Hi folks:
I am doing a two day open space with finance managers (about 60) from a
telecommunications company. The topic is How Can We Make Finance at "x"
organization a better, more productive place to work?
The idea is to get the middle managers to step up to participating more and
taking more r
Maybe I'm missing something, but why isn't everyone working together here? If
you give the work to the senior managers on the third day you lose all the
passion of the middle managers. It sounds like the senior managers think that
they are the only ones who can improve the company. It won't work
Hallo Esther:
Are the "senior" folks attending the first two days? It sounds like they
are not, but I think the answer to your question needs clarity on this
point...
Winston
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Subject: Re: A Different Kind of Convergence
Hi folks:
I am doing a two day open space with finance managers (about 60) from a
telecommunications company. The topic is How Can We Make Finance at "x"
or
Hello, Esther,
question to clarify the situation: are the senior managers present during the
first two days? Or do they step in later, for the third day only??
If the later is valid, you would probably need a lot of the 3rd day to help
seniors to find their way in the space that has been created du
Chris:
You are absolutely right. However here is the context and the "deal":
Everyone will be present for the open space including the senior folks (even
the CFO). However I was inserted late in the process and there wasn't room in
the hotel for everyone to stay for the third day.
And part of wh
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Hello, Esther,
question to clarify the situation: are the senior managers present during the
first two days? Or do they step in later, for the third day only??
If the later is valid, you would probably need a lot of the 3rd day to h
Esther: I have led a number of Open Space events where the results of an
Open Space were then reviewed by formal leadership with regard to moving
forward. If it is one of the senior team's conditions or parameters for
going forward, it does limit the direct spirit coming out of the space.
Howeve
