Meeting Procedure and OST

[Viv McWaters]

Hi all

I'm now back in Australia (home of OSonOSinOZ - yippee!!!) and starting to
think again of the more mundane things in life after the inspiration of
Vancouver (thanks everyone).

I'd like your advice on the use or not of OST for a Steering Committee that
I will soon have to chair. The Steering Committee will consist of about 15
- 20 members and will be responsible for the direction and conduct of a
Coastal Action Plan for a part of the Victorian Coast where I live (Bells
Beach). The group will meet when it needs to, usually for 2 - 3 hours, and
in the initial stages will set direction for the consultants who will
develop the Coastal Action Plan (this relates to management, conservation,
development, surfing evnets, access etc) and later on sign-off on the plan
as it's developed.

The members of the Steering Committee (which will be drawn from existing
Government and community organisations with a specific interest in the
Coastal Action Plan) will expect a standard meeting procedure - agenda,
minutes, business arising etc etc.

I can see how OST can be used in the initial meeting to clarify the issues
that need to be addressed in the Coastal Action Plan, but I'm less clear
about how OST could be used in subsequent meetings. Does anyone have any
experience or words of wisdom?

Thanks

Viv

Please note NEW telephone number

Viv McWaters
Beyond the Edge Pty Ltd
PO Box 665, Torquay 3228
Victoria Australia
Ph/Fax: 61 3 5261 9498
Mobile 0417 135 406

"Thus the task is not so much to see what no-one yet has seen, but to think
what nobody yet has thought about that which everyone sees." Schopenhauer

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