MF/PL Leadership Committee Decision-Making Process

(note: this is a work in progress)

What decisions are made at MF/PL?

Categories of decisions

What are some broad categories of decisions that are made? Examples could include fiscal, technical, political, personnel-related...

• Direction: Over all direction and areas of focus of the organization (e.g. Hemispheric Innitiative, etc)
• Infrastructure: what areas to focus on, what technologies to use, what and when to buy new equipment
• Collaboration: within the given political direction, what coalitions to join, what conferences to attend, what to present, etc.
• Message/Communication: how and what to communicate with memers
• Staffing: who/when to recruit or hire for staff

Timing

Within those categories, what sort of timing is MF/PL confronted with, from decisions that need to be made at the spur of the moment to very long-term, big-picture decisions?

Scope

what decisions can be made by staff and/or support teams on their own and which kinds of decisions need to go to the LC?

How have those decisions been made previously?

Who

• Up to now, who has typically made those different types of decisions?

• What are all of the decision-making bodies currently at work at MF/PL? (e.g. co-directors, staff as a whole, board, LC, support team)

• Membership as a whole
• Leadership Committee
• Co-Directors
• Staff
• Support Team

How

• How are those decisions made within each body?

• How are decisions recorded, shared with the wider organization, enacted, and followed up on?

Consultations

Outside of the people actually making the decisions, who else is consulted for input or feedback that is then incorporated into the decision-making process?

Assessment

What have the benefits of the decision-making process to date been? What have the drawbacks been?