Hi Michael, I have a practical question - sorry, guys - were you looking for
me? I didn't recieve an answer to my private letter, so decide to ask you
through list.
for those who is interested, the Open Space Technology: user's guide by
Harrison Owen IN RUSSIAN is promised to be published on the 10-th of
February, you can order books on the address 0...@polybook.org the name of
the publisher - Tatiana Korobeinikova - for those in Russia the price will
be 500 roubles, delivery -free, it could be sent with the payment on
delivery, for those who is outside Russia - please contact Tatiana for bank
accounts numbers and so on.
I wish you all the best
Elena Marchuk
Novosibirsk
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From: "Michael M Pannwitz" <mmpa...@boscop.org>
To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 3:44 AM
Subject: Re: Practical Question
Dear Marty,
looking in from the outside this looks and feels like a very tasty taster.
Isn't every open space event a taster for the participants? And isn't it a
great thing for people to get the taste of it, like it and want more?
I just had the good fortune to facilitate a 3 day event with 130 folks
involved with the children of alcoholics, a "complete" open space, if you
like. Seems they got all the stuff you observed in your taster...just more
of it, but in essence, the same.
I imagine the point is that they struggled with a real business issue and
found that with ost they really got amazing mileage out of it...and had a
glimpse into the strange world of selforgnisation.
Keep delivering tasters, in fact, lets all do that!
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
Martin Boroson wrote:
Thank you all for your suggestions on my practical question. I went
with this structure: 45 minutes for intro and agenda, then 2 x 45
minute sessions, then 45 minutes for a closing circle. It worked
brilliantly. Perhaps calling this a 'taster' in my email was not quite
right, however.
This event was the whole afternoon in a full-day seminar on leadership
that
I presented to about 44 executives from 20 different corporations and one
large charity. The morning consisted of meditation and laughter
(presented as leadership
skills), plus a lecture on complexity, chaos, play, and newer leadership
styles. At lunchtime, I did a very fast re-set for an Open Space (I had
made the signs the night before). Thus the afternoon gave the
participants
a chance to experience Open Space as a leadership technique and also to
explore any issues that were provoked by the morning session. The theme
for
the afternoon was "What is my cutting-edge as a leader?" Despite the
short amount of time, they took to the process and had very
meaningful discussions. They posted about 12 topics and I had trouble
getting them to stop talking when it was time to close. Several people
got
significant help from their peers in solving organizational problems (or
discovered the answers for themselves). Everyone seemed to get into the
spirit of peer-learning, and most importantly, learn the benefit of
solving
problems by first asking other people for their ideas. Despite the short
amount of time, there was a definite sense of convergence,
in the closing circle, around one issue: Many of these leaders had felt
quite isolated in their organizations, particularly in their attempts to
explore more expanded ways of working, and were truly relieved to learn
that
other leaders in other organizations were also struggling with some of
the
same challenges. This Open Space gave them a chance to interact
inter-organizationally, and they loved it.
Although the event didn't demonstrate the full potential of Open Space,
it
sure did give them a meaningful conversation, a lively afternoon, and the
opportunity to explore a different way of leading a group. So, was that
a taster?
Marty
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