more on convergence...was "alternatives to driving oneself dotty"

[Joelle Lyons Everett]

Raffi--

This whole meeting was about 2 and a half hours.   It worked for this group
because they were working on a well-defined topic, program planning and getting
more members to take responsibility.   And it was so much more satisfactory
than the meetings they had been holding that people went away feeling very good
about the process.

This was a professional organization, not a group that works together full
time.   Ordinarily, I'd like a longer time, and if there can be an overnight in
there, so much the better.   But one of my clients, an elementary school
bogged down on some issues of restructuring, had a high-energy OS meeting,
scheduled for 3 hours (extended in mid-meeting to 5 hours) that was extremely
productive, and ALL the recommendations were implemented.

With another client, they asked for one day with the whole staff and one day
with management team only.   I encouraged them to invite the whole group for
both days.   The "Dead Moose" which no one wanted to mention was addressed the
second morning, and the second day was just amazing.

My feeling is that I will work with what I have.   But when time is short, it
is important to define a question which can reasonably be addressed in a
shorter time.   And re-opening for action planning lets everyone go away feeling
that something was accomplished.

Joelle

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