[OSList] 1st OS tomorrow! - last minute advice re: client resistance?

[Suzanne Daigle]

Tricia, I agree with Jeff, breathe deeply,  smile, trust this beautiful
process, and enjoy this experience of opening space. It will be fine and
you will be fine. Suzanne
On Feb 12, 2013 2:36 AM, "Jeff Aitken" <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:

> breathe. go slow. you'll be fine! it will work great.
>
> jeff
>
> On 2/11/13, Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Tricia,
> >
> > you have a relatively small group (you have 14 right?) and a long os
> > meeting (you have three days right?)
> >
> > with that length of space, i'd be confident that all the issues raised
> > will be covered well, and by the last day there easily can be
> > prioritizing and action planning and next steps.
> >
> > i'd be confident that the agenda wall and marketplace process will do
> > what it does, allow them to organize themselves for the tasks at hand.
> >
> > any participant can suggest that a posted topic be moved to a
> > different time, including the principal who wants to form them into a
> > priority list; but it's up to the convenor of each topic to agree to
> > move it. i explain this after the agenda wall is filled and they are
> > ready to approach the wall as a group.
> >
> > I also explain that combining topics is ok, but again it's the
> > convenor who decides to do that or not, and sometimes it's best if two
> > similar topics are not combined but dealt with separately in more
> > depth. but it's up to them.
> >
> > In my experience the length of time that a topic requires is handled
> > by the four/five principles of os. 'when it's over it's over' and the
> > corollary (which I always mention in the intro) 'when it's not over
> > it's not over.' sounds like you have an idea about handling the
> > situation already.
> >
> > jeff
> > san francisco
> >
> > by the way, one interesting thing i've encountered is when a
> > relatively small gathering looks at the agenda wall and someone
> > suggests 'let's stay together and address these topics one by one' and
> > people agree to do it that way. because I have let go at that point, i
> > don't want to intervene in their plan, but I now remind them that the
> > amount of time available for each topic has now shrunk because they
> > can't be done concurrently (and I suggest they write the new times on
> > the topics to make that visible.) not to add another thing for you to
> > think about, but i wanted to mention it.
> >
> >
> > On 2/11/13, Tricia Chirumbole <tricia at investorswithoutborders.net>
> wrote:
> >> Hello all!
> >>
> >> I am facilitating my 1st OPen Space tomorrow and lookingly heartily upon
> >> the challenges being presented as good learning opportunities, BUT....a
> >> few
> >> things are worrying me a bit about this particular circumstance....last
> >> minute advice or good juju welcome!
> >>
> >>
> >>    1. The focus is on "hands on skill transfer/learning among company
> >>    members" - I was comfortable with this, but it was revealed this
> >> afternoon,
> >>    in addition to having a number of things that people want to learn
> >> about
> >>    overall, the group has a number of urgent projects that need work
> done
> >> that
> >>    can't wait until we're done - so part of the idea was to make this a
> >> part
> >>    of the learning experience, which is great and I also felt confident
> >> with
> >>       1. BUT.....one of the principles is having a hard time letting go
> >> of
> >>       his top down mgmt and wants to include priority rankings for some
> >> of
> >> the
> >>       projects and is suggesting we need different lengths of time slots
> >> since
> >>       some items will require a deep dive - so I am worried about this
> >> added
> >>       complexity, former more than latter - I have ideas about how to
> >> work
> >> with
> >>       this, but am interested in ideas from those with experience.
> >>       2. Also, they have what I think is an exceptional amount of issues
> >> -
> >>       We all work in different cities, so today was a beginner's session
> >> to
> >> our
> >>       meeting, and they tricked/pressured me into allowing a
> >> brainstorming
> >>       session on the topic - which was great but revealed a HUGE list of
> >> r5
> >>       flipchart pages of items across only 13 people! In addition to
> >> the 3 pages
> >>       of project tasks.
> >>    2. I was even getting some push back on the removing of the table and
> >>    continued confusion...which is why I kept trying to tell them that it
> >> will
> >>    be explained in detail tomorrow and will become clear and
> >> simple....this
> >>    was all hastily decided upon with minimum discussion between me and
> >> the
> >>    principles...
> >>
> >> any advice welcome! Want to add that the one principle is very open and
> >> very deferential to me and the process, whereas the other one wants to
> be
> >> open, but keeps putting up roadblocks in almost every breath - they are
> >> great people and I think I can address these issues, but still a little
> >> concerned!thank you :_))))
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tricia Chirumbole
> >> US: +1-571-232-0942
> >> Skype: tricia.chirumbole
> >>
> >
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