Dear Colleagues, A few days back, while I was on assignment in Ethiopia, a consulting firm I have long association with emailed to say they needed me to cover a 2 day management training and team building job with a US Govt office in DC.
Fair enough I thought. The consulting firm knows me well and our history together has always been one of success. I asked for and received a Statement of Work (SOW) that was the usual referencing of interactive approaches to building cooperation, respect and a sense of teamwork. Based on the SOW, I wrote a proposal for a 1 1/2 day Open Space conference with the theme, Looking for Opportunities to Improve Our Teamwork. The proposal was accepted by the client. I am now Stateside. I just talked with the client and things look pretty ugly. I now know the real interest in this exercise is to get rid of one or two of the office employees. These two people are viewed by a new management (my clients) as subversives, if not terrorists. The new boss wants them gone. In 5 days I am scheduled to do this Open Space with six employees including the boss. I am not at all reluctant to change my proposal and do my hard hat management consultant routine. On the other hand this might be a perfect OST opportunity. What say you? eg Elwin Guild Future Development International Baltimore elwinandj...@yahoo.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
