Happy New Year! We are back after a couple of days of break and happy to share our updates with you! In this newsletter, you can read about:

• the launch of the Structure & Process Labs
• our past and ongoing work as organisational developers
• our new information service "Links of the Week"

as well as some company news: look into how we run our monthly in-person partner meetings, meet our new team members and learn about upcoming events where you might meet us. 
(Eine deutsche Zusammenfassung gibt es ganz unten.)

What are your plans or resolutions for this year? Any interesting projects or events coming up that you'd like to share with us? Do get in touch!

Best Regards,

Martin Röll, Annette Mehlhoop, and the Structure & Process team
 

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Launch of the Structure & Process Labs

After some private experimentation and beta-testing, we are now ready to invite you to the Structure & Process Labs: our virtual coworking space for experiments in collaboration. 

If you have a project that you would like to work on with other people, the labs can be your place to develop it together online:

• We provide an environment (based on Slack) where you can work together with collaborators online, using chat and document-sharing.
• You will become part of the lab community (currently 12 people): You can ask for feedback on your project, find support, and, if you wish, recruit further collaborators. 
• The team of Structure & Process is present in the space and can help you with advice, connections and mentoring.

Currently, membership of the Labs is free. Joining is easy: Email Rob with some lines of what you'd like to explore, and he will invite you to the space! 

More details about the Labs are available on our website.
 

Consulting, Hosting, Facilitating, online and offline

Some of the work we have been doing lately:

• Designing and hosting an online workshop for one of our clients: Martin and Annette held a space for Christian Kreutz, CEO of WeThinq and a group of 15 collaborators, working together in an online environment over 6 weeks to gain insight into online workshops and requirements for tools that support them. (If that topic interests you further, consider joining our Facebook group "The Art of Hosting Conversations Online".) 
• Encouraging experiments in self-organisation in organisations. Martin shared our experiences with using Holacracy in Structure & Process with audiences in Darmstadt, Hannover and Braunschweig. The audiences consisted of business managers, entrepreneurs, consultants and university students. Martin especially encouraged founders of new projects to try out systems based on self-organisation, such as Holacracy.
• Consulting a large organisation in the automotive sector in setting up a development program based on the principles of self-organisation: How can an established organisation move from top-down planning and management towards more flexible, agile, bottom-up processes? The work here in ongoing and includes organisational development, event design and facilitation. Martin, Lara and Anika (our new team member, see below) collaborate as a consulting team.

 

Inspiration - now as a weekly service to you 

We found that the links we share on Tumblr weren't getting enough attention. To make them more accessible and more valuable for you, we now curate, comment and promote them on our blog weekly: Check out our "Links of Week" coming to you every Monday!

 

In our last partner meeting in Dresden in October, we kicked off the Structure & Process Labs, set up new consulting projects and got the team together for a consulting session at Gute Stube, one of our local Dresden clients. See some pictures below, and read here, how we organise our partner meetings in general.

As we develop our understanding of our work, our company structure adapts. This article on our blog (in German) explains how our organisation has changed over the years, using Holacracy.