[OSList] OST facilitation technique: too prescriptive?

[Thomas Herrmann]

Hi Dan 
I do ask people to return to their seat afternposting a topic. I also ask participants to start by making a brutto list of topics, divided on the different time slots of course, before starting any negotiations, merge or moving of topics. 
I think the magic focus when waiting for more topics, often in total silence, is special and it may be important to some of the participants. 
Cheers
Thomas

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> 31 jan. 2018 kl. 09:48 skrev Chuni Li via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> "Please return to your seat after posting your session" is actually in my script. 
> The fact that I say this doesn't mean chatting won't happen around the market place. But I think it's fine to state this request out of respect.
> What often happens is when it gets to noisy and people can't hear the new announcements, someone will always shout out to quiet the noise.
> 
> Chuni
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>> 
>> Lately I am noticing that, at the end of the building of Marketplace, more than 1/2 or even 2/3 of the people may be milling around out of their seats by the Marketplace chatting while the last 10 or 15 sessions are getting announced and going to the wall. It can get loud, and sometimes the last few folks do not really get heard.
>> 
>> So I'm thinking of telling all the folks, as we start announcing topics, "...After you post your session to the Marketplace, we ask you to please return to your seat, to experience and hear the announcing of the rest of the sessions. After all the announcements of all of the sessions slows down, we'll declare the Marketplace open, leave our seats, and go to work. Thanks."
>> 
>> Assume there are 275-300 people in this situation. 
>> 
>> If you have experience, I have 2 questions for you: 
>> 
>> Is asking the folks to return to their seats too prescriptive in your view? Why or why not?
>> 
>>  
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>> Daniel Mezick
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