SV: 2 days of OS with 7 weeks in between

[Thomas Herrmann]

Hi Lisa & all
Thanks for sharing! I guess this was intended for the OSLIST so I answer
there. I had a couple more replies directly which I think were intended for
the list. I tried replying to my own posting and my address comes up. Does
anyone know why?

We have thought about the issue of how to get people to use the forum, if it
is the right thing for them. Firstly they are used to using computors, but
not in this way.
The convenors will have to write their report on the forum, either directly
on our island or when they get back home. That is a lot easier in this case
as they are only 11 participants. I will also have a couple of computors on
site, only one connection to internet though, so that everybody may have a
look at the forums and also try them out a bit. I will probably connect that
one to a screen so it will be easier for others to view, if they like.
Finally they will have the possibility to post topics to be worked on, for
the forum. I think I will have a space on the wall for that at the start and
give another possibility at combined evening/morning news (+ other means of
working)
Best regards and thanks for your support
Thomas

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Lisa Heft [mailto:lisaheft at pacbell.net]
> Skickat: den 15 augusti 2002 02:37
> Till: thomas at OPENSPACECONSULTING.COM
> Ämne: RE: 2 days of OS with 7 weeks in between
>
>
> Hi, Thomas and everybody --
>
> I did a strategic planning OS with 115 people -- two weekends with two
> months separating them.
>
> Weekend 1 we came up with strategies to meet the issues and
> opportunities surrounding three themes/areas the organization
> was going
> to fund and develop (or maintain / sustain if they already existed).
> Clearly this weekend was for coming up will all possible strategies.
> The two months later weekend was available but with an open objective.
>
> Weekend 1 closed with 'look at our amazing work' and 'to be continued'
> news, and a group agreement that we would all return Weekend #2 for
> working towards convergence.  This brought up a need for some
> of them to
> express their feelings about lack of closure (for some) and commitment
> to working in-between (for others).
>
> During the time in between participants received print or electronic
> (whatever was their preference) working notes from Weekend 1, plus an
> electronic discussion list was set up (though nobody much
> used it -- in
> this case they were doing so much other work in-between and they were
> geographically separated -- when asked they indicated they were fine
> with the mini-group working which self-selected to do some work on
> things in-between -- a few people called into that mini-group to add
> their thoughts on the work projects).  The mini-group met to organize
> the strategies (with the full group's permission) into clusters and
> themes.
>
> During the time in between, also, the sponsor did more work on what
> could become available in resources, implementation and infrastructure
> money and staff time, (they had gotten a good idea from
> Weekend #1 about
> possibilities) and developed a system for communicating the results of
> Weekend 2 throughout their geographic area, both electronically and in
> local gatherings.
>
> Weekend #2 we all 115 people returned; we looked at the clustered
> themes, the group reworked them, discussed and reached consensus on
> them, and converged / voted the top
> these-are-the-strategies-we-shall-move-forward-on.  The
> closing was also
> a celebration of both the great work and of giving the results forward
> to a staff team to fill in the numbers for the actual plan.
>
> It was really great to not have an objective for Weekend #2
> until we all
> saw where Weekend #1 got us (everyone knew there would be probably 2
> weekends and scheduled themselves accordingly).  The other
> really great
> thing is that we opened up the OS design process on the Friday night,
> and a group of 20 participants worked with us on design for
> the next 1.5
> days of the weekend.  Obviously this created a much better
> process than
> any of us on the original design team could have developed.
>
> They are in good hands with you as their guide, Thomas,
>
> Lisa
>
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