Purpose: The Circle Lead holds the Purpose of the overall Circle.
Domains:
- Role assignments within the Circle
Accountabilities:
- Defining Roles and/or Policies via the Circle's Governance Process to enact its Purpose and Accountabilities
- Assigning Partners to the Circle’s Roles, monitoring the fit, and re-assigning Roles to other Partners to optimize fit
- Judging the relative value of Circle efforts on request to resolve priority conflicts across Roles
The Circle Lead also holds all un-delegated Circle-level Domains and Accountabilities.
Purpose: Tensions relevant to process in the broader Circle channeled out and resolved.
Accountabilities:
- Seeking to understand Tensions conveyed by Role-fillers within the represented Role/Circle
- Discerning Tensions appropriate to process within the Circle that holds the represented Role/Circle
- Processing Tensions within the broader Circle to remove constraints on the represented Role/Circle
Purpose: Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.
Accountabilities:
- Facilitating the Governance Process and Tactical Meetings of the Circle or for its Roles
- Coaching other Circle Members on the Constitution's rules and processes, either on request or when needed for effective meetings
- Auditing the meetings and records of Sub-Circles on request, and declaring a Process Breakdown upon discovering a pattern of behavior that conflicts with the rules of the Constitution
Purpose: Steward the Circle’s governance records and stabilize its record-keeping process.
Domains:
- All governance records of the Circle
Accountabilities:
- Scheduling Governance Meetings and Tactical Meetings of the Circle or called by its Roles, and notifying all invited participants
- Capturing and publishing the outputs of Governance Meetings and Tactical Meetings of the Circle or called by its Roles
- Interpreting Governance and the Constitution upon request