Invitations for Opens Space on Business Planning

Thu Apr 12 07:22:54 PDT 2001

Murray, We have had success in applying Apppreciative Inquiry and OS
together in business planning with an agency in the Canadian public service.
We worked with the leadership team to identify issues and opportunities to
be addressed in the business plan - mainly around OD, OE, HR- and then used
these as the topics for dialogue and inquiry. It worked well in this context
where there was much cynicism about change after 5 years of  top-down driven
reorganizations. The invitation to participate was as significant and
powerful in rebuilding trust and excitement about change as were the
specific strategies and tactics that resulted. I don't have the details with
me at this time, but topics included information sharing, communications and
teamwork; rewards and recognition; performance; professional and career
development; training....

Bruce Halliday    403-777-2364
#1000 - 500 - 4 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB  T2P 2V6
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Garth Toombs & Associates Inc., Alberta
Division, Verity Filion Inc. Canada
Lee Hecht Harrison, Global Partner
www.garthtoombs.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Willmott" <mwillmo at ATRAX.NET.AU>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:06 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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>From  Thu Apr 12 09:34:08 2001
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:34:08 -0500
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From: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>
Organization: Michael Herman Associates
Subject: Re: Invitations for Opens Space on Business Planning
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hello murray...

have just completed a whole new section of my website.  it's called
'invitation resources' and has what i think are four excellent examples
of invites from businesses.  there are other things in this collection,
as well.  have a look for yourself at
http://www.michaelherman.com/invitations

good luck, michael

--

Michael Herman
300 West North Avenue #1105
Chicago IL 60610
312-280-7838 voice
312-280-7837 fax

http://www.michaelherman.com
-michael herman associates - consulting
-evolution at work - online book of open space
-invitation resources - open space workbook
-websites worth visiting - community
-michael's open notebook - journal

mailto:mherman at globalchicago.net

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>From  Thu Apr 12 09:52:13 2001
Message-Id: <THU.12.APR.2001.095213.0500.>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:52:13 -0500
Reply-To: mherman at globalchicago.net
To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
From: Michael Herman <mherman at globalchicago.net>
Organization: Michael Herman Associates
Subject: Re: Invitations for Opens Space on Business Planning
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whoops. got that invitations address wrong... <grin>

http://www.michaelherman.com will go to the homepage

http://www.globalchicago.net/invitations will go directly to the
invitation resources section.

--

Michael Herman
300 West North Avenue #1105
Chicago IL 60610
312-280-7838 voice
312-280-7837 fax

http://www.michaelherman.com
-michael herman associates - consulting
-evolution at work - online book of open space
-invitation resources - open space workbook
-websites worth visiting - community
-michael's open notebook - journal

mailto:mherman at globalchicago.net

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>From  Thu Apr 12 18:05:44 2001
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:05:44 +0100
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From: Martin Leith <martinleith at theinnovationagency.com>
Subject: Re: Logistics Questions - large OS
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Meg,

Sounds like a typical OS meeting to me!

We usually put the capacity of the room in a corner of the Post-it, circled.
So if someone takes a Post-it saying (12) and they can see they have 20
signatures, they can find a bigger room – or arrange for more chairs –
before getting to the room.

This works just fine.

Good luck with the session.

Martin

(Member of Fast Company ‘Company of Friends’ London cell!)

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