Hi, everybody. I would appreciate your thoughts on this issue. Recently I opened space for 130 municipal leaders from one municipality. The conference lasted for two days and due to different reasons we did not come around to actionplanning. 30 reports were produced, priority-voting and related issues were grouped together. Before leaving everybody received the book of proceedings.
In short the energy ran out in the end of the 2 days and the closing was very weak. The participants did expect to do an actionplan but this did not happen. The main reason was that I had a sponsor who suddenly didn't want the actionplan to get done. On top of that I was not present enough due to having taken too much responsability for the computorstation. On top of that I did a little miscalculation of the time... Anyway here I am. I/we screwed up, although many of the participants thought the 2 days were very interesting and stimulating (day one was great). I have met with the sponsors and I am happy we agreed to get on with the actionplanning and including the decisionmakers in the work. We will focus on the 6 top-priority issues. Keeping employees, good leadership, two versions of issues related to workingconditions, how get a feeling of "being one", how to get time to work with improving quality. Most of them are huge enough to make an open space about. I see three alternatives right now but would surely appreciate your thoughts on this! 1. Invite the ones who brought up the top issues to a facilitated process together with the decisionmakers, around how to go on with these issues. (e g Harissons three levels do/talk/OST) 2. Invite to an afternoon of actionplanning - all in one group that will split up into the different issues ending with a short report out and a little time for discussions. 3. 6 separate meetings processfacilitated to reach an actionplan on each of them. I will have to come with my propositions by tomorrow night so if you have the possibility to share, I would appreciate that so much. Warm greetings from a getting-cold Sweden Thomas Herrmann * * ========================================================== 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