Question RE Using Open Space for Staff Meetings

[Chris Corrigan]

It works just the same as for large meetings.  I have long been an
advocate of using OST for staff meetings, and have seen it work in a
couple of places.  When I worked in government we used it as a process
for our unit of 10 people on a bi-weekly basis.  Most of them time, the
group stayed together, but a few times we had breakout groups form where
we needed to work on specific projects (like job description
reclassifications or allocating training budgets).  We toyed with the
idea of posting the reports from these meeting on the staff intranet,
but the tools were too cumbersome to use at that time, six years ago.
In the end, we mostly posted updates and reports on a staff bulletin
board in our work area.

These days, I might turn to collaborative software like a wiki or
project weblogs to keep folks informed of progress and extend the staff
meeting OSTs into asynchronous time so that work could continue to
unfold through the week.

Cheers,

Chris

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CHRIS CORRIGAN
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> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of
Jennifer
> Hurley
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 9:44 AM
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> Subject: Question RE Using Open Space for Staff Meetings
>
> Hello again.  Thank you all for your throughtful responses to my
question
> about starting an Open Space event with a Visioning Exercise.  The
Church
> I am working with has decided to develop a "Behavioral Covenant"
first,
> and postpone the Open Space to the fall.  I'll say more as the time
gets
> closer.
>
> Now I have a totally different question.  I'm principal in a small
> planning consulting firm (2 principals & 3 employees).  I'm intrigued
by
> the possibility of using open space for our weekly staff meetings, but
I'd
> like to read more about how OS works for short meetings (ours are
usually
> about an hour) and with very small numbers of people.  Does anyone
have
> suggestions?  Is there anything on the WIKI pages about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer Hurley
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