Murray, We have had success in applying Apppreciative Inquiry and OS together in business planning with an agency in the Canadian public service. We worked with the leadership team to identify issues and opportunities to be addressed in the business plan - mainly around OD, OE, HR- and then used these as the topics for dialogue and inquiry. It worked well in this context where there was much cynicism about change after 5 years of top-down driven reorganizations. The invitation to participate was as significant and powerful in rebuilding trust and excitement about change as were the specific strategies and tactics that resulted. I don't have the details with me at this time, but topics included information sharing, communications and teamwork; rewards and recognition; performance; professional and career development; training....
Bruce Halliday 403-777-2364 #1000 - 500 - 4 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB T2P 2V6 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Garth Toombs & Associates Inc., Alberta Division, Verity Filion Inc. Canada Lee Hecht Harrison, Global Partner www.garthtoombs.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Murray Willmott" <mwil...@atrax.net.au> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: Invitations for Opens Space on Business Planning > Greetings to fellow listers from the ever-growing colder land of Oz, > > I am talking with a prospective client next Friday who is wanting to run an > Open Space for his business planning day to be held in May. My guess is > that we will get to writing an invitation sometime during the meeting and > I'm looking for examples of ones that have truly inspired people to come to > what is going to be seen as a "typical boring day doing business planning" > If you've got one you're particularly proud of, I'd love to read it. > > If I may make one point clear before thanking in advance. > > I am not looking for something I can copy...Im looking for something that > will give me suggestions about what might inspire this group...ideas I can > think about over the next week and come up with my own suggestions for the > client. > > In return, if it works, I'll post it to the list for others to share. > > If you want more detail about my client, then read on..otherwise thank you > for your help. *s* > > The client is a small section within a large..read huge (20,000 staff > across the whole of Australia) federal government organisation which has > had many attempts, and is still trying (with some local successes) to > become more of an interactive organisation, though they would not recognise > the phrase. This smaller part consists of about 20 people here in Canberra > and perhaps 50 or so across the country. > > It's my hope to convince the client to extend the invitation to staff from > interestate though inviting their clients is not an option since there will > be some quite sensitive information to be discussed such as upcoming > government budget content (for instance) > > Enough from me... > > If you have something that I could read, I'd appreciate it greatly. > > > Many thanks for this and contributing to such a great list. It has already > become part of my day which I look forward to reading. > > Murray Willmott... > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > =========================================================== > osl...@egroups.com > To subscribe, > 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist > 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, > and choose a login ID and password > 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions > > To unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: > 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist > 2. Sign in and Proceed * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
