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Doug-- I totally agree with Michael on this. The core value of OST is that
it is self-organizing and self-managing. People will know how to handle whoever
and however many whos show up. Be confident, your wisdom is intact! --BJ
Peters<br>
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<pre wrap="">think this might be beyond the documents and proof stage, doug.<br><br>you know this is an important issue. they know this is an importnat issue.<br>there are many in the community who know this is important. the ones who take<br>the time to show up will be the most passionate of all of those. if there are<br>50 people or more... what seems like too many, this will indeed be seen as<br>good news by all... because they want to see something happen on this issue,<br>and the numbers will be saying 'something is possible!' so lots of people is<br>good news! they will be glad to combine or delay sessions as needed... and<br>they will see those needs and address them. indeed, the little workarounds<br>that they develop will be excellent practice for then sitting down and working<br>out bigger issues. if there are many people, then a bigger space might be<br>found for future meetings... and announced to the list of first round<br>participants so that they know
that there is room to bring others. somehow<br>things always work out. and whatever wrinkles like that just make for a<br>better story later on.... so enough rambling here...<br><br>maybe just point out that if many many people come, any disappointment will be<br>easily balanced by those saying 'my god i knew this was an important issue to<br>me, but i didn't know i had so much company! ...thank you thank you for<br>announcing these sessions and giving us all a chance to come together to meet<br>and learn and act.'<br><br>that's my two cents... am sure others will have other, probably better<br>responses... the key in all of this is that YOU know that it will work. the<br>longer you wait to tell them so, the more they wonder if you KNOW it. not<br>what you say, but how you ARE that counts.... as ever.<br><br>m<br><br><br><br><br>"Douglas D. Germann, Sr." wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Hi--<br><br>Help, please!<br><br>My client is getting jittery over how their OST will work. This is the one<br>about "Influencing Senior Healthcare and Well-Being," which starts 2 weeks<br>from today. 3 Wednesdays, 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm each day.<br><br>Their main worry seems to be, What if 50 people show up and post 30 topics?<br>We only have space for 9-10 breakout sessions, and they fear people will be<br>disappointed if their session got "bumped" to the next week's time slot.<br><br>Their solution? Have the opening be "You 8 people go to this space, you 8<br>go to that space. Everybody gets 5 minutes to say what their issue is,<br>around the circle. Then the group leader reports back to the main group."<br>Sounds like a sure way to get *everybody* frustrated, to me.<br><br>So what would you tell them? What documents would you download and e-mail<br>to them to show that they really don't have anything to fear, that the good<br>people they have invited will ha
ndle it very well?<br><br>Please help me reason with these people, so we have a good event.<br><br> :-Doug. Germann<br><br>*<br>*<br>==========================================================<br><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU">OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</a><br>------------------------------<br>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options,<br>view the archives of <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu">oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu</a>,<br>Visit:<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a><br></pre>
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