Role templates are one of the easiest ways to save time when designing a new organization on Holaspirit. Quickly add personalized templates to your organization’s chart and speed up your design.
There might be some roles that will be used in multiple teams or that will take over important accountabilities in their circles. Instead of creating these roles manually every time, you can create role templates to save time.
You can access all your role templates in the Administration settings. By default, role templates for Holacracy 5.0 roles are already created, feel free to use them, edit them or create your own templates!
Create a Role template
👤 Role templates are managed by platform administrators, but available for all users to use within the organization.
To create a new role template, go to Administration:
Go to the Role templates section
Click on Add a template
Fill in the Name, Purpose, Domains, and Accountabilities or import a role template
Click on Save to confirm
Edit a Role template
The template the role was created from are synchronised. If the template is modified, so will the role.
Click on the 3 dots next to the template
Select Edit template
Edit the desired fields and click on Save, then Validate
📌 Note: Any changes made to the role templates are automatically applied to the roles created from it.
Delete a role template
Click on the 3 dots next to the template
Select Delete template, then Delete
📌 Note: You cannot delete role templates that are defined as Core Roles in the Circle settings section in Administration. If you want to delete them, you must first remove them from Core roles.
Lock a Role Template
Administrators of the organization can lock the role templates to keep their core content and add extra accountabilities. This action preserves the link between the role and the template. To lock a role template, swipe the lock button next to the chosen template and confirm the action.
When a role template is locked, members of the organization can only add extra accountabilities and domains to the template's core content. They will be visible as additional in the role page. The link between role and its template is preserved.
When the role template is not locked, members of organization can freely unlink the role from its template by editing it.
Create a Role from a Role Template
From the Governance app
Go to the Roles tab
Click on the Add button then Add a role
Select Import a role template
Select the Parent circle for the role to be part of
Select the Role template
📌 Note: If the chosen role template is locked, you can only add additional accountabilities and domains to its core content.
From the Circle page
Click on Add, then Add a role
Select Import a role template
Select the Role template
From there, the process is the same no matter where you add a new role from:
You can explain the reason you are creating a role
If your organization or circle is set in open decision mode, click on Validate and the role will be created in real time.
If your organization is set in consent decision mode, you need for the other members of your circle to consent to your proposal of adding a new role to the circle. You have created your proposal, now you can:
Submit your proposal to your circle.
Save your proposal in the Proposals app to review it and submit it when you are ready.
Add your proposal to an existing one, already saved in the Proposals app.
Apply a Role template to an existing role
Holaspirit allows you to apply role templates to existing roles in order to save time when redesigning and structuring your organization.
👤 You need to be a member of the circle the role is part of, and the role template you want to apply to the role must already be created.
⚠️ Important: When applying a role template to an existing role, its Name, Purpose, Domains and Accountabilities will be permanently replaced by the ones of the template.
Go to the role page
Click on the three dots in the top right
Select Apply to role template
Select the role template in the drop-down list
If your organization is set up in Open decision mode, click on Validate at the bottom of the page to apply the evolution
If your organization is set up in Consent decision mode, click Submit to send your proposal to your teammates for them to vote on or Save as a proposal in your Proposals app to review and submit later (Read more)
The role and its template are synchronised:
👉 If the template is modified, so will the role.
👉 If the template is locked, it will be only possible to add additional accountabilities and domains to it core content.
👉 If the role template is not locked, it will be possible to edit the role core content. Then, they will be desynchronised. You will be notified of this when editing the role.
Set a Role template as a Core Role
If you want a role template to be created automatically when creating circles for your organization, you can make it a Core Role:
Go to Administration
Go to Circle Settings
In the Core roles section, select the role template of your choice in the drop-down menu
Click on Save at the bottom of the page to confirm
📌 Note: If you add a Core Role, it will automatically be added to all the circles that will be created, as well as the existing circles in your organization. If you remove a Core Role from these settings, the role added to existing circles will be removed and, therefore, what constitutes it.
Export the list of members assigned to Role templates
You can export the list of all members assigned to all the roles synchronised with this role template in your organization.
Go to Administration, then:
Go to the Role templates section
Click on the three dots next to the template of your choice
Select Export members
You can also identify de-synced roles through global export and your circle export.