Convergence for Group Consensus

[Harrison Owen]

Marty said: Here are my two questions:

a)  In the Users Manual, you say that "with a sizable group (fifty and
larger), electronic tallying is infinitely preferred."  But in this email,
you say that "with small groups (<100) Sticky dots do the job."

b)  In the Users Manual, you recommend the use of 55 sticky dots per person,
but in your email, you recommend just 5.  In the quest for simplicity, it
seems you have removed about 5 per year!

My Answer --

Consistency was never one of my virtues. And when it comes to closure
(consensus or otherwise) I recommend Sniffy. Works every time, but you may
not be asked back! But I never was a real fan of consensus. Moving the
business seemed more important.

Harrison  

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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Martin
Boroson
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:34 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu

Harrison

I checked the Users Manual (always next to my desk) on convergence, as you
suggested.

Forgive me for quoting you back to you, but there are a couple of
differences between what you said in the Manual and what you've written
below, and I'm really interested in understanding how your thinking/practice
has evolved in the last ten years.  (I'm also planning a couple of 3-day
events where formal convergence and voting is very important to the
clients.)

Here are my two questions:

a)  In the Users Manual, you say that "with a sizable group (fifty and
larger), electronic tallying is infinitely preferred."  But in this email,
you say that "with small groups (<100) Sticky dots do the job."

b)  In the Users Manual, you recommend the use of 55 sticky dots per person,
but in your email, you recommend just 5.  In the quest for simplicity, it
seems you have removed about 5 per year!

:)

Many thanks,

Marty



-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Harrison
Owen
Sent: 04 March 2008 13:15
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu

Pretty simple -- Sticky dots or voting. (Details all in the User's
Guide)With small groups (<100) Sticky dots do the job. Just give everybody
the same number of dots (5 works well) and invite them to past their dots on
the Issue(s) they love. They can place all the dots, a few or none. Then
count the dots or just eyeball it.

Harrison 

Harrison Owen
7808 River Falls Drive
Potomac, Maryland   20854
Phone 301-365-2093
Skype hhowen
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-----Original Message-----
From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Kimberley
Willing
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 11:09 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Convergence for Group Consensu

Does anyone have any experience or advice in 'converging' open space, in 
such a way that the emerging consensus of the whole group is identified?  
Specifically, I have a 2 day event coming up - the purpose of which is to 
develop a best practice framework for reporting on the topic, and at least 
to develop a check list of issues to be addressed in preparing such a 
reporting framework. 

Day 1 could be spent diverging (in Open Space) and I am wondering how best 
to converge on Day 2, given that one outcome mine host would like to see, 
is an articulation of the level of agreement of the whole group on certain 
matters.

With thanks,

Kim.

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