Policy
- The Default Model for selecting next year's Synergy management staff is a consensus process solely among the potential managers, facilitated by one or more current Synergy Managers.
- All aspects of this model -- including selection process, choice of facilitator, rules for outside participation, etc. -- can be modified by the potential managers.
- Modifications would first need to be consented? to using the Default Model.
- Regardless of the chosen process, the group of prospective managers must deliver a weekly report, in some form, to the Synergy community regarding the status and progress of the selection process.
- It is strongly recommended that potential managers also use this report to ask the Synergy community for input or advice to help guide them.
- This Default Model for management selection was chosen by consensus of Synergy House on February 13, 2006.
- While individual teams of potential managers may, in a given year, choose a different process for themselves (see clause 1.1), the Default Model will remain the starting point each year until such time that Synergy as a whole consents to a change.
- Potential managers will wear chicken costumes to meetings.
Techniques
Some techniques that may be usefully employed by the prospective managers in the course of their selection process:
- Create a grid with positions along the columns and names along the rows, expressing personal preferences for each position with a rank number (top 3) or solid circle (love it), hollow circle (like it), or x (wouldn't do it).
- Homework assignments between meetings to come up with slates of managers
- Going around the circle and each person advocates for another to be a manager
- Saying one person you think is especially fit for a particular position
- Saying one person who you want to see on the management staff no matter what position
