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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Dear colleagues –<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Thank you for all your reflections and
observations regarding <span class=SpellE>stickie</span> dot prioritization and
other forms of convergence.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Here’s my experience:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I do not often use
prioritization at the end of an Open Space - if a client/sponsor wishes to note
key issues often the Book of Proceedings offers that - and the closing circle
can act as an evaluation tool (I can even go around the circle first to ask
people to note patterns indicating key issues).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>Often I reopen the space on the last half day to ask people to post
issues they would like the group to help them think about, plan or design
during the last two sessions.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>On the occasions where I do use
convergence in the form of sticky dots for prioritization I find that it helps
people move from the personal passion issues to ‘what’s good for
the organization / community’ thinking - if indeed this is the reason for
the Open Space.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>In the discussion
sessions, they are choosing issues of personal passion.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>If management needs a winnowing down of
issues, the questions I ask of the client/sponsor in the design phase let me
know what question to pose to the participants before they place their
dots.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Does the client want the group to
identify the five things that can be done…on Monday? <span class=GramE>without</span>
extra funding? <span class=GramE>to</span> move a particular program forward? <span
class=GramE>by</span> individuals on their own? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>And then before people post
their <span class=SpellE>stickies</span>, I recall with them that first they
were choosing issues for their personal passion; now they are choosing issues
based on what can be done (for example) without extra funding, to further the
organization / community as a whole.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Participants have told me that
they appreciated the dot voting, so they could make a choice to put all their
dots on their original issue, because they still believed in it and wanted to
honor it - knowing it would not become one of the five selected by the majority
of the group - and they were recommitted to carrying it forward on their own.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And although they knew the group was voting
differently, they felt at peace having made this statement.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Other participants have told me that seeing
all the dots showed them where the energy was going and they were glad to have
a chance to express and be heard during the discussion times -- but they were
now ready to ‘give their dots’ to the other reasoning for
selection.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>In a way it helped both
participants grieve the letting go of their issues as essential for the greater
group to carry forward.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:1.9pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Oh, and by the way, I do as
Brian and some others do – I give people 5 dots and somehow it always
seems to work out. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>And in very large
groups for which a prioritization stage is necessary I have used the TASC prioritization
software that Harrison, Michael H and others have used.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'>Lisa<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>H e f t<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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