"professional" signs question from Ed Ball

Sat Aug 31 18:59:32 PDT 2002

Hi Ed,

sorry for being late with my two penses, but I do want to add some thoughts
to many nice already said.

We do use hand-drawn signs both in Future Search Conference and in OST
meetings as we discovered long ago in our training sessions that
nice-printed black&white computer sings are not 'visible' to participants,
they are not 'typed' in the mind as if they are not existing

Also the hand-drawn flip charts give the participant the feeling, that they
can do them themselves. If not much on OST meeting (with ready forms of
reports), but still we often use big flipcharts and give participants to
have a chance to learn how to speak and others to share the ideas if there
is time and nessassity, on FSCs we use a lot reports of the group on flip
charts, so when the participants  see our hand-made material, they are not
scared to draw their own ideas on the paper. Of course you have much more
longer history of using flipcharts in many countries, then we do in Russia,
but we still have some participants who says: why do we need to 'spoil' so
many paper. Even with ready forms, not saying about big flipcharts. People
are not ready here to write down their ideas, and when we give them this
example, it helps them to express themselves more constructively.

We had once a computer designed 'flipcharts', nice but black&white ones,
made by architects.... but they could not be compared even with the joyful
colorful flipcharts we brought with us (though not professional-made), they
were not 'seen'.

Also once after some critics about our falling flipcharts... and the next
presentation made in CoralDraw about using Internet in many cases, one
person said - Here, that was an excellent presentation! And my collegue
Marina said: yes, I was watching you - you was sleeping in the dark....

The resume - the self made drawings are more 'human', they untie hands of
participants, they bring them closer to their feelings, even irritating them
when falling....

best wishes

elena

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From: "Edward Ball" <OpenSpace01 at aol.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: "professional" signs question from Ed Ball

> Good morning, from SoCal
>
> A potential client has asked if OST facilitators from around the world use
hand-drawn signs rather than ones from professional sign-makers.  So, my two
questions to you are:
>
> 1. Do you draw your own signs (Laws, Givens, etc.) or do you use signs
produced by professional sign-makers?
>
> 2. Based on your own experiences what might be the difference in the
results?
>
> The potential client is planning a series of open forums with the
personalized invitations going to key regional players from the business and
educational commumities.
>
> Thank you for your feedback,
> Edward C. Ball, Associate
> Hanna & Associates
> "Serving Boards That Lead"
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> Banning, California 92220-1283 USA
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>From  Sun Sep  1 14:37:54 2002
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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 14:37:54 +0200
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From: Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
Subject: Hitting reply button
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Does anyone know why hitting the reply button to a posting sometimes
addresses me directly to one person, whilst it sometimes goes to the
OSLIST??

Thomas Herrmann

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>From  Sun Sep  1 14:38:59 2002
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From: Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
Subject: Improving working conditions/health amongst the staff of a large
 hospital
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Dear friends in Open Space
I am wondering a bit , was I clear about my issue in my earlier posting? The
question at hand is how to improve working conditions/health amonst the
staff of this hospital (in fact three hospitals within the same
organization). One concern of my sponsor is how to reach out to all
employees, and how to get all involved.

Right now I am thinking of one possibility. I have a brother who is a
professional TV/Video producer. One way could be to facilitate an OST
involving people from all levels of the organization. Have a nice
videoproduction of the process and the results. This could be one way to get
the message across the organization, that these issues are in focus right
now and the first step has been taken. The OST event would have to be really
grounded in the leadership (as always) so that the participants are free to
move the hot topics ahead, involving more of the people who wish to join in.
Next step could be to let these topics go on, as well as work within
different units of the hospital to get the process going all over.

What do you think of this idea? Any other experiences from working with
large organizations and with an issue that is to be worked with all over?
Best regards
Thomas Herrmann         Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81
Open Space Consulting   Fax   +46 (0)300-713 89
Pensévägen 4
434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden
Email: thomas at openspaceconsulting.com
www.openspaceconsulting.com

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