collaboration with coaches

[Harrison Owen]

I heartily concur -- OST and Executive Coaching go together like a
horse/carriage, butter/fly, April/showers -- A natural fit. Ost provides the
experience and Executive coaching offers the depth and extension.

Harrison 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael
Wood
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 2:02 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: collaboration with coaches

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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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Raffi
Aftandelian
Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2008 9:56 AM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
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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