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Hi Michael,<br><br>
Great idea! As a new OS practitionner and a communications consultant,
that follow up and support from management is the one thing that
"worries" me. After an OS event, it's easy to let the
day-to-day stuff take over. Crafting right then and there a summary for
other people not attending is a great way to start creating that ripple
effect. Thanks for sharing it :-))<br><br>
Esther<br><br>
At 17:27 2007-04-05, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi All, <br><br>
Just back from a "senior executive forum" for a company in
South Africa, 1.5 days in OS, where we did something new and different
with documentation. We tweaked the notes reporting template to help
start a weblog with the proceedings, as soon as the corporate IT guys can
get the tech side of things together. <br><br>
This Forum was top 60 people in the company. 600 others report to
them. The 60 have been meeting semi-annually for several years, and
know themselves to be a circle. The 600 are the beginning of the
rest of the org (of 12,000 total) all of which currently knows itself as
a set of silos rather than circles. <br><br>
So with the proceedings, we asked the usual... issue, convener,
participants, summary. To satisfy the corporate yearning for
action, we had a space for 'immediate next steps' in the template.
Then we added to other fields: Summary for 600 direct reports (if
not same as above) and Summary for Whole Organization (if not....).
<br><br>
On most issues, scribes said share with all. On a few issues,
qualified summaries were written. On all issues, this will provide
the necessary info to establish a weblog that can be open to at least the
next largest circle, with the thought that this new view of
"strategy" might be offered to the 600 and ultimately
"leaked" out to the rest of the organization. <br><br>
The hope is that we might use these proceedings and followup news in
weblog form to help turn the 600 into a circle of conversations, that
might eventually also be convened periodically, in whole or in parts, in
open space. It helps, as well, that these 60 will continue to meet
and generate news in semi-annual gatherings. <br><br>
I thought there might be other places where we are working where it would
make sense to ask participants to craft directly and immediately their
messages for some larger circle of colleagues or stakeholders, with or
without a blog structure as the delivery/conversation vehicle.
<br><br>
Anybody else documenting events in weblogs these days?<br><br>
On our way from "meetings" to "practice."<br><br>
Cheers, MichaelH<br><br>
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