Dave-- I'm not sure the theme is ignored; we unpredictable human beings just go in different directions from the basic questions. Of course, there will always be a certain number who take advantage of OS to bring out all their pet ideas/complaints/proposals--and there is always the Law of Two Feet if their colleagues have heard their story one time too many.
Sometimes when I think a session is off-topic, it turns out that I just did not understand some aspects of the subject as well as those inside the organization. I do try to test the proposed question on a few people to see if I have somehow obscured my meaning with jargon which may be unfamiliar to participants. Mostly, I do just what you did--let the meeting take its course. If participants are avoiding the hard questions, or going off on by-roads that really don't relate to the discussion at hand, that is also data about what is going on in the organization. And there is nothing to prevent members of the design team from posting sessions which are on-target, and see who shows up. Facilitating OS is, for me, an ongoing struggle to give up what I thought should happen in favor of what is really emerging. Some people call that letting go of attachment to outcome. Best wishes, Joelle Everett jleshel...@aol.com * * ========================================================== 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
