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[Harrison Owen]

Re: Key Personalities
From: Romy Shovelton 
To: Harrison Owen 
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: Key Personalities


Hi Diana

As others have said.... a familiar issue/conversation/request....

One caution I would add is this.... If you have named/ feature people and they offer OS sessions (ie. within the OS vs before and separately) you will likely 'unbalance' the 'openness' of the Open Space. What tends to happen is that many people will be drawn to sessions offered by the 'names'. Guess many of us are up for an easy life and being fed... and/or getting a kinda free workshop?! This means that the other sessions offered by 'regular' participants tend to get denuded.  This was a significant issue in an OS I ran for Harrison in Mauritius with the YPO (Young Presidents Organisation) - having incidentally cautioned/advised them against running names sessions within the OS time.

You could of course say 'whoever comes...' etc, which is also true... and magic will naturally still appear. And.... I simply offer an additional note of caution. It can be wonderful if the 'names' stay around after speaking (eg. Speaking day/evening before, as HO suggests)...and are then just free to use their 2 feet as everyone else in the OS.

All the very best with this one

Romy


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From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at adelphia.net>
Reply-To: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:41:00 -0400
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Key Personalities

I have been through this on a number of occasions. My advice is that if you want "names" have them come the night before, or the day before (Panals, talking heads etc) -- and when you open space, do just that. Of course i would also invite the Featured Folks to stay for the real party. The good ones will, and the rest you probably wouldn't want anyhow.

 
Harrison 
 
 
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  From:  Diana Larsen <mailto:dlarsen at futureworksconsulting.com>  
   
  To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU  
   
  Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:54  PM
   
  Subject: Key Personalities
   

  Hello all,

  I'm working with two or three conference  planning groups who want to  
  hold conferences completely in Open  Space next year. They all have a  
  little concern about whether they  can attract the kind of  
  participation they'd like without well-known  KeyNote or Invited  
  Speakers - the folks whose presence justifies the  participants'  
  attendance to bosses, etc.

  One planning group  came up with the idea of inviting Key  
  Personalities and offering  them honoraria and help with travel  
  expenses as if it were a regular  conference - but asking them /not/  
  to give keynote speeches. Their  names would be included on the  
  invitations to others as having  committed to attend, possibly along  
  with some topics they consider  proposing for the marketplace.

  Has anyone tried this before? What do  you all think about inviting  
  "key personalities" to an Open Space  conference? Has anyone done  
  this? What benefits/pitfalls do you see,  did you experience? I have  
  mixed thoughts and emotions, and would  like some further data to  
  offer the planning groups. What effect on  "Whoever comes are the  
  right people" happens when some folks receive  compensation for  
  attendance and others  don't?

  Thanks,
  Diana


  Diana Larsen
  www.futureworksconsulting.com <http://www.futureworksconsulting.com> 
  503-288-3550

  Watch  for:
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  Diana Larsen, available Summer 2006! Published by Pragmatic  Bookshelf  
  (new title!)
  http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/dlret/index.html

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