Hi Linda, Thank you for your swift reply, we are inviting about 35 people in middle management positions (of which we expect most to attend). I think it would be wise to invite the board as other people as well to increase diversity and perspectives but it's not up to me to decide on that. The issue at hand concerns making people taking more ownership of their personal development. Now management is in control on who should develop which skills / competences so they are adequately equiped to carry out their work based on the needs of our clients (we are providing IT consulting services to other organisations, mostly by posting employees on customer premises). We would like to have people take personal accountability and proactively seek ways to fasten their career and improve on their job readiness and job mobility. The goal of this OST meeting is to itendtify issues to be addressed so that people (both management and employees) are empowered to actually change their behaviour which is needed to reach the intended goals. Regards jeroen From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Linda Stevenson Sent: dinsdag 29 mei 2012 14:41 To: os list Subject: Re: [OSList] number of topics and number of timeslots, presence board members Dear Jeroen, How many people you are expecting to attend? That will help you decide up front how many concurrent sessions and therefore breakout areas will be appropriate. Once that matrix of post-its is created, participants themselves will self-manage and self-organize their time together - no help needed on your part except to hold the space open including any plans for evening activities on the night of day 1 - in other words the space is open from the morning of day 1 until you close it on day 2. As for board members why not invite them to the whole Open Space? Open Space can end in a variety of ways, but it is not about "presenting back" - again, can you say more what you have in mind? Don't close the space before you close the space! All the very best, Linda ________________________________ From: jeroen.erm...@kpn.com<mailto:jeroen.erm...@kpn.com> To: oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 14:11:19 +0200 Subject: [OSList] number of topics and number of timeslots, presence board members Dear all, I am about to facilitate an 1,5 - 2 day OST meeting. On the first day all topics are posted on the bulletin board, people decide themselves when these topics are discussed in which breakout room. I have four timeslots on day one (maybe 2 more on the morning of day 2), the convergence/nest step action planning fase is planned for day 2 I have the following questions: 1) Are all topics discussed once in one of the timeslot on day one or can a topic be discussed in 2 (or maybe even four) timeslots, which effectively is inhibiting other people's topics to be discussed. 2) are all timeslots meant to be used for new topics or is there a moment when participants decide which of the topics discussed in the previous timeslots are to be discussed in further detail. Or to put it in other words, is there only one moment for convergence (prior to action planning) or can you also narrow down the topics in an earlier fase? 3) Is is it advisable (or not) to have board members (who will not participate in the OST meeting) to be present when the results of convergence/action planning is presented back to the participants? I'm afraid i've used more than 150 words, but still hope for an answer (or 2) :) Kjnds regards, Jeroen ermers _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org> To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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