Round Sky Solutions Blog
What is Tension?
At Round Sky, participants in the Cooperative Leadership Certification Program learn about and explore practices for holding meaningfully collaborative meetings. What practices will help us to tap...
Meetings Amplify Collective Energy
At Round Sky, our collective process tools tend to focus on the meeting space, at least initially. Why? Well, there’s a reason many people hate meetings! People hate when the meeting feels like it’s...
A Letter from Alyssa – Round Sky’s New Instructor
Greetings everyone, My name is Alyssa (they/them), and I am excited to join the Round Sky co-op as the new assistant instructor and in my “residency” to become a worker owner! I wanted to take some...
Why Self Advocacy is Cooperative Advocacy: A look at personal development in cooperation
The perfect collaborative tools (and even flawless facilitation skills) doesn’t mean much over time if you and your team members are not tending to your personal development work. Yes, you read that...
Collaborative Strategic Planning Resources Compilation
Recently, Round Sky received a request for strategic planning resources. I've talked to many people this month that are gearing up for their team retreats, looking at their 2023 goals, reflecting on...
Round Sky Solutions is Now Hiring: Facilitation Trainer
Start date: October 16th at the latest Applications due: September 9th About Round Sky: Round Sky Solutions is a worker cooperative facilitating and teaching about cooperative leadership and...
Las organizaciones autogestionadas y sus siete conversaciones fundamentales
This is a re-published blog with permission from Maia Numerosky on her experience and learning from the Cooperative Leadership Certification Program. The original article is published in Spanish and...
More Democracy, More Life
Picture an ideal world, functioning sublimely well. A problem arises–how does it get handled? Someone has an idea–what happens to it? There is a dispute between two people–how does it get resolved?...
Tension-Driven Meetings for Coops in Uncertain Times
Try reframing your next few online meetings with gathering the “tensions” from the team to get at the heart of the matter. Over time, you’ll find yourselves more human-centered and agile as you source your agendas from your team to align on the work together, tap into the needs of those on your team, and build engagement across space.
Visiting Mondragon: 7 Lessons on the “Sovereignty of Labor”
In the Fall of 2019, I visited the Mondragon Cooperatives through the Saint Mary’s Masters of Cooperative Management Field Research course taught by Marcelo Vieta. Before I left for the field...
20 wishes for Cooperative Leaders in 2020
2020. The New Year. The New Decade. With the New Year here there is a buzz around -- how do we make lasting shifts, transform, and grow this 2020? At Round Sky, we talk a lot about power flows and...
COLLABORATION: The Gift of Collective Desperation (And Talking Your Way Through It!)
Replacing traditional hierarchical management with a self-management model – where power is shared – is new territory for me, and maybe for you, too. Collab’s ruthlessly practical content, structure, and principles impart immediately applicable skills for embracing the How, What and Why (process, structure, and flow) of working collaboratively. It offers a complete operating system of integrative methods blended from new and proven management models for cultivating change-thinking and behavior.
Make Better Decisions as a Group – A Collaboration Between Round Sky and Loomio
The world seems to move faster every day. Every second counts as we try to balance our work and social lives all while dealing with the big challenges that loom over humanity as a whole. With...
3 Collective Decision-Making Pitfalls to Avoid
Decision making is such an important part of our teams and of life. We make decisions all the time! Some of us take these actions quickly, snapping our fingers and heading off in the direction of...
7 Solutions for Accountability in Cooperation
Accountability. It's a topic that comes up over and over again in our cooperatives, non-profits, organizing spaces, and even relationships. So, how do we support each other with clarity, care, and...
Democratic Management: An Analysis of the Trends in Co-operatives and “Teal” Organizations
Next week, we at Round Sky are presenting at the Cooperative Entrepreneurship Conference in Montreal, Canada! This conference is organized by the Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE), the...