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<DIV>May I call on your collective experience to help me explore that
possibility of using OS in a tough, male dominated, engineering environment. We
have a situation where a multi-national industry is engaged in trying to get
every member their workforce to develop personal responsibility in the
context of safety. Currently a three day programme exists based around fairly
traditional, but effective, value-based activities in the areas of building more
honest, effective communications and understanding the processes within
group interaction. It has been very much a "here's the take, now feel the
experience" approach.</DIV>
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<DIV>Residential workshops have been limited to 12 men from different teams
but now the client is asking whether it would be possible to achieve the same
objectives using intact teams of between 8 and 150 men. (Probably the average is
20). This is an industry with employees used to directives from above, and
procedures learned through traditional sheep dip courses.</DIV>
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<DIV>I can see a role for OS in raising the important issues around safety,
communication, leadership, responsibilities etc existing within a specific team.
But I do not have the confidence to believe people will come willingly
'with passion', or that the apparent unstructured approach of OS would appeal to
the client. I am also not certain how much support people would receive to
follow through any identified actions - which would only end in frustration
etc.</DIV>
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<DIV>Does anyone have experience of any successes in this area they could
share?</DIV>
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<DIV>With anticipated thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry Gibson</DIV></BODY></HTML>