Learning

compass.

See what supports your collaboration, and what needs attention.

Compass helps groups and Labs explore their collaboration through sixteen conditions. Discuss strengths and tensions, and follow your own development.

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§ How it works in practice

compass is the federation’s self-assessment instrument. A Lab places itself on each of the sixteen SYFERS conditions at one of four levels: absent, emerging, established or embedded. Every level is written out for every condition, so “established” means the same in each Lab. For Inclusive Governance it means a consent-based process in use, decisions documented, and a vision written down and shared.

The first assessment is the baseline. The Lab repeats it, usually in a quarterly read-back that can draw on its records in chart, and compass shows how each placement has moved since the baseline. The result can be exported as a Markdown file. Anyone can try the sixteen conditions at compass.syfers.eu/mirror without an account; nothing entered there is saved.

Example

At the quarterly read-back, a Lab sees how its placements have changed since the first assessment.

§ Other instruments

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