A little report

[Thomas Herrmann]

Hi friends
Today I facilitated the OST conference mentioned below. The theme focused on
how to make the company "one", they used to be more than 20 independent
parts belonging to a "mother-organization" but are now (as we say in Sweden)
"under one hat".
High energy and a lot of learning for the 250 participants. They produced 30
reports which will be put on a newly designed forum on the intranet of that
organization. The principles and the law are running all the way, including
the follow up meeting the 12th of June. I find that pretty amazing, in
virtual forums the law and the principles do function, a good example is our
OS-list.

The organization is one of the largest managementconsulting companies in
Sweden. They were very excited to be in Open Space and many of them asked
how to learn more. Already two of them have been to my trainings and maybe
we can get an inhouse training going after this event. And maybe be able to
get deeper into transforming the organization. As one of the participants
said: "Yesterday we had a man from a company that refines wood (papermill)
telling us how to run a healthy company. Actually we should be the ones to
know! In two years time we´ll visit them, telling about what we have
achieved." (They had a "regular" conferenceday yesterday.)

I will meet with the managers in a few weeks to follow up and design the
follow up meeting. In that meeting not all of the employees can participate
because that will be too costly. They live all over Sweden. Probably the
convenors will be invited together with management, make priorities and work
out action plans.

Greetings from Thomas Herrmann

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> Thomas Herrmann
> Skickat: den 30 mars 2003 21:12
> Till: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Ämne: SV: Priorization in short time
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>
> Hi friends.
> Just to let you know how it all went. So far so good. The CEO
> has been a bit
> sick. So I just received the confirmation today(!)that we
> will set up a
> virtual forum and have a follow up meeting in two months
> time. So on tuesday
> (8.30-15.00)we will have three sessions of 1,15 hours, a demo
> of the forum
> and then closing. Thanks for your generous sharing. I will
> let you know how
> it went.
> Regards Thomas
>
> > -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: Thomas Herrmann [mailto:thomas at openspaceconsulting.com]
> > Skickat: den 26 februari 2003 19:27
> > Till: OSLIST (E-mail)
> > Ämne: Priorization in short time
> >
> >
> > Dear friends in Open Space
> > I have an upcoming Open Space conference with 250 persons for
> > a not full day (8.30-15.00). I am working with management to
> > get another day further down the line to continue but that
> > might not succeed. I don´t want to spend much time on
> > convergence if we only get this day. The theme is to be
> > worked out in a premeeting with the 20 or so managers, next
> > week. I suspect that they want quite some space in the theme
> > why I hope to get more time.
> >
> > I am thinking of trying to schedule two 1,15 hours timeslots
> > and one one-hour timeslot for sessions. We will need an hour
> > for lunch and I hope we can make the introduction and
> > agendasetting in 45 mts. That leaves 1,15 hours for closing.
> > Has anyone a suggestion for some kind of priorization that is
> > really fast, just to get a picture on what the hot topics are
> > right now. Sometimes, in one day OST´s I do this only out of
> > the names of the topics, without giving the chance to read. I
> > would like to give everyone a chance to talk in the closing
> > so how will we manage that?
> > Any suggestions appreciated
> > 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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