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At 02:24 PM 7/30/2001 +0200, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear all<br>
Client asks me to do a workshop on time & project management,
setting<br>
prioritis, personal effectiveness.<br>
Any examples, things to think about<br>
Regards<br>
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Rob Stroober</blockquote><br>
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Open Space could be very interesting in this situation. But first I would
want to ask, "Does anybody care?" I mean really care. Of course
the client does (presumably), but what about those who come? If this is
one of those "Improve Productivity Gigs" where folks are
ordered to come in order to enhance the bottom line...sorts of thing,
then the possibility of really opening space will be limited. To say the
least. No passion. But I can certainly see that folks could care.
If it were me, however, I wouldn't do an Open Space on "time
& project management, setting priorities, personal
effectiveness" -- I would do an Open Space around some project that
they needed to manage, where some real work needed to get done. Instead
of talking about all of the above, they would be doing it. More to the
point, I am sure the folks would experience a means for project and time
management combined with a powerful sense of personal effectiveness that
would simply blow them away. At the end, it would be appropriate to ask
in the closing circle -- what happened. Reflection as it were. The only
problem I can foresee with such an approach is the embarrassing one of
suddenly noticing that the group had been wasting an incredible amount of
time previously trying to manage stuff. Open Space works, of course,
because it establishes the initiating conditions for self organization.
And a self-organizing system, we all know, is a wonder of empowerment,
efficiency and effectiveness. And the management function is minimal to
non-existent. We know this simply because every time we open space it is
proved once again. Could be fun<br>
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