Dear Harrison,
actually, I often have felt the way you describe, why dont they just
send out an invitation to everyone!
I never made it a condition for taking on the job.
However, I have made it a condition to have both a contact meeting
(mostly to have the sponsor look at the prerequisites for an OST) and a
Planning Meeting.
If they agree and actually take those two steps (sometimes it ends with
the contact meeting, because they feel the prerequisites are not in
place), the result has always been to send out invitations to more than
originally intended or to everyone in their system and often folks they
never had had on their screen before.
What I like about this approach is that its them making the decisions
and their passion and responsibility.
Greetings from Berlin
mmp
On 11.06.2013 17:31, Harrison Owen wrote:
Right on! Chuni!! Given the nature of the issue, doing a OS with the
WHOLE company (at least all those who care about the company) is really
critical. The wisdom of nine contrasted with the collective wisdom and
experience of everybody else is pretty small, to say the least. And the
buy in from everybody else who is not included will be, predictably,
smaller. Paul, do yourself and your client a real favor. Have this
conversation with them. If it were me, unless there were huge
extenuating circumstances (which I couldn’t imagine) I would make
companywide (voluntary) participation a condition of my participation.
Sounds a little harsh I guess, but experience, sometimes bitter, has
taken me there. And if you question whether such a tender situation
could be effectively dealt with by all parties in Open Space... The
answer is quite simple: YES. In fact that is where Open Space really
shines. If you look through the book, “Tales from Open Space” – you will
find the story of a large company of 2500 downsizing itself to 1200 –
all in a series of Open Spaces. You can find a copy at:
http://openspaceworld.com/Tales.pdf
Harrison
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Hi Paul,
I will comment on the 2nd part of your question.
Issues like new org structure and downsizing have wide impact. These
types of issues can be a very good theme for a wider audience than the
9-person management team (if not the entire organization). I would
suggest to the management team to consider inviting the whole
organization to come and see how cares to show up.
Who knows? The collective wisdom may lead to solutions better than
downsizing.
At the minimum, if people understand the issues and challenges well, and
participate in the grieving process of restructuring, they can deal with
the pain of downsizing better.
Chuni
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List,
Apologies if this is a recurrent question... Would opening space at
management team level (9 persons) would work? The issue is a burning
'new company structure' eventually facing a downsize. I have experienced
to host larger groups OS but wonder how it would be also useful in a
smaller group context.
My question is twofold:
- would a OS session of 9 persons would work in terms of marketplace
dynamics, would the sessions be too small?
- If that works well, then I wonder if extending results to the
remainder of the company not in the OS meeting would be effective?
Your experience would be much valued!
Best
Paul
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