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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Harrison,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I follow your words: if it works, do
it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Recently I facilitated an OS meeting for 40 people
of a company.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The company is in a quite bad moral shape so all
the case to help them "wake up and walk" was very sensitive.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That was the reason I accepted to use a directed
invitation instead of voluntary attendence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>These people were not practiced neither in group
work nor even to listen to each other. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After the OS introduction they made the agenda. In
every time period they could put 6 issues on the wall. In almost all of the time
periods they have put 5-6 issues and later they worked on 2 or 3. There were
some more burining issues, where the number of people were around 30 in the
"small" groups.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In one of the periods, when the dedicated time has
expired, I suggested to choose the next topic, to tell the truth I interfered to
finish the discussion. Before blaming me for abusing the principles you also
have to know that the "culture" of communication in this group of people was
(is?) that if they think of the "bean soup", they talk about "catering" in
general.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could not allow them to realize, they won't get
any result to talk paralelly. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Because of (my) need for control I inserted a
feedback time after every two time periods, where they could raise new issues
and put on those they found important.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Before the last period I realized that there will
be an issue, that concerned almost the whole group. I offered them, if they
wish, to moderate this discussion. They accepted it so I moderated this session
that was planned 1,5 hour instead of the originally planned 1 hour.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used the classical nominal group method to
collect all the partial issues belonging to the main issue. They collected some
40 post-it "issues", belonging to the main one. After clarification of the
"bean-soups" they made groups of the related post-its. Then I suggested to
choose one for discussion and take home all the others for further
discussions.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since we were close to the end of the whole
program, there was no time to open the space later, after getting a way of
solution for problem solving. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I showed them a problem solving method for the
issue chosen. They could end up with specific results and they were happy with
the solution. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I told you this story because of my doubts, how
else could I have done it. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards, Gyuri</FONT></DIV>
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