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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hadn’t thought of that Chris. The door prize is a fun way to
reconnect with the more free and playful part of OS and might take the edge off
this more structured part of OS. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Diane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Corrigan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 4 mars 2008 21:12<br>
<b>To:</b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Convergence for Group Consensu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>That's a very cool way to do it
Diane. could combine it with a door prize drawing as well (also very
common in Aboriginal community meetings ...:-) )<br>
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Thanks for this.<br>
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chris<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Diane Gibeault <<a
href="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com">diane.gibeault@rogers.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Hi Kim,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>When looking for the general directions the
majority of a group wishes to take after discussions in Open Space, here is an
option similar to dot voting but with less peer influence on the results. That
may not always be important but when it is, the following alternative helps. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Canadian aboriginal people shared with us
this technique for compiling votes - or points of the survey as I
now call it (Vote would imply decision making by participants when often,
it is the leadership group that decides and confirms after the survey, that
priorities proposed by participants are effectively a go for action planning
given resources, context etc.).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Their way is very quick and simple:
tickets in envelopes attached to each report on the wall. They prefer this
method since the individual choices are less influenced by the number of points
(or votes) others have given to a topic report for the simple reason that the
points are not visible.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Participants read the Book of Reports
identifying at the same time their top priorities and combining identical
topics with the initiators' consent. After the combinations have been
announced by the facilitation team, as people walk out through each of the
aisles in the circle, they are handed a strip of tickets (e.g. 5 tickets).
They place their tickets in envelopes attached under each report on the
wall. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Then, participants are invited to go to
a report - not their own - count results, mark the total on the envelope
attached to the report. One volunteer per report remains at the wall for the
announcement of results. When counting is all done, the facilitator asks if any
report has the maximum number of points a report could receive (e.g., same
number as the number of participants when it's one vote per person per report),
and then goes down by 10 until someone shouts that their report is in that
range. As report numbers and titles are announced volunteers note them on
flip charts to capture the priorities of the group. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This approach was used with several OS events
of 450 people and it works wonderfully.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Diane</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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