OS with university dental-medical school clinicians+faculty

[Gerard Muller]

Hello Lisa,

The closest to what you're looking for that I have done is facilitating 
an OS for a University Hospital's Special dentistry
and jaw surgery department, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

The question simply was "How do we develop our department in the coming 
years ?"
It was a two day event (lunch to lunch) which took place in two 
consecutive years in a period of a lot
of change.

Details of the invitation are below. The use of polarities as a way of 
giving a sense of (a) the territory, (b) a different kind
of meeting - especially in cases where the question is not blindingly 
obvious, I thank to Leopold Stieger, Open Space Institute Austria.

Greetings from the Netherlands,




Gerard Muller
Open Space Institute Denmark
Phone: (+45) 21269621					Skype: openspace1
Mail: gm at openspace.dk




OS in 2003

"How do we develop our department in the coming years ?"

After all we have achieved the past couple of years, we now need a 
phase of consolidation
The biggest change will take place in the coming 2-3 years

Our planning is systematical, transparent and professional
We plan in an amateuristic way - and by the way we don't stick to our 
plans

Our strategies, priorities and task divisions are crystal clear
There is a bit of a basis, but it is totally unclear how we're going to 
do this in practice

Our assistants (=doctors in training) get lots of opportunities to 
learn within a clear framework
Our assistants are really onl an production factor; we leave them 
almost totally to themselves

The work of our staff members is so diverse we will never manage to 
make a whole out of it
If we manage to create synergies between our subspecialisations, we 
have a world class department

Any serious amount of research is simply just unfeasable for such a 
small department
A few years from now we'll find it hard to imagine how much we used to 
focus on production only

Our team is getting stronger and stronger
We are moving more and more to becoming an island kingdom.


OS in 2004

"How do we develop our department in the coming years ?"

The plan we made last year is still 95% valid
We urgently need to adapt it to the new realities

We are a typical pioneer organisation: creative and energetic, but 
somewhat chaotic
It is high time to organise ourselves in a more professional way, 
otherwise we may get into trouble

Our training program is very professional
It is not a bad start, but now we need to get serious in organising it 
professionally

Our support staff is professional, flexible and well organised
Are they really ?

We have grown so much we now need to pause and consolidate
Consolidation is a euphemism for grinding to a halt

Leadership is in good hands with our professor
It is only natural that staff members take responsability for various 
tasks as we grow

The next year we really must make an impact in the wider region
Unless we get our internal organisation right, we will never make a 
difference "outside"

Our internal communication has improved greatly in the past year
Our internal communication is still reason to worry






On Dec 14, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Lisa Heft wrote:

> Hello, dear colleagues –
>  
> A colleague of mine is preparing to do her first Open Space, with 
> faculty and clinicians at a University school of pediatric dentistry.
>  
> She is looking for examples of OS being used for such folks.
>  
> Perhaps you have had experience with some or all of these or a 
> combination – a teaching institution in the field of medicine or 
> specifically the field of dentistry.
>  
> You know how sometimes a client wants to hear that someone exactly 
> like them has used OS – I think that’s why she’s looking for this.
>  
> Thanks for sharing your experiences here on the list, and I shall 
> collect them and pass them on to her (and also use them to build my 
> slowly-as-I-go-but-growing resource for you all to share on how OS is 
> used by whom).
>  
> From a rainy Berkeley, California, USA,
>  
> Lisa
>  
>  
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