Invitations for Opens Space on Business Planning

[Meg Salter]

I have used OS for business planning sessions, although I don't have an
invitation (inspirational or otherwise) I can share with you.
Sample phrases that pop into mind:
- come and be part of it, help make it happen, create our future going
forward, insert your reality into the planning process
- sometimes I lilke to take stock organizational phrases and turn them on
their head, have fun with it, address the (not so) secret gripes that most
people have about being left out, or that their voice will be taken
seriously.

Hope this helps!

Meg Salter

MegaSpace Consulting
meg.salter at sympatico.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Willmott" <mwillmo at atrax.net.au>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 3:06 AM
Subject: Invitations for Opens Space on Business Planning


> Greetings to fellow listers from the ever-growing colder land of Oz,
>
> I am talking with a prospective client next Friday who is wanting to run
an
> Open Space for his business planning day to be held in May. My guess is
> that we will get to writing an invitation sometime during the meeting and
> I'm looking for examples of ones that have truly inspired people to come
to
> what is going to be seen as a "typical boring day doing business planning"
> If you've got one you're particularly proud of, I'd love to read it.
>
> If I may make one point clear before thanking in advance.
>
> I am not looking for something I can copy...Im looking for something that
> will give me suggestions about what might inspire this group...ideas I can
> think about over the next week and come up with my own suggestions for the
> client.
>
> In return, if it works, I'll post it to the list for others to share.
>
> If you want more detail about my client, then read on..otherwise thank you
> for your help. *s*
>
> The client is a small section within a large..read huge (20,000 staff
> across the whole of Australia) federal government organisation which has
> had many attempts, and is still trying (with some local successes) to
> become more of an interactive organisation, though they would not
recognise
> the phrase. This smaller part consists of about 20 people here in Canberra
> and perhaps 50 or so across the country.
>
> It's my hope to convince the client to extend the invitation to staff from
> interestate though inviting their clients is not an option since there
will
> be some quite sensitive information to be discussed such as upcoming
> government budget content (for instance)
>
> Enough from me...
>
> If you have something that I could read, I'd appreciate it greatly.
>
>
> Many thanks for this and contributing to such a great list. It has already
> become part of my day which I look forward to reading.
>
> Murray Willmott...
>
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