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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harold – my distaste for evaluation “forms” is such that I couldn’t even contribute to the conversation. At least in printable language. But I have found and used one easy way. At the start of the Closing Circle I acknowledge the organizational needs for some form of evaluation, being careful to smile so that I am not taken too seriously. I then ask each person to think of a single word (“fantastic,” “disaster,” whatever) which captures the experience for them. I give them a moment’s reflection and then take the microphone around the circle as quickly as I can, asking each person to shout out their word. No speeches, explanations… just the word. Duplicates are welcome (they indicate clusters of feelings) and the range is typically rather awesome. In very short order a fabric of meaning emerges which requires no comment or elaboration. And then it is on to the Close. It probably disappoints some of the Data-Hounds, but I have never had a serious complaints. And of course the comments in the closing circle tend to fill in the details. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Harrison Owen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>7808 River Falls Dr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Potomac, MD 20854<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>USA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone 301-365-2093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.openspaceworld.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.ho-image.com (Personal Website)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:<a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org"><span style='color:blue'>http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces@lists.openspacetech.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Harold Shinsato<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> World wide Open Space Technology email list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSList] Soliciting Open Space facilitation/organization "feedback"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Michael, Lisa, Spark, Peggy,<br><br>Thank you for reinforcing my negative reaction to this one person's call for a "formal feedback process" during the closing circle. It's not like any of the chaorganizers are invisible and hidden. People are welcome to send us feedback already, and many have both privately, in the closing circle, and on facebook and twitter. At first I thought "no thanks, maybe next year", then I thought I remembered JTM had a feedback form that I had filled out. I thought, wow, if Peggy does it maybe it's worthwhile. (I hope I'm not a Peggy groupie!)<br><br>I do like the idea of finding ways to get a *small* amount of feedback around the food, the timing, the venue, and some of the other details made around facilitation - but actually I think I already know the adjustments needed. Perhaps the best thing I could do is sit down with the one person who wanted a formal feedback process and do an Appreciative Inquiry interview with him.<br><br>And maybe there's a more fun way to collect testimonials. I usually really dislike survey forms almost as much as I dislike my annual tax forms. Thanks for the cogent responses I can pass on to the others who helped facilitate and host the event.<br><br> Cheers!<br> Harold<br><br>On 5/24/11 5:25 PM, Peggy Holman wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I like your questions, Michael. They're similar to ones we've used for Journalism That Matters. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Frankly, I have little energy for feedback instruments. My partners feel it is important for briefing funders. So I have helped to shape the questions so that they mostly focus on what participants got out of the experience. We don't get many responses. And I still don't see much value in it. Though it has been handy in responding to some foundation questions specifically asking if we've done a post-event evaluation with participants. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Peggy<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Harold Shinsato<br><a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br><a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a><br>twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/hajush">@hajush</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>