<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">Raffi--<BR>
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This whole meeting was about 2 and a half hours. It worked for this group because they were working on a well-defined topic, program planning and getting more members to take responsibility. And it was so much more satisfactory than the meetings they had been holding that people went away feeling very good about the process.<BR>
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This was a professional organization, not a group that works together full time. Ordinarily, I'd like a longer time, and if there can be an overnight in there, so much the better. But one of my clients, an elementary school bogged down on some issues of restructuring, had a high-energy OS meeting, scheduled for 3 hours (extended in mid-meeting to 5 hours) that was extremely productive, and ALL the recommendations were implemented.<BR>
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With another client, they asked for one day with the whole staff and one day with management team only. I encouraged them to invite the whole group for both days. The "Dead Moose" which no one wanted to mention was addressed the second morning, and the second day was just amazing.<BR>
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My feeling is that I will work with what I have. But when time is short, it is important to define a question which can reasonably be addressed in a shorter time. And re-opening for action planning lets everyone go away feeling that something was accomplished.<BR>
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Joelle</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT></HTML>
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