collaboration with coaches

[Michael Wood]

Alan and Raffi

I do believe there are great possibilities for linking Open Space and Coaching. 

I work with a group of Associates who support, promote, offer Open Space as well as Professional/Executive Coaching. We nearly always offer Coaching Support to clients after Open Space events. Some take it up and some don't. But the question we usually ask before the event is along the lines of, "how will you keep the space open within your organisation after your OS meeting?"

I know this raises the subtle but important distinction between facilitating an Open Space event and offering consulting support to an organisation which wants to explore more deeply what it means to be a Self Organising System (I like the way Harrison is addressing that in WaveRiders, which I am half way through!).  

It seems to me that an experience of an OST meeting can really open people to a different way of being - but then unless there are some quite conscious choices, then it's often back to "business as usual" in the day to day life of the organisation. 

If we had a few Executive Coaches around who had experienced Open Space; done some OS training; read a bit about Self Organising Systems, and had begun to grapple, within themselves, about what this all means, then I think such coaches could offer a wonderful service to any organisation which wants to live differently.

Michael Wood
Perth, Western Australia



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Subject: collaboration with coaches

[friends, I'm posting the below on behalf of Alan Stewart who has been bewitched with that delightful global affliction called, "I can't post to the list"]

Dear OS Friends all around our little planet


A remarkable opportunity has recently come my way. This is to work in association with a well established company based in Hong Kong which specializes in providing executive coaching services to diverse organizations  - business, government and non profit – throughout the Asia Pacific region.

 

Our potential collaboration is with organizations in which the leaders are likely to be posing these kind of questions:

(We can assist them to define theirs precisely!)


How may we best adapt to the changing financial circumstances in which we find ourselves?

How do we make the most of the new opportunities which have come our way?

How do we ensure that we continue to provide exceptional service to our existing clients while meeting our targets for new business in a rapidly changing environment?

How can we improve our game to attract top people and to hold on to them? 

My role will be to set the ball rolling with ‘the whole system in the room’ with OST approaches to addressing such matters.  

My coach colleagues have practices which are thoroughly in tune with those of OST. They will provide follow-on coaching services for those people who recognize that these could be of particular value for learning how to adapt personally and as a group to a changing organizational culture which is implicit in the manner of addressing these matters.  

 

And who wish to address their specific questions such as "Is this what we want to do/how we want to do things, after Open Space?"

I would suspect that there would be plenty of precedents for engaging in
this kind of collaboration between OST facilitators and executive coaches.   

And would greatly appreciate receiving any stories and insights you have on ‘Open Space plus follow-on coaching as a viable model for change’ which could enhance the success of this enterprise.

Go well 

 

Alan

 

Alan Stewart, PhD
Chairman



Mob: +852 9438 7680
Em: alan at multimindsolutions.com
Web: www.multimindsolutions.com

 

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