[OSList] Family Business

Wed Jan 16 11:12:07 PST 2013

Hola Jaime, como estás?

I share with you our experience with family businesses, using OS: 
It was an event with 200 people (all members of family businesses, property owners, -parent-child-brothers, etc- and employees, direct and indirect suppliers, etc.
It was only 4 hours, about raising awareness on the links in the family business

Here a little video with the audiovisual record of the meeting. The audio is taken from some comments of the closing circle
http://youtu.be/Vi7nPXPmBe8 

And from here you can see online the document with the all topics (43 issue) and the main points of each conversation (15)
http://issuu.com/conversacionesparatodos/docs/vinculos

All is only in Spanish without tranlation. ) 

It was an intergenerational, cross-sectoral dialogue...It was great! 

I have no specific experience in succession planning through OST, but since my intuition would say that the relevance of making one or two groups would be given to “clarify the purpose of the meeting”. What would like to achieve with this event?

According to the stage of the process in which they are, I feel that it would be very powerful to get involved to the entire system, to invite the divergence and then from there to see other instances of convergence with more focused groups.

If you want, we can continue the conversation about that in Spanish outside the OSLIST.
Aquí estoy dispuesta a compartir y aprender de tus descubrimientos.

Abrazos from Argentina!
Cecilia

skype: cecisoriano 
www.conversacionesparatodos.com

Fue una jornada de sensibilización sobre la temática de "La trama de los vínculos en las empresas familiares" de solo 4 horas en las que participaron 200 personas aproximadamente. Todos miembros de empresas familiares, dueños, (padres-hijos-hermanos-etc-) y empleados, proveedores, etc.

Y todos quedaron sorprendidos por sus descubrimientos y aprendizaje compartido a través de sus experiencias. Fue grandioso!

No tengo experiencia específica en realizar un proceso de sucesión a través de OST, pero desde mi intuición diría que la relevancia de hacer uno o dos grupos estaría dado en clarificar el propósito de la reunión. ¿Qué quisieran lograr con este evento? 

De acuerdo a la etapa del proceso en la que se encuentren, siento que sería muy poderoso involucrar a través de un OS a todo el sistema completo, para invitar la divergencia y luego a partir de allí ver otras instancias de convergencia con grupos más enfocados.

Espero que pueda serte de utilidad. Aquí estoy dispuesta a compartir y aprender de tus descubrimientos.
Abrazos desde Argentina, 
Cecilia
www.conversacionesparatodos.com

-----Original Message----- 
From: Harrison Owen
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 5:07 PM
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Jaime -- never had any experience with succession planning, but when it
comes to families I recall a group of Family Therapists who swore by OS as a
great way to bring sense and order into troubled waters. And the little I do
know about succession planning tells me that the waters are often troubled.
So I would guess you have a match. One thought would be to work with the
largest group of concerned (caring) people that will accept the invitation
to join the circle. That might include employees and others who have a
legitimate connection. They may not be family, but often such people are
almost closer than family and can provide different and "linking" points of
view -- especially if the family itself is in some disarray.

ho

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Jaime Pedreros
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 12:22 PM
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Dear OST list,

First of all, a great hug to all of you wishing an excellent year, plenty of
success and new experiences in the ever fascinating world of Open Space.

I have been working in the design of a training seminar about the succession
process within the family business environment. To my surprise, I have found
that a lot of research have been done, especially in the management of the
so called "family component"
which, different from the technical set of circumstances (taxation,
valuation, estate, accounting, etc.) involves a myriad of human relations
and family dynamics topics. Most practitioners in facilitating/counseling
the management of the "family component"
recommend the conformation of two groups: one with the directly involved
family members and a second one with the extended family (which might
include key employees) in order to develop a plan and conduct the subsequent
process through formal and informal gatherings and meetings.

I am sure that most of you have a coincident feeling about the possibility
of using OST to conduct these meetings and am also sure that some of you
have worked in succession processes.

Please let me know about some past experiences in this field. I will we more
than pleased to share my findings with you.

Best regards from rainy and also warm La Paz

Jaime
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