Hello

[funda oral]

Hi Olga,
 
You are facilitating very short ost meetings. Here in Turkey, I am also asked to organize ost meetings for 2-3 hrs. I facilitated 3-4 short time meetings. As OST is the best and most efficient way to organize a meeting, all of them were very succesful.
 
Then i facilitated other meetings organized by OST which took longer time.
 
I think  in one day OST meetings  ( 6-7-8 hours), conversations get deeper, the frienship 
increases. In 2-3 days OST meetings the probability that people get organized and take action to make some changes together increases.
 
The subject of your meeting,   "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Trainings”  is quite interesting. I guess due to the short time available, only the cost pertspective was discussed during the meeting. Given longer time, many another perspectives would have been discussed.
 
Welcome,
 
Regards,
 
Funda              

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Ольга Золотарева <zoloolga at rambler.ru> wrote:

From: Ольга Золотарева <zoloolga at rambler.ru>
Subject: Hello
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:02 AM

Hello everyone!
	My name is Olga, I currently live and work in Moscow. In 2005 I 
came across OST for the first time, while I working in a 
telecommunications company.  In 2006, I was a participant of an OST 
meeting in St. Petersburg led by Raffi Aftandelian. Then I started to 
use this approach in my workshops. I want to thank Raffi for helping me 
see how OST and OS principles can inform  my training approach. Also, 
I’d like to thank him for information about OSLIST. It  helps me 
to acquire additional experience and find answers to my questions.
	This year I have been using OST as a part of my workshops. 
Usually I offer a three hours OST meeting towards the end of each two 
day workshop. These short OST meetings are an opportunity for 
participants to talk about those things around which they have a real 
passion.
	Also in August this year I conducted an OST meeting for a 
corporate training club in Voronezh, a provincial city near Moscow. The 
theme of meeting was “Evaluating the Effectiveness of 
Trainings.” I think this kind of meeting is very important for 
corporate Russian training sector. It was interesting to hear different 
opinions about the evaluation of business education. Many participants 
thought that many evaluation approaches are impossible as they require 
lots of resources: time, money, people to do the work. And often the 
evaluation ends up being more resource-intensive than the actual 
training, be it short or long-term.
	The meeting of corporate trainers lasted just three hours; the 
sessions lasted for one hour. And the trainers spent the whole time 
together.
	Thanks for everything.
	Greetings from Moscow,
	Olga.

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