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<DIV>In a message dated 6/14/2005 5:12:55 P.M. Central Standard Time,
jack@designinglife.com writes:</DIV>
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size=2>One of my tests for good process is the question: Does it bring to
people's consciousness the kind of freedom in connectivity we and they want
outside the process? </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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<DIV>Jack and Harrison,</DIV>
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<DIV>How synchronistic (not surprising) are your comments. Tomorrow I ride for
two hours with my skeptic boss to one of our sites where I will be
facilitating a dialogue with disillusioned employees about what happened with
two processes they were supposedly an integral part of (while my boss consults
with HR and the manager). I plan to share your words with him. I say, "skeptic"
because although he and I have fascinating and in-depth dialogues
about the world of learning, something in him fears open space when I talk
about it. Yet what you just wrote, Jack, sums up precisely what I
suspect is missing in the processes the employees have been asked to
"participate" in. It has been little more than a false structure. </DIV>
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<DIV>So my hope is to open some space for them to dialogue about what happened
with these processes and what did not happen. Somehow I hope to open space
for the manager of this group to trust the group and the process to
them to create what they need in order to accomplish the goal of their and
her work. Ditto for my boss (who is also hers). I've not been given
permission to conduct "open space."</DIV>
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<DIV>Where does one start with something like this? I work in a
conservative environment where I daily experience the old form of "control"
not working yet management clearly afraid to try anything else. </DIV>
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<DIV>Later this summer, I am planning an event with employees using TWC simply
because I think it will be useful to them (my personal goal) and yet acceptable
to management (my guidelines). All the while I'm hopeful it might edge me a
little closer to being able to really open some space. </DIV>
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<DIV>Susan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>
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