Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation

[Royle, Karl via OSList]

This is why this group is so great.

Thanks Brendan.

From: OSList  on behalf of Brendan 
McKeague via OSList 
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Date: Friday, 18 October 2019 at 11:22
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Cc: Brendan McKeague 
Subject: Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation

I remember opening space for a university a few years ago to engage with the 
question: how do we create a decade of teaching and learning excellence?

On that occasion it was for the senior staff and went well (I think!)

It would be wonderful to issue the same invitation to everyone from across the 
campus….

cheers
Brendan



On 18 Oct 2019, at 12:01 am, Royle, Karl via OSList 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:

Thank you Chris

That is very thought provoking and practical all rolled up into one. (

On 17/10/2019, 16:51, "OSList on behalf of Chris Corrigan via OSList" 
mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org>
 on behalf of 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

   This formulation from Harrison is powerful two reasons: 1. It is to the 
point and captures very simply the purpose of the gathering and 2. It is an 
entirely practical question. I love beautifully worded questions like Mary 
Oliver’s classic “What will do with your one wild and precious life?” but when 
we are doing strategic work it is critical that the question be simple so that 
the participants can bring the depth to it. My experience has been that any 
time I have sought to craft a beautiful question, me and the team would fall in 
love with it and that is entirely the wrong wy to approach an Open Space.  The 
purpose of the invitation is to get people into the room so they can fall in 
love with each other and the work they need to do. And so I love the "issues 
and opportunities” framing that Harrison has offered us from the beginning.  I 
find myself coming back to that framing more and more. If you can improve on 
the simplicity of “issues and opportunities” use that one and go!

   Having said that, almost more important than the wording of the invitation 
is the process of inviting. The more personal you can make it, and the more one 
on one conversations you can have with people that need to be there, the more 
ready they will be for the gathering.  As a friend once said “The conversation 
begins long before the meeting starts and ends long after the meeting is over.”

   Chris




On Oct 17, 2019, at 7:21 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList 
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote:

You will have to tailor to fit ... but the essence of the invitation I did 
several years ago with an all university Open Space was: "Making our University 
a place of real learning: Issues and opportunities" We had 600+ for two days 
ranging from maintenance staff to the President. Pretty deep and one of my 
observations was that no group that I could see (and there were too many to 
check them all) had just one sort of participant -- all Profs, all students... 
whatever. It was always a mixture which made the conversations very rich and 
deep. Just imagine the senior plumber seriously engaging senior faculty! Fun.

ho

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From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of 
Royle, Karl via OSList
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:15 AM
To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
Cc: Royle, Karl
Subject: Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation

Hi

I have managed to persuade our rather large University faculty to have a 
learning conversation using OS. This will replace a peer review exercise. So 
OST will be the first stage in setting an agenda for teams to identify and work 
on issues in teaching and learning that they think are of consequence  or need 
for change.

One issue for example might be the difference in achievement rates of BAME 
students as opposed to the rates in the student population as a whole.

I wondered if colleagues might have done something similar or if you have any 
examples of invitations. I realise there might be threads on this topic so 
apologise in advance for not finding them/saving them.

Best wishes

Karl

On 17/10/2019, 07:52, "OSList on behalf of Michael M Pannwitz via OSList" 
mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org>
 on behalf of 
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

  Dear Michael Herman,

  is there a space for videos on our

https://url6.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1iKzde-0005uZ-4b=57e1b682=Vp46tCHmzj1zQFpiVw4IXCsAUTztvN9DwuuNAVPXBHtYorNuc04rrOq0mWPd5pMXmGwFSPhIToAAh1H4hwuPkSuN5VKnmOaebHZHoHokYdbbk94nIeccBs1H895InBKcfJCyLMYYcqSySs-Tc88dNgx-7FaF2wh94_iwRvQq-1wtjadEUNvDKxyxOaLCDmTpvtkwO-spmPpQeucy3831QgMBgfPu-S7zyevStqtgiBw

  ??

  Have a grand day in Boise or wherever you are
  mmp

  Am 16.10.2019 um 23:40 schrieb anne stadler via OSList:

Video

Please upload to Vimeo Phelim. Then anyone can see it.
Is there an OST Channel on which to load it—on Vimeo or somewhere, Harold?

Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation

[Brendan McKeague via OSList]

I remember opening space for a university a few years ago to engage with the 
question: how do we create a decade of teaching and learning excellence?

On that occasion it was for the senior staff and went well (I think!) 

It would be wonderful to issue the same invitation to everyone from across the 
campus….

cheers
Brendan 
 

> On 18 Oct 2019, at 12:01 am, Royle, Karl via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> Thank you Chris
> 
> That is very thought provoking and practical all rolled up into one. (
> 
> On 17/10/2019, 16:51, "OSList on behalf of Chris Corrigan via OSList" 
>   on behalf of 
> oslist@lists.openspacetech.org > wrote:
> 
>This formulation from Harrison is powerful two reasons: 1. It is to the 
> point and captures very simply the purpose of the gathering and 2. It is an 
> entirely practical question. I love beautifully worded questions like Mary 
> Oliver’s classic “What will do with your one wild and precious life?” but 
> when we are doing strategic work it is critical that the question be simple 
> so that the participants can bring the depth to it. My experience has been 
> that any time I have sought to craft a beautiful question, me and the team 
> would fall in love with it and that is entirely the wrong wy to approach an 
> Open Space.  The purpose of the invitation is to get people into the room so 
> they can fall in love with each other and the work they need to do. And so I 
> love the "issues and opportunities” framing that Harrison has offered us from 
> the beginning.  I find myself coming back to that framing more and more. If 
> you can improve on the simplicity of “issues and opportunities” use that one 
> and go!
> 
>Having said that, almost more important than the wording of the invitation 
> is the process of inviting. The more personal you can make it, and the more 
> one on one conversations you can have with people that need to be there, the 
> more ready they will be for the gathering.  As a friend once said “The 
> conversation begins long before the meeting starts and ends long after the 
> meeting is over.”
> 
>Chris
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 17, 2019, at 7:21 AM, Harrison Owen via OSList 
>> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> You will have to tailor to fit ... but the essence of the invitation I did 
>> several years ago with an all university Open Space was: "Making our 
>> University a place of real learning: Issues and opportunities" We had 600+ 
>> for two days ranging from maintenance staff to the President. Pretty deep 
>> and one of my observations was that no group that I could see (and there 
>> were too many to check them all) had just one sort of participant -- all 
>> Profs, all students... whatever. It was always a mixture which made the 
>> conversations very rich and deep. Just imagine the senior plumber seriously 
>> engaging senior faculty! Fun.
>> 
>> ho
>> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: OSList [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org 
>> ] On Behalf Of Royle, Karl 
>> via OSList
>> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:15 AM
>> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list
>> Cc: Royle, Karl
>> Subject: Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I have managed to persuade our rather large University faculty to have a 
>> learning conversation using OS. This will replace a peer review exercise. So 
>> OST will be the first stage in setting an agenda for teams to identify and 
>> work on issues in teaching and learning that they think are of consequence  
>> or need for change. 
>> 
>> One issue for example might be the difference in achievement rates of BAME 
>> students as opposed to the rates in the student population as a whole. 
>> 
>> I wondered if colleagues might have done something similar or if you have 
>> any examples of invitations. I realise there might be threads on this topic 
>> so apologise in advance for not finding them/saving them.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Karl
>> 
>> On 17/10/2019, 07:52, "OSList on behalf of Michael M Pannwitz via OSList" 
>> > oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>> 
>>   Dear Michael Herman,
>> 
>>   is there a space for videos on our
>>> https://url6.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1iKzde-0005uZ-4b=57e1b682=Vp46tCHmzj1zQFpiVw4IXCsAUTztvN9DwuuNAVPXBHtYorNuc04rrOq0mWPd5pMXmGwFSPhIToAAh1H4hwuPkSuN5VKnmOaebHZHoHokYdbbk94nIeccBs1H895InBKcfJCyLMYYcqSySs-Tc88dNgx-7FaF2wh94_iwRvQq-1wtjadEUNvDKxyxOaLCDmTpvtkwO-spmPpQeucy3831QgMBgfPu-S7zyevStqtgiBw
>> 
>>   ??
>> 
>>   Have a grand day in Boise or wherever you are
>>   mmp
>> 
>>   Am 16.10.2019 um 23:40 schrieb anne stadler via OSList:
>>> Video
>>> 
>>> Please upload to Vimeo Phelim. Then anyone can see it.
>>> Is there an OST Channel on which to load it—on Vimeo or somewhere, Harold?
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 2:19 PM >> > wrote:

Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation

[Royle, Karl via OSList]

Many thanks Christine,

That is really useful as we have a tension between the OS format and the things 
that the senior management think the staff need to talk about. Framing it the 
way you have seems to do both.

Best wishes

Karl

P.S Loving your job title ☺

From: Christine Sanchez 
Date: Friday, 18 October 2019 at 01:31
To: Karl Royle , World wide Open Space Technology email list 

Cc: Peggy Holman 
Subject: Re: [OSList] Invitation formulation

Hi Karl,

I also work at a large university in the US and have used OST many times for 
small and large events. For example, last May, we hosted our 2nd community 
event for close to 800 IT Professionals across our vast system that serves 
114,000 students at the moment.  
https://uto.asu.edu/empower/2019.

I opened the space in the afternoon with this convening question: Using the 
eight design aspirations as guidance, what are ASU’s IT issues and 
opportunities for enabling and catalyzing strategic innovation, community 
delight and operational excellence?

An article summarizing the day can be found here: 
https://asunow.asu.edu/20190531-empower-2019-brings-together-asu-it-professionals-innovate-future

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks to Peggy Holman for making sure I saw your post.

Namaste,

[cid:image001.png@01D5859A.6CE3E4B0]

Christine Whitney Sanchez (she, her, hers)
Chief Culture Officer
University Technology Office
Arizona State University
Phone: 480.882.8281



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Date: October 17, 2019 at 1:14:50 AM PDT
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Hi

I have managed to persuade our rather large University faculty to have a 
learning conversation using OS. This will replace a peer review exercise. So 
OST will be the first stage in setting an agenda for teams to identify and work 
on issues in teaching and learning that they think are of consequence  or need 
for change.

One issue for example might be the difference in achievement rates of BAME 
students as opposed to the rates in the student population as a whole.

I wondered if colleagues might have done something similar or if you have any 
examples of invitations. I realise there might be threads on this topic so 
apologise in advance for not finding them/saving them.

Best wishes

Karl

On 17/10/2019, 07:52, "OSList on behalf of Michael M Pannwitz via OSList" 
 wrote:

   Dear Michael Herman,

   is there a space for videos on our


https://url6.mailanyone.net/v1/?m=1iKzde-0005uZ-4b=57e1b682=Vp46tCHmzj1zQFpiVw4IXCsAUTztvN9DwuuNAVPXBHtYorNuc04rrOq0mWPd5pMXmGwFSPhIToAAh1H4hwuPkSuN5VKnmOaebHZHoHokYdbbk94nIeccBs1H895InBKcfJCyLMYYcqSySs-Tc88dNgx-7FaF2wh94_iwRvQq-1wtjadEUNvDKxyxOaLCDmTpvtkwO-spmPpQeucy3831QgMBgfPu-S7zyevStqtgiBw

   ??

   Have a grand day in Boise or wherever you are
   mmp

   Am 16.10.2019 um 23:40 schrieb anne stadler via OSList:


Video

Please upload to Vimeo Phelim. Then anyone can see it.
Is there an OST Channel on which to load it—on Vimeo or somewhere, Harold?
Thanks!

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