[OSList] My first OS as a facilitator

Sat Mar 22 11:25:37 PDT 2014

Well, I think there was a little misunderstanding and for sure it's my fault.
I'm not the CEO but one of the three agile coaches of our company.

Our work is focused on helping our company to upgrade its culture (we started as Scrum Masters and now we work at all the company levels) and Open Space is the most powerful tool to support us with this big challenge.

Since the beginning I thought that as company coach and facilitator it could be ok to facilitate this meeting too, even tough I'm a company employee. Am I wrong?

Anyway now I know that you Gerardo are very close to me and it would be great to establish a direct contact during the next days.

Please, let me all know what you think.

Tks everybody
Stefano

> Il giorno 21/mar/2014, alle ore 21:51, Suzanne Daigle <sdaigle4 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> What a treat to have a CEO immersed in Open Space and an Agile Scrum guy to boot! I agree with Harrison; it will lead to amazing things for your company if you jump in the ring with everyone. So inspired. Wish we had met in Paris. I was there then. Keep us posted!
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> Suzanne
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> P.S. Gerardo translated Harrison's user guide in Italian. I have my very own copy which Gerardo signed dedicating it to my dad who read the book from cover to cover years ago in Italian. He was a medical doctor. He loved it!
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>> On Mar 21, 2014 4:24 PM, "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Stefano – If Milano can talk to Roma, good things might happen!
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>> I was going to add in my previous note that while it is certainly possible for the CEO to facilitate an Open Space as you propose, that would not be my first choice for several reasons. First – no matter what you say you will STILL be the Boss (or whatever) – which makes it harder to believe that it really is Open Space, and that you are not setting the agenda. As you probably know by now, it is virtually impossible to “control” an Open Space. Certainly you can shut it down, but you and everybody else will be out of control, simply because everybody is “in control.” You know that, but your people don’t, at least for their first Open Space. So I would not put unneeded barriers in the way, even if they will be cast aside. The second reason that doing it yourself is problematical is that as facilitator, you really need to keep your hands out of things (present and invisible, so to speak). But then everybody loses, assuming that you have some value to add. Which I am sure you do.
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>> So do yourself and everybody else a favor. Invite my good friend Gerardo (Milano) to do the honors. And if he can’t, there are many other good folks, all speaking Italian. If he/they can take care of the space, you can have the marvelous fun of playing in it with all your comrades. At least that is what I would do.
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>> From: oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Lucantoni
>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 9:46 AM
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>> Hege, tks for your words. 
>> I'm very lucky because I'm part of a team (agile coaches team) who shared strong values and maybe our passion was capable to 'infect' our management.
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>> We hope OS will be a first step toward a new way to live collaboration in our company.
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>> We're going to do a one day Open Space.
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>> And to answer to a previous Suzanne question: we're located in Rome.
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>> Stefano
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>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Hege Steinsland <steinslandhege at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Stefano, I wish you all the best and congratulate you with your courage and the trust your company shows in you and the method! A great opportunity! I looke forward to listen to your experience. Are you doing a one ore two days Open space?
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>> All the best from
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>> 21. mars 2014 kl. 13:16 skrev Stefano Lucantoni <stefano.lucantoni at gmail.com>:
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>> Thanks a lot Suzanne. 
>> I'm reading Harrison's guide again and again and I admit that the more I read it the more the stress drops down because it really seems to me that the Open Space is self sufficient or anyway needs a very small help.
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>> Thanks again for your support.
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>> Ciao
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>> Stefano
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>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Suzanne Daigle <sdaigle4 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Stefano...bravo! Love the theme, love that you will have 100 people and most especially that you have invited your organization into Open Space. Besides telling you to enjoy the experience, I would refer you to Harrison's guide. After 5 years I still go back to it to do the basic preparations and to also sink into my invisible role opening and holding the space. Where are you located?
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>> Thank you for sharing and making us part of your first experience. Remember you can do no wrong. It will happen with you and in spite of you.
>> Keep us posted. 
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>> On Mar 20, 2014 6:49 PM, "Stefano Lucantoni" <stefano.lucantoni at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>> I'm new to this OS world. After my first, and unique, OS experience in Paris during last September (The Global Scrum Gathering) I came back home with the idea to adopt this kind of meeting in my company too.
>> On next March 31st my company's first Open Space meeting will take place and I'm going to be the facilitator. wow!
>> We'll be around 100 people and the theme is "how could we make our company a better place to work?"
>> If any of you have a suggestion to share with me, something that you would have been happy to receive before your first time as an OS facilitator, I think it would be really a gift for me.
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>> thanks all
>> Stefano
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