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Another is to invite them to go seek a more productive place to be in.<BR>
Might cost you your customer.<BR>
Certainly is less work.<BR>
An entirely other option is to have a planning session where this stuff is put on the table.<BR>
Reason I mention this: just facilitated an open space that worked beautifully till it came to action planning. It turned out that people loved to be together, get to know each other, discuss stuff that they have a passion for (50 people generated 33 issues and submitted 30 reports) but had not much interest in taking next steps.<BR>
So I asked myself, why did I think action planning was a good idea?<BR>
The sponsor told me.<BR>
On the phone.<BR>
No planning meeting.<BR>
Additional work for me.<BR>
Another lesson for me on my journey to work less.<BR>
Greetings from Berlin<BR>
mmp<BR>
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<B>From:</B> Erich Kolenaty<BR>
<B>Date:</B> Fri, 7 May 2004 10:14:26 +0200<BR>
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But what to do, if you have a<BR>
crowd which feels well settled, with not much passion for anything special?<BR>
Can be rather boring. the other option is to stir them up a little, to make<BR>
them affected, to create tha chaos you need for Open Space.<BR>
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