OSLIST Digest - 2 Aug 1998 to 7 Aug 1998

[Leon DeKing]

Dear Terry:
  I'm delighted with your request and sorry I cannot supply an immediate,
clear answer to your question about the "supervisor training dimensions" of
the Open Space experience.
        As a 1998 OSI board member I am struggling with the problem of
simplifying the process you have initiated...sorting through OS stories,
etc. in search of information about specific topics.  My efforts to date
have yielded
bushels of information, but none I immediately remember as having
supervisor training dimensions.  I will go through my OS reports and
stories stash and get back to you with the results.
        Have you looked at the <geocities> web site?  It's been a great
help to me.
        Your question doth delight me twice over.  Had you not raised it,
I'd probably not thought of OS based training of Super Supervisors as an
additional benefit to OS Event initiators, stakeholders and participants.
Thanks again for raising the question.  I will find ways to use improved
supervisor practice in my client wooing efforts.
        Aha!...a third reason for delight!  You've raised a perfect issue
for a net "site" Break out meeting.  Count me IN!
Yours Aye,
Leon



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>Date:    Fri, 7 Aug 1998
>From:    Terry Gibson <terry.gibson at virgin.net>
>Subject: Super Supervisor
>
>Hello OSLIST
>
>I'm looking for examples of corporations who have discovered the power
>of OS over traditional training in the specific realm of supervisor
>development.
>
>The initial request was to search out a 'best practice' template:
>
>- ------"Can you, as a training provider (of some repute!!), perhaps
>suggest
>areas in which it may be profitable to research or comment on how
>courses are structured or indeed what are the main attributes you see as
>
>going towards making the 'Super' Supervisor." -------------
>
>I see this as a real opportunity for the supervisors and supervised to
>enter OS and take responsibility for their own development needs. But
>first I have to convince some die hard, didactic trainers from a
>multinational HR department (oil industry) that OS has a track record of
>effective and successful change and is an ideal starting point towards
>the development of the 'Super Supervisor'.
>
>I would be most grateful for your success stories, especially where they
>include solid business and bottom line evidence. And any advice on a
>persuasive approach would be welcomed.
>
>Terry Gibson
>terry.gibson at virgin.net
>
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