Hi all,
the WMF Board took another round of the exercise to create a Board skills grid to get more clarity about what the current needs on the Board are and how well they are covered. The Board will discuss the result and the implications for the board composition at the Board meeting before Wikimania in London.
We are interested in your thoughts and input for this discussion. Please take a look at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Board_skills_... and share your ideas on the talk page.
Regards, Alice.
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can someone explain in detail what the definitions of each criterion are and what the different scores mean applied to each criterion? For example, what does "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" mean as a skill?
Thanks, Pine
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Alice Wiegand awiegand@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
the WMF Board took another round of the exercise to create a Board skills grid to get more clarity about what the current needs on the Board are and how well they are covered. The Board will discuss the result and the implications for the board composition at the Board meeting before Wikimania in London.
We are interested in your thoughts and input for this discussion. Please take a look at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_Governance_Committee/Board_skills_... and share your ideas on the talk page.
Regards, Alice.
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On 09/07/2014, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can someone explain in detail what the definitions of each criterion are and what the different scores mean applied to each criterion? For example, what does "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" mean as a skill?
+1
Can it be in plain English please, rather than weird jargon?
Examples include:
* "Gender diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean counting how many women are on the board (so why not say that?), or maybe it includes other dimensions, like a count of LGBT identifying people. The "board as a whole" might mean that the count is of people who are not actually board members, it is very unclear.
* "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean counting the number of countries where board members reside, or how many different countries they have resided in, or how much they travel, or several other things. It may or may not be a part of "Ethnic / multi-lingual diversity for the board as a whole" which is counted as a second thingy.
* "Visionary creative drive" - this appears to be classic management speak rather than English. I hope that the board has very few "visionaries", it sounds like having several might become disruptive. Boards benefit from having several people who are not "creative" (that can be a good thing when you want basic stuff actually done, like giving some oversight for the annual accounts).
Fae
I largely agree, and I also think this chart shows that the Board badly needs people with management expertise.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/07/2014, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can someone explain in detail what the definitions of each criterion are and what the different scores mean applied to each criterion? For example, what does "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" mean as a skill?
+1
Can it be in plain English please, rather than weird jargon?
Examples include:
- "Gender diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean
counting how many women are on the board (so why not say that?), or maybe it includes other dimensions, like a count of LGBT identifying people. The "board as a whole" might mean that the count is of people who are not actually board members, it is very unclear.
- "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean
counting the number of countries where board members reside, or how many different countries they have resided in, or how much they travel, or several other things. It may or may not be a part of "Ethnic / multi-lingual diversity for the board as a whole" which is counted as a second thingy.
- "Visionary creative drive" - this appears to be classic management
speak rather than English. I hope that the board has very few "visionaries", it sounds like having several might become disruptive. Boards benefit from having several people who are not "creative" (that can be a good thing when you want basic stuff actually done, like giving some oversight for the annual accounts).
Fae
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Thank you Alice for sharing this with the community.
2014-07-09 9:56 GMT+02:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
I largely agree, and I also think this chart shows that the Board badly needs people with management expertise.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/07/2014, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can
someone
explain in detail what the definitions of each criterion are and what
the
different scores mean applied to each criterion? For example, what does "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" mean as a skill?
+1
Can it be in plain English please, rather than weird jargon?
Examples include:
- "Gender diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean
counting how many women are on the board (so why not say that?), or maybe it includes other dimensions, like a count of LGBT identifying people. The "board as a whole" might mean that the count is of people who are not actually board members, it is very unclear.
- "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean
counting the number of countries where board members reside, or how many different countries they have resided in, or how much they travel, or several other things. It may or may not be a part of "Ethnic / multi-lingual diversity for the board as a whole" which is counted as a second thingy.
- "Visionary creative drive" - this appears to be classic management
speak rather than English. I hope that the board has very few "visionaries", it sounds like having several might become disruptive. Boards benefit from having several people who are not "creative" (that can be a good thing when you want basic stuff actually done, like giving some oversight for the annual accounts).
Fae
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Yes thank you for sharing, and I apologize if I sound short-tempered, but this is the kind of report I am used to reading from consultants and I lost patience with them a long time ago. (:
Pine
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Pierre-Selim pierre-selim@huard.info wrote:
Thank you Alice for sharing this with the community.
2014-07-09 9:56 GMT+02:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
I largely agree, and I also think this chart shows that the Board badly needs people with management expertise.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/07/2014, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I find the terminology and scoring here to be pretty obscure. Can
someone
explain in detail what the definitions of each criterion are and what
the
different scores mean applied to each criterion? For example, what
does
"Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" mean as a skill?
+1
Can it be in plain English please, rather than weird jargon?
Examples include:
- "Gender diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean
counting how many women are on the board (so why not say that?), or maybe it includes other dimensions, like a count of LGBT identifying people. The "board as a whole" might mean that the count is of people who are not actually board members, it is very unclear.
- "Geographic diversity for the board as a whole" - this might mean
counting the number of countries where board members reside, or how many different countries they have resided in, or how much they travel, or several other things. It may or may not be a part of "Ethnic / multi-lingual diversity for the board as a whole" which is counted as a second thingy.
- "Visionary creative drive" - this appears to be classic management
speak rather than English. I hope that the board has very few "visionaries", it sounds like having several might become disruptive. Boards benefit from having several people who are not "creative" (that can be a good thing when you want basic stuff actually done, like giving some oversight for the annual accounts).
Fae
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