<div>Thanks for this, Diane.</div>
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<div>I've saved it into my OST / Action planning folder for future reference.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 September 2010 01:54, Diane Gibeault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:diane.gibeault@rogers.com">diane.gibeault@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>At a recent training workshop I facilitated in Ottawa, some participants suggested an adaptation to the process of action planning for priorities set by the group after discussions. </div>
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<div>This option - <b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">One Market Place Per Priority - </span></b>offers a convergence process with more space for self-organization, which is the fundamental intent of Open Space. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Participants choose which of the priorities they have passion to work on and regroup accordingly. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Then each priority group opens space by itself and creates its own action market wall in relations to its specific priority. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Among the action topics posted, nothing precludes that someone may propose a discussion of the priority itself.</span></div>
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<div><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13px"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium">This "one market place per priority" method is still a more structured approach that the option of opening space again for action with only one market place for everybody as they express their passion for actions on any of the identified priorities. For those organizations who prefer to structure the action identification a bit more, this new option still opens more space than having groups come up with only one action per priority which is what ends up happening in most cases despite the invitation to identify more than one action - at least this is what I have seen over many years of OS events. </span></span></div>
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<div>To provide some guidance to the various priority groups who will self-organize to open space and create their own market place for action, I added a few simple guiding steps on top of the Action Planning Guide which is usually in their kit or distributed on chairs before the start of convergence. I share them with you in case you may find it useful.</div>
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<div><b><span lang="EN-US">A. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-US">Create a market place of actions</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-US"> that will contribute to realize the priority you have chosen.</span></div>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- Post the priority title at the top of a wall.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- Each participant can post on that wall, an action title with his/her name.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- Then, combinations of action sheets can be made if desired, by participants initiating the actions.</span></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA"><span> </span></span><span style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-US">B. Participants form groups around actions of their choice</span></b></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">Action Initiator role</span> – </span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">with help from the group:</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- Posts high on the wall the action title so it is visible to bumblebees.</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA"></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13px">- Circulates a sheet to create a list of participants.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- Notes key points (the group may want to use the planning guide provided).</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- After the discussion, prepares and posts a summary on one or two flip chart pages on the plenary wall for all participants to read during a walk about that will follow. </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 36pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" lang="EN-CA">- Registers at the News Room and enters the action plan on a computer.</span></p></span></font></div>
<div>Maybe some of you have already used this method of "one market place per priority". If so, learnings from your experience would be most welcome. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 13px">Gifts come from everywhere in Open Space, as it is a circle of people open to possibilities. Thank you to the participants of the Ottawa training group for bringing to light this different way of doing which is full of possibilities.</span></div>
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