TSCG presents at International Leadership Association Conference 2013

TSCG members with colleagues at 2013 ILA conference — TSCG members with colleagues at the 2013 ILA conference. Rear: John Buck, Ghislaine Cimon, Gilles Charest, Christine Larose, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, Sheella Mierson, Guy Chagnon. Front: Sabine Heyman, Pierre Barbès, Francine Proulx-Kenzle.

TSCG members were active contributors to the 2013 ILA conference in Montreal.

John Buck and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez presented on public leadership with the workshop Intentional Neighborhoods: Key to Regional Resilience.
John Buck was also a co-presenter in the area of business leadership, joining Lynne Williams and Ryan Siemer of TW Telecomm, Inc. in offering Transformational Leadership and Dynamic Governance: A Partnership for Possibility.
Sheella Mierson collaborated with Jessica Brown of the Barrett Values Centre to present Design and Build Healthy Professional Relationships Using the Blueprint of the We Process.
Francine Proulx-Kenzle teamed up with Christine Larose of Sociogest to offer Sociocracy: The Basis for Resilient Educational Institutions.

Nearly Zero Staff Turnover

The Assisted Living care industry nationwide has a very high rate of staff turnover. We have nearly zero staff turnover. That adds to the profitability of a business when you don’t have to hire and train new people all the time. It also adds to the continuity of patient care.

Dee DeLuca, Executive Director, Living Well Group, Bristol, VT

Easy, Efficient Delegation

Since we've adopted sociocracy, it's much easier and more efficient for me to delegate. I'm able to receive information from the staff, the faculty, and all the different committees in a much more efficient fashion. I can't tell you how much more enjoyable my job is.

Renee Owen, Executive Director, Rainbow Community School, Asheville, North Carolina

Moving Through Problems Together

Our community faced daunting financial and personality challenges on its path to getting built. Sociocracy helped everyone get over their problems by getting together. We now have a happy, thriving community and sociocracy is the basis of our governance system.

Founding member of a Vermont cohousing community

Fewer Meetings, Better Decisions

We adopted sociocracy and all of a sudden there is a room full of empowered people helping make decisions. People feel different. I’d say that at the end of 100% of our circle meetings - where we set policy - everyone says, 'My goodness. I feel so much more energized.' We have fewer meetings over time as we’ve implemented sociocracy, the decisions are better, and the follow-through is better because everyone’s on board.

Paul Kervick, Outreach Coordinator and Board Member, Vermont

Skills for Community Success

...My ability to successfully navigate a meeting has grown significantly, and our community’s meetings are much more productive now. It was great to have a small class with such skilled, experienced, and responsive instructors...This is the first time in an online class that I felt so engaged, learned so much, and received so much value and personal attention. I highly recommend this class (Facilitating Sociocracy) for anyone who wants to improve their understanding, experience, skills, and enjoyment of sociocratic facilitation.

Hope V. Horton, Hart’s Mill Ecovillage, North Carolina

John Schinnerer

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