SV: OS with engineering consultants - help with theme please!

[Lise Damkjær]

Hi,

I am an engineer myself and do a lot of open space. 

My point of view is that we have to be very appreciative in our way of
putting the question and that it is easier to get engineers to get
passionated if the theme is about getting something to work. And having a
question that seems unrealistic to solve is tempting us to think different
and at the same time it helps us to get motivated.

 

I would trust in open space to let entusiasm and teamwork emerge and let the
question be something else. 

If posible ask the organization what they expect from bringing entusiasm and
teamwork – why do they want that? Probably they want some work done – make
the question from that.

If the work they want done is about getting more customers – then ask for
instance: “How do we get double as many customers and an exciting workplace
at the same time?”

 

I would love to do it together with you, but Copenhagen is a little too far
away – so I wish you very good luck!

 

Lise

 

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Fra: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] På vegne af Joelle Lyons
Everett
Sendt: 23. marts 2007 21:08
Til: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Emne: Re: OS with engineering consultants - help with theme please!

 

Anne--

>>From my experience, you likely need a meeting with a design team made up of
representatives from the various groups that you mention in the
organization.  Allow enough time to play with the theme until you get beyond
the obvious expressions, to something that the team feels excited about.

I have found that as an outsider, I am a poor predictor of what will
resonate, intrigue, and excite people within the organization.  Some design
teams have come up with themes that totally left me cold, but they attracted
lots of people to the meeting and started lively conversations.  Your role
can be to listen for what brings up energy and excitement (in the design
team work), perhaps combine a couple of thoughts or statements and help the
group shape the theme so it reads easily and is not too long or complicated.
In other words, you are a facilitator here, not the proposer.

In a case or two where the organization was not interested in getting
involved with this process, the resulting OS did not work as well.  When you
have a design team and it is truly representative, you will begin to see the
issues and coalitions that are likely to show up in Open Space.  These
people who are involved in the OS before the actual meeting date can also be
your allies within the organization, drawing in other people by their own
involvement and enthusiasm.

All my best wishes for a project that should be an exciting one!

Joelle

Joelle Lyons Everett
Sound Resources
Shelton, Washington, USA


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