Board Research to Practice: Board Meetings

Beyond Compliance: The Case of MS Ireland and the Practice of Board Performance Assessment

Release Date: 01/10/2023

Description: In this episode of THEBOARDCHECKUP, Mr. Maurice O’Connor, Chair of the board of MS Ireland and Ms Jacinta Kelly, Vice Chair discuss the practice of self-assessing board performance. The episode begins with important background information on the mission of MS Ireland organization, characteristics of the organization and board, and changes in the regulatory environment affecting charities in the Republic of Ireland, including a new charities regulator, governance code and accountability to comply with governance standards.Experience with the process of self-assessing board performance and making change in the board is shared, including,· Connecting the board to the mission in board meetings· Clarifying the board’s role in fundraising· Aligning board work to strategic priorities· Exploring board member effectiveness and the equity of contributionsAn important research question is raised during the interview about the impact of rules and regulations on board effectiveness, specifically, does it make boards more effective. Following the interview, I address the research question, lessons I learned from the case, and the elements that make the case of MS Ireland another great board love story.

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talentDAO: Research-Based DAO Management

Release Date: 01/18/2023

Authors: Andrew Warner

Description: Understanding the organizational and management structures of traditional corporations is considered so important that it was a required class when I studied business as an undergrad at NYU, as it is for business students around the world.But when it comes to DAO management and organizational structure, many communities expect to lead with vibes and good intentions. talentDAO wants to replace that with a scientific approach to DAO leadership. I invited its founder, Renee Davis, about how it operates, what they learned about DAOs, and how she grew talentDAO.Listen to the podcast interview or read my notes below.Could you give me an example of the work talenDAO has done?Gitcoin, the crypto-based fundraising platform for raising money for public goods and open-source projects, jumped into our Discord.They essentially said, “We have a people operations team and we want to start surveying our contributors to better understand the health of our community and the progress we’re making on our goals. We want to make sure we’re boosting engagement overall.”We developed the DAO Health Survey last year, funded by Ocean Protocol. We open-sourced it and hosted it on GitHub. Gitcoin forked that and asked us to facilitate it, which we did.Ultimately, that’s what we want to do. We want DAOs to approach us after seeing the research we post or content we created and ask us to help apply it to their DAOs.What would Gitcoin have done if they hadn’t worked with you?The alternative is probably to create their own survey, which is more time intensive. And I think people miss good survey items. There are statistical analyses that go into building these instruments, it’s a whole field of science called psychometrics.DAOs have created their own engagement surveys, but they’re not confident they’re measuring what they meant to measure. They’re not doing analyses to better understand whether their surveys are actually predicting performance. They’re not doing correlation research.So without us, Gitcoin might have spent more time creating a survey that may not have measured and predicted what they aimed to. And six months later, they would have been disappointed that they implemented onboarding and other practices that didn’t move the needle on engagement.What are some management techniques you’ve seen work in DAOs?I think having a dedicated experimentation group is really important for organizations that want to be nimble and prepared for the future of work. I think the People Ops or HR team need to be embedded within tech and not isolated from it.From my previous days at Deloitte Consulting, I learned that companies that want to be better tech companies need to be better people companies.How do you do it?At talentDAO, I ran every single onboarding call. I onboarded members and shared my knowledge and vision with them.If you look at traditional organizations, the founder or CEO would never be the one to do employee onboarding, like personally sitting down and talking with every single person.I did that for about the first thousand people. It helped us create a cohesive understanding of our North Star. Now, when I’m on a community call, I know people. I think that’s a level of intimacy that DAOs should pursue.What changes have you noticed about how DAOs are perceived in the past year?It went from “DAOs are the future of work! So exciting!,” to “DAOs are not the future of work, but they might be.”Even my excitement changed. In my first article about crypto from a year or two ago I was very optimistic, maybe even naive. I still believe in the opportunity, but we have to build more for that to happen.I have a lot of friends who were big in DAOs who just left. They went to academia or FinTech.To build we need revenue. We can’t operate on good vibes and altruism.How did you get your early members?Two places: BanklessDAO, where I was an early contributor, and LinkedIn, where I spent 10 years telling my story about wanting to become an organizational researcher. At least a third of my network is organizational psychologists working in consulting. They thought it was cool and hopped in.One talentDAO member leads data science at SpaceX. Another works at Microsoft. Another taught at the University of Minnesota. I came from Deloitte.It’s unheard of to have a founding team this big, from all over the world, without previous connections to each other. How many businesses can say they started that way? That’s what happened here.

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Internet-Based Communication in Research

Release Date: 04/25/2023

Description: We discuss how the Internet allows us to gather information that may be more accurate.

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Amplifying Trans Voices: Community-Based Research

Release Date: 11/15/2022

Authors: CFUV

Description: Eli is part of the Chair in Transgender Studies and their supervisors are Dr. Aaron Devor from Sociology and Dr. Nancy Clark from the Social Justice Studies Program. Eli is an international graduate student and they share part of their academic journey and some resources for other international students. Eli has a social psychology background and they share their research work with community-based approaches in Canada and Mexico. Recently, Eli was awarded a fellowship through the Chair in Transgender Studies for their research work related to Trans+ topics. In this episode, Eli shares key terminology regarding LGBTQ2+ themes.  Also, we discussed important topics around gender identity. In a very casual and organic way Eli and Matty had a rich conversation and came up with questions and answers to elucidate more regarding key concepts ---Beyond the Jargon--- such as What is the story of the word Transgender? What does it mean to be non-binary? Why is it important to use pronouns? What does it mean to be a “Joto” or “Marica” in Latin America?https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/research/scholarship/index.phphttps://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.phpFind out more about the upcoming Moving Trans History Forward hosted at UVic in 2023https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2023/

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Based on Research

Release Date: 09/01/2020

Authors: Research Forum

Description: Podcast khusus bercendekia multidisiplin ilmu dengan pendekatan #basedonresearch. Menawarkan menu unboxing jurnal riset terkini dengan bahasan asik & komprehensif sesuai case dan fenomena menarik yang ada.

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RESEARCH

Release Date: 04/29/2021

Authors: namitha ravindran

Description: PODCAST BASED ON RESEARCH

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Shortcut to Slim

Release Date: 08/12/2020

Authors: Lindsay S. Nixon

Description: A research-based podcast focusing on weight-loss, obesity, and nutrition.

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i-search podcast

Release Date: 10/16/2021

Authors: Fabio Garcia

Description: My podcast is based on my research findings for reaching a muscular physique.

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Caseybrague

Release Date: 08/27/2021

Authors: Casey Brague

Description: A podcast based on research about the impact of divorce on childhood development

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Evidence Based Hair

Release Date: 02/06/2022

Authors: Dr Jeff Donovan

Description: Evidence Based Hair is a weekly podcast that highlights recent hair loss research.

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The WatER Podcast

Release Date: 09/25/2020

Authors: Robbie Venis

Description: The podcast for the research project Water Education Research (WatER), based out of Carleton University. See our website at www.WatERCarleton.org

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GIER Action Masterclass

Release Date: 09/13/2020

Authors: Griffith University

Description: The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice architectures), and ‘research’ (as research within practice traditions). This Masterclass is based on their new Action Research Planner, and is a rare opportunity to understand critical participatory action research studies.

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A based

Release Date: 03/31/2021

Authors: Je'Nessa Kinsey

Description: A

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Trialled and Tested

Release Date: 03/24/2021

Authors: Evidence Based Education and Edurcation Endowment Foundation

Description: A new podcast by the Education Endowment Foundation and Evidence Based Education. Exploring education research evidence to inform teaching practice.

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The CREU Podcast

Release Date: 05/12/2021

Authors: CREU

Description: From the Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement (CREU) based at Stranmillis University College, Belfast, the CREU podcast is a space to unpack the complex issues in research related to educational underachievement.

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