a certain challenge like executing a new fundraising strategy with foundations implies specific needs). The team may evolve around issues salient in the organization at a given time but should also have stable, longer-term participation beyond the CEO. Role splits like that between a Network Services Leader and a Development/Fundraising-focused role could still be incorporated in this model as well.

More details on all of the above aspects (spirit, assumptions, strategy and leadership configuration, can be found on http://www.cnvc.org/cnvc-board-minutes.htm

as downloadable files under Item 7 (a full length and shortened version).

After agreeing on an outline Leadership Configuration, a search process for candidates internally and externally will begin.

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