[OSList] Additional Organizational Open Space Case Studies?

Thu Oct 3 15:53:49 PDT 2019

Hi Birgitt,

Thanks for sharing your journey. I will be attending the Working with OST
training that Anna Caroline and Thomas are facilitating in DC. Looking
forward to it!

All the best,
Jake
________________

When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
you will be free of problems.
 - Robert Adams <http://www.robert-adams.info/>

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:27 PM Birgitt Williams via OSList <
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Hi Jake,
> thanks for digging this old case study up. It was published by the Open
> Space Institute of Canada but the correct name of the study doesn't have
> the word 'institute' in it.
>
> My quest path from that first great experience was to find out if the same
> experience and results could be created in other organizations. I
> deliberately chose organizations of 100 people or less so that we could
> track our process, the progress, the outcomes. From 1995 through 1998 I
> worked with wonderful leaders, all of the senior leaders I worked with were
> women yet there were influential, impactful men on the senior leadership
> teams.
>
> Length of consulting assignments varied but averaged nine months to
> accomplish an organizational transformation. My involvement varied from
> eight days to forty days over that span of time. The results were
> consistent. The leadership teams were brave. Not all moments were easy. In
> every situation, the need to transform was significant to achieve improved
> performance. I demonstrated that the outcomes were the same as I had
> achieved when I was CEO, and that it wasn't my particular leadership that
> was needed for the outcomes.
>
> This work led to the development of what I first named the Conscious Open
> Space Organization and then, as per feedback from some clients, renamed the
> Genuine Contact Organization. The Genuine Contact program was also born,
> offering a blended package of modules that were our basis for the outcomes
> we were getting. One of the primary modules is Working with Open Space
> Technology. This module focuses on working with OST in the organization.
>
> By 2000 we had requests from people who had learned several modules of the
> Genuine Contact program, requesting the opportunity to be authorized
> trainers of the Genuine Contact program so in Sept 2001 the first Train the
> Trainer took place. One of the outcomes of these wonderful people and their
> work in the world is that we proved to ourselves that I wasn't at all a
> factor in the outcomes that organizations were achieving as the GC trainers
> were also getting the same outcomes...in various cultures, various
> geographic locations in the world, various languages.
>
> The Genuine Contact community of practice <http://www.genuinecontact.net>was
> born at that time and in 2020 we are celebrating 20 years of helping
> leaders and their organizations. We are a membership organization. If you
> go to that website you will see a link in the top right corner to be a
> member. Then, you can have the experience of being in an organization that
> has its roots in OST. Every one of us who gets involved has important
> experiences, learning, experimenting, sometimes falling on our faces, and
> always (so far) getting up again realizing we have done our best, and then
> continuing on to our newest best.
>
> We are neglectful of writing up our case studies except as reports for our
> clients. Some of us are writing one of our newer  stories to be included
> with the great project of the Library of Collaborative Change when they
> publish the volume on Amazing Stories of Change.
>
> and if you are really really interested, I encourage you to join a
> fantastic group of people at the Genuine Contact Summer Academy
> <https://www.dalarinternational.com/gco-sa2020/> taking place July 3-10,
> 2020 at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo Ontario, Canada.
>
> At that learning intensive of eight deep dive days together, case studies
> will be shared and recorded.
>
> Birgitt
>
>
> *Birgitt Williams*
> *Supporting Next Level Leadership "Leading So People Will Lead"*
> Author, Senior Consultant, President Dalar International Consultancy, Inc
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> Co-owner Genuine Contact Group, LLC
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>
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> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 2:43 PM Jake Yeager via OSList <
> oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have come across two case studies of "organizational Open Space," i.e.,
>> where the organization operated in Open Space at all times:
>>
>>    1. Open Space Institute in a Social Service Organization
>>    <https://www.openspaceworld.org/files/tmnfiles/social.htm> by Birgitt
>>    2. Practicing Open Space - Our First 10 Years
>>    <https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/practicing-open-space-our-first-ten-years>
>>    by Hans-Georg Wicke
>>
>> Both of these case studies offer very detailed descriptions of outcomes,
>> and the organization described operated in organizational Open Space for
>> many years. Does anyone know of other case studies like these? Does anyone
>> want to write one? :D
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> All the best,
>> Jake
>> ________________
>>
>> When the mind is quiet, the sun of your heart will shine once again, and
>> you will be free of problems.
>>  - Robert Adams <http://www.robert-adams.info/>
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