Understanding Core Roles & Elections

Key learning

Understand the similarities and differences between Lead Links, Rep Links, and conventional managers.
Learn how to judge fit for the Facilitator, Secretary, and Rep Links roles for good elections.
Find out why Lead Links are not elected.
Build a toolkit of best practices for interacting with the core roles to get what you need.
Learn when and how to go the Rep Link for help processing a tension.
Become a better participant in tactical and governance meetings.
Develop a stronger sense of how to practice Holacracy well throughout your workday.

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Self-paced course
2
hours of course material
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Description

Are these questions familiar?

  • “How is the Lead Link of my circle any different from a manager?”
  • “What should I consider when nominating a Facilitator or Secretary?”
  • “I have a tension and I don’t know how to process it. Can the Rep Link help?”

Understanding Core Roles & Elections is an online course designed to answer these questions and more. You also get peer learning and expert coaching to help you get comfortable with interacting with Lead Links, Facilitators, Secretaries, and Rep Links in your organization.

All circles in a Holacracy-powered organization have four core roles: Lead Link, Rep Link, Facilitator, and Secretary. It’s crucial for a smooth and sustainable practice that circle members know what to expect from these roles. They exist to serve you as you work to fulfill your organization’s purpose.

You also need to know what these roles can expect from you as a circle member. While they may fill some of the functions of conventional management, there are big differences that you need to know how to navigate well.

This course will give you a detailed overview of the functions of the core roles, tips for how to interact with them and what to consider for elections, and provide answers to common questions.

Course

content

Lesson
1
Core Roles Overview
Lesson
2
The Meeting Roles
Lesson
3
Facilitator
Lesson
4
Secretary
Lesson
5
The Linking Roles
Lesson
6
Lead Link
Lesson
7
Working with the Lead Link
Lesson
8
Rep Link
Lesson
9
Elections
Lesson
10
Nominations
Lesson
11
Why the Lead Link Isn't Elected

The

Course

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Course summary
Quiz

Extra benefits

Access live coaching sessions (online) with Certified Holacracy Coaches
Access an online community of peers and experts
Get a certificate of course completion

Your instructor

Chris Cowan

Chris Cowan

Chris is an accomplished consultant and leadership development expert. He joined HolacracyOne after seeing the limits of many traditional leadership development approaches that failed to address underlying organizational norms and power structures. He has worked with a wide variety of commercial, non-profit, and governmental clients on their manager training programs and has taught graduate courses in leadership at Harvard University and Georgetown University. Chris has a Masters in Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate in Human and Organizational Learning from the George Washington University.

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