Collective Wisdom

[NigelSeys-Phillips]

It really IS remarkable!!!
To all those who have so kindly replied - my heartiest thanks for each and
every contribution and rest assured your collective wisdom will be
"borrowed" as best I possibly can - with credit being offered I assure you.

Many thanks - it's a real privilege to be a part of such a wonderful
cohesive group where support and suggestions arrive from literally all over
the world.

Best Regards from 'the little red dot'
Nigel

Nigel Seys-Phillips
Fulcrum Business Management Solutions
30 Mount Elizabeth
#13-32 Highpoint
Singapore 228519
Tel: +65 9639 2510
E-mail: nigel at fulcrum.com.sg
www.fulcrum.com.sg
 
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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael M
Pannwitz
Sent: Tuesday, 10 November 2009 6:41 PM
To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
Subject: [OSLIST] Collective Wisdom

Dear Nigel,
its great to have you on our listserve giving me an opportunity to
reflect on my own practice by offering issues from your practice...and
apparently a bunch of others among us are animated to do the same.
There a couple of points in Doug's mail I want to address:
1  I go to great lengths to avoid getting involved in formulating a
topic for an event that I have been engaged to facilitate. Finding the
topic is a great opportunity for the sponsor and his planning group to
deal with the content, aims, aspirations, hopes, imagined results and
other stuff and to collectively own the event. So, making as much space
as possible for finding their topic is an important preparation not only
for the event itself but also the inviting process....when they invite
others to their topic.
I consciously intervene in the "topic-finding-process" only at one
point: after the planning group has found a topic (I usually suggest its
their first draft of the topic) I ask them to reflect and record who all
needs to attend so that the topic can actually be worked on as
productively as possible. After they have collected groups, names, etc.
I asked them who they think are essential to the meeting. If at that
point it turns out that some of the "essentials" will definitely not
come (like their customers, etc.), I ask them to look at the topic once
more. Sometimes they fiddle with the topic a bit more and other times
they start thinking up strategies for inviting people that need a very
special "invitation".
2  I go to great length not to get involved in the inviting process.
(I do point them to examples of invitations on our website and to the
hints on what one might want to put into invitations about OST).
Actually, when the Planning Group experiences the planning process in
which nothing happens unless they do it themselves they dont even ask
me. Invitations are the business of the sponsor...its an activity that
tells the invitors a lot about their event...after having called or
visited or mailed or bribed or...a bunch of people that they want at the
event they learn a lot about their project...sometimes they find out
that they have chosen an impossible date or that those invited are
interested in inviting others.
I need to be unattached to outcome to find my facilitation role of
"completely present and totally invisible" which is prerequisite for
expanding time and space for selforganisation.

Have a great event!
Greetings from Berlin
mmp

douglas germann wrote:
> Nigel--
> 
> I too prefer the longer sessions.
> 
> One other thought: You might surreptitiously or otherwise invite some of
> the rank and file attenders to talk with you to help you refine your
> topic. The sponsors will probably be willing to give you names of people
> who will likely attend whom you could call....
> 
> 			:- Doug.

Michael M Pannwitz, boscop eg
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
++49-30-772 8000
mmpanne at boscop.org
www.boscop.org


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>From  Tue Nov 10 14:02:14 2009
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From: Barbara Bunker <bbunker at buffalo.edu>
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Hi Nigel,  I am delighted to find someone trying to infiltrate the ranks of those
who audit and do compliance since Billie Alban and I had our first attempt with
the Ethics and Compliance Officers (USA) at their annual meeting this summer.  We
were not doing OS but rather a general workshop to get them interested in more
engaged methods of doing their work.  I think it's a field ripe and ready for
picking and I will be interested in what happens at your conference!  

Barbara Bunker (B3)
University at Buffalo/Portsmouth Consulting Group


On Mon 11/09/09  6:16 AM , NigelSeys-Phillips nigel at fulcrum.com.sg sent:
> I have enjoyed, for several years now, the astonishing collective
> wisdom and open sharing of thoughts and ideas on OS LIST and I
> commend each and every one of the generous contributors for their
> time and input. 
> 
> What I have found most helpful is thoughts on designing particular
> events where somebody has ‘got themselves into…..' - so
> it's my turn to ask! 
> I have been asked, positively I am delighted to say, to run  a 3
> hour OS workshop for the final afternoon of a two day conference
> (totally traditionally run prior to that with multiple daily sessions
> led from the lectern) entitled "5th Annual Internal Audit and Risk
> Management Conference - Bracing for an efficiency revolution within
> Internal Audit to achieve value at lower cost" 
> This may not be the "traditional" audience for OS but I think it is
> an exciting and interesting opportunity in today's business world
> where communication is ever harder to achieve and where cultural
> issues are so important in gaining ‘compliance' - and I am sure
> I don't have to offer anybody any examples on what happens when that
> bit goes slightly awry. 
> My question (assuming there are somewhere between 50 - 100 people
> attending) - 
> 
> How would you structure such a short event? 
> 
> Clearly not a lecture…a hands-on experience is called for
> presumably addressing some of the potential learnings of the previous
> day and a half and how they might take them back to make a real
> difference? 
> I would certainly appreciate the wit and wisdom of OS LIST in
> helping me form a plan……any thoughts you might have would
> be welcomed and gratefully received. 
> All the best from the tropics….hot and wet in Singapore still!
> 
> 
> Nigel 
> Nigel Seys-Phillips 
> 
> Fulcrum Business Management Solutions 
> 
> 30 Mount Elizabeth 
> 
> #13-32 Highpoint 
> 
> Singapore 228519 
> 
> Tel: +65 9639 2510 
> 
> E-mail:  
> 
> www.fulcrum.com.sg 
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