Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Evaluating Boards?

[Diana Carroll (dianaecarroll]

Great quote.

Elizabeth warren is my personal hero. I love her!

On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
wrote:

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> > On Apr 16, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Sue STIGLEMAN <sstigleman [at] bellsouth.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > We are beginning from the recommendation we've heard from Laird Schaub
> over the years to have a regular process for reviewing the performance of
> teams and committees.  I'm on the Board, and our thinking is that the Board
> would go first, do a self-evaluation and ask for evaluation by the
> Membership, before moving on to evaluate the other teams.  We currently
> have zero nada zip evaluation process for any team.
> > A few objectives are: 1. periodic review of team charters to keep them
> current and fresh (as part of the review process.)2. encourage an attitude
> and a process for team members to regularly step back out of the everyday
> weeds, looking at the bigger picture, and asking "how are we doing?"3.
> establish a mechanism for Members to give input to teams and committees
> about how they are impacted (positively and negatively) by the team's work.
>
> Firstly, have clear aims stated. This is usually where things get muddy.
> There have been no clear statements of what a team is expected to do. In
> the first review this will probably be as far as you get. And probably
> "should" be as far as you get. How can you evaluate performance if you
> don't agree on objectives?
>
> Secondly, review the roles, not the people. The purpose, not the
> performer. In a community, you don't want to wake up the next morning and
> think about what you neighbor thinks about you. You want to wake up feeling
> at home. You weren't hired. And you probably didn't sign on to be
> therapized or to live up to someone else's expectations.
>
> In a wonderful quote by Elizabeth Warren:
>
> > There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. … You
> moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired
> workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory
> because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You
> didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything
> at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the
> work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into
> something terrific, or a great idea. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But
> part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay
> forward for the next kid who comes along.
>
> The same is true of every person who didn't do it right. Success and
> failure doesn't happen in a vacuum. So an evaluation of a team is an
> evaluation of the community in one aspect of itself. How are "we" doing in
> relation to facilities, etc?
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
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