Governance Meeting

A governance meeting is a meeting where a team changes its own structure: it creates, amends or removes roles and their accountabilities, sets the policies the team works by and elects people to elected roles. Day-to-day work goes to a separate tactical meeting. The format of a governance meeting depends on the governance model the organization follows, such as holacracy or sociocracy.

Companies, nonprofits and cooperatives hold governance meetings to set their policies and keep their structure in line with their objectives and values.

In holacracy, the governance meeting process is written down in the Holacracy Constitution: three phases, six steps to process a proposal, and four criteria a concern has to meet before it counts as an objection.

A meeting runs faster when the people bringing a topic prepare it. They define the proposal clearly, gather the information it needs, say who presents each item and send the documents to participants beforehand.