1. Anecdote 2. Request

[Seamus McInerney]

Hi Lisa,
I love your clusters list and would live to see your notes.

Shay


>OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU> wrote:

>
> Hi, Ralph --
>
> You asked:
> > If you were to conduct an OS training program for 5-10 people, how
> would you
> set it up, and how much time would you think is required?<
>
> When I designed my current OST learning workshop (which is what I call
> training) I analyzed what are the components for knowing how to do OST,
> and broke them all apart into clusters of
>
> -what can you learn by reading
> -what can you only learn by doing
> -what can you learn from handouts
> -what can you learn later (as the learning begins before the training
> and extends a lifetime after)
>
> ....and then I fit the components you can best learn by doing / sharing
> with others in my workshop (with handouts and additional information for
> accessing future learning all around the room).
>
> Mine fit into a 2.5 day workshop - first evening intros, sharing
> thoughts about theory and human behavior change and setting of theme,
> next a full day of OS, next a full day of all the things they might wish
> to learn before jumping off on their own (with future coaching from me
> and OSLIST as they wished of course).
>
> Of course holding an OS without there being a real business / community
> issue can make the OS go a bit 'flat', but
>
> 1- this provides great nutrition for the next day's discussion plus a
> full-body understanding of when / why you *wouldn't* use OS
>
> 2- one thing I've just started: whenever possible I invite a small
> business or community group to hold a day's retreat for their real
> business need *on* our OS training day, just for the cost of catering -
> serves both the business and the workshop participants
>
> It all works out either way.
>
> I'd be happy to send you and whomever else wishes it the lesson plan,
> and some of the handouts if you desire.
>
> This workshop, by the way, works even if folks have not read "User's
> Guide" -- although I nudge them like crazy to read it pre-workshop,
> there are always a few who cannot.  Jumping into OS soon in the schedule
> makes that work, I think, and everybody is highly motivated to read the
> Users Guide right after if they haven't already.  As my method is to use
> what they know from their other life experiences as well, this always
> seems to work quite richly.
>
> I'd love to see what you develop for your own approach to training -- I
> look forward to sharing more between us all on all that.
>
> Let me know what I can send you,
>
> Lisa
>
>
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