Too Little Time

[Joelle Lyons Everett]

Gerard--

Great suggestions for finding more time for Open Space in a meeting.  In the
example I mentioned, we changed the original design, which had a separate
needs-assessment exercise before the OS and a separate exercise after for
convergence and action plans, and included those tasks in the OS.  The overall time
was the same, and the flow was much better.

Joelle

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>From  Sun Jun 15 20:42:16 2003
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From: Thomas Herrmann <thomas at openspaceconsulting.com>
Subject: Creating space for longer OST-meetings
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Dear friends
I thought I´d share a little of experiences that I had lately with sponsors
who initially have had a restriction to a one day event. Every now and then
I am approached by sponsors who have decided to have a day with the staff of
one or another reason. Out of my experience working with OST I have become
more and more aware of the difference that different meeting designs/lengths
have.

Firstly I almost always manage to have a four hour pre-meeting with the
management team. In this meeting it becomes quite clear what they are after
and how the circumstances in the organization are.

More often we agree on more time for the conference. A few times lately I
have tried the following design. One full day of "physical" OST, some time
where the OST conference goes on on the Internet and then a "physical"
follow up day, doing convergence and actionplanning.

I think that this has added value to the outcomes for the sponsors.
Best regards to you all
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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