[OSList] OST facilitation technique: too prescriptive?

[Michael Herman]

I do this all the time, not prescribing but requesting, and always
explaining that it's for the benefit of those announcing and trying to get
to the wall to post topics. It's a request for looking out for others. It's
removing an obstacle.

M



On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 17:49 Thomas Herrmann via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> Skickat från min iPhone
>
> 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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