Practice Workshop in
ADVANCED PROGRAM IN OPEN SPACE TECHNOLOGY Focusing On the Open Space
Organization
Presenter Judith Richardson
Pono Consultants International
www.ponoconsultants.com
Sponsored by THE SPENCER GROUP
AUTHENTIC WORKPLACE SOLUTIONS
September 9, 10, 11,12, 2002 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mark the date in your calendar, reserve your place and pass this along to other
people you know who are working to create organizations that work!
We invite you to join us. Leaders, Educators, Managers and Facilitators who
have some experience with Open Space Technology and want more. Learn how to
develop and sustain...
Organizations of excellence
Organizations that are flexible and successful with change
Organizations with high staff morale
Organizations with high productivity
Organizations with high innovation and creativity for sustained success.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Senior and middle managers - seeking new levels of spirit and performance
Functional specialists - in strategic planning, marketing, and human resources,
seeking new, practical ways to deal with complex issues and projects and to
navigate within the chaos of our times.
Consultants - in organizational change or management development.
Educators - trainers and anyone else responsible for others' learning.
Anyone looking for powerful new perspectives and practices for leadership,
learning and transformation in organizations.
Open Space Technology (OST) helps create organizations that work. Used in over
60 countries, OST enables all kinds of people, in any kind of organization, to
create inspired events and meetings. Over the last 15 years, it has also become
clear that opening space, as an intentional leadership practice, can create
inspired organizations, where ordinary people work together to create
extraordinary results with regularity. This workshop is about the meetings, the
organizations and the possibilities that are emerging in Open Space, as we push
beyond the immediate benefit of great meetings, toward exploring and creating
the conditions we need for effective self-organization, natural learning, and
sustainable high performance in organizations and communities.
A combination of informal presentation and real open space experiences will
give all participants maximum opportunity to connect the principles and
practices of Open Space to their own unique circumstances and issues. It's high
learning, high play and high productivity. Come join us!
THE PROGRAM
Day One
We explore the issues and opportunities for the development of organizations of
excellence focusing on the experience gained during Open Space Technology
meetings.
Day Two
Converging the issues and opportunities uncovered in Open Space to move them to
action. Exploration of the "nuts and bolts" of conducting an Open Space
Technology meeting, drawing from that which we experienced together and that
which we have questions about from previous experiences of facilitating Open
Space Technology meetings or from leading an organization in which Open Space
Technology is used.
Day Three
How organizations say they work and how they really do work. Organizational
style, lifecycle, structure, process. Merging the formal and informal
organizations. Identifying the critical ingredients that we must pay attention
to in the Open Space Organization.
Day Four
De-mything the organization by identifying the "givens" and identifying the
space where there is freedom for creativity, innovation, the full potential of
the workforce released for great success. Developing the organization.
Sustaining a high performing organization.
THE PRESENTER
Judith Richardson has a passion for assisting to co-create healthy
organizational cultures and lives that work powerfully and effectively inside
those cultures. As principal of Pono Consultants International, Judith
Richardson works internationally as an independent manager, facilitator,
learning consultant, and writer. As an external strategic partner to your
group, she will help expand options, minimize roadblocks, set priorities,
document results, and increase capacity. Those learning from her are assured of
the perspective of both leader and facilitator and the relationship between the
two. For more information on these workshops see www.ponoconsultants.com
So mark the date in your calendar, reserve your place and pass this along to
other people you know who are working to create organizations that work!
Contact Michael Spencer: Telephone (902) 497-4404 or e-mail
[email protected]
Registration Details
Registration fee covers workshop tuition, materials, lunches and breaks.
Your Investment
$900 + 135 (HST) = $1035 Cdn
Make cheques payable to: The Spencer Group
Address cheques to: P.O. Box 44121, Bedford N.S. B4A 3X5
Please register me for
Advanced Open Space Technology September 9, 10, 11, 12, 2002
Payment of $___________ is enclosed.
Michael Spencer
The Spencer Group
Authentic Workplace Solutions
[email protected]
(902) 497-4404
Judith Richardson
[email protected]
Pono Consultants International
Facilitating the Flow of Inspired Collaboration
(902) 435-0308
www.ponoconsultants.com
