Something new?

[Joelle Lyons Everett]

Ralph--

I've been in the situation where the circle of chairs was jammed against the 
wall, and I'm sure your solution worked better than mine.   We had the 
additional challenge that we were in a brand-new resort hotel, the walls had just 
been painted, and they wanted nothing taped on any of the walls.   We ended up 
with permission to use Post-It paper on a folding partition (not painted) that 
divided the space we were using into two rooms.   The other half of the room 
was used for food service and breakout space,   

We used the room with the circle only for coming together and newsroom, not 
as a meeting space.   The good part was that there were very few guests, so we 
had permission to hold breakout sessions anywhere we wished, including a huge 
lobby with a central fireplace and clusters of overstuffed chairs, a nice 
mezzanine that overlooked the lobby but felt very private, and around the pool and 
hot tub.   And those of us who were there overnight were given discounts on 
all the spa services, massages and herbal baths and facials, plus free swimming 
inside in hotspring water.   Very nice.

My experience is that if people are allowed to self-organize, they adapt very 
quickly to challenges like being asked to post things in the other room, or a 
shortage of breakout spaces.

Joelle


 


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