<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Welcome Tricia!<div>The 'uninitiated' part of your title does not worry me. Everyone has a first time, and Open Space is one of those processes for which participants need no prior experience.</div><div>It is the 'distracted leadership' part of the title I am curious about.</div><div>Can you share more with us about that?</div><div>(and no matter how wonderful a process - how what comes of this event - relationships, ideas, and so on) will be supported by leadership post-event?</div><div><br></div><div>Otherwise, it is sometimes good to make the topic / reason for the meeting a bit different so it connects more with personal efficacy / productivity / leadership rather than something that would need a bit of focused leadership from the top. In other words, meeting an organization where it is - rather than where you hope it to be. I am curious about your thoughts about that.</div><div><br></div><div>Also: in my experience - the less objectives / tasks, the better - the less 'intervention' of adding another task or question mid-stream - creates the greater opportunity for participant discussions to engage on deeper and deeper levels over the time span of the meeting.</div><div>Although I have on occasion begun a Day 2 with another related question (theme), I have wondered if that was because of my wish for the group to progress there rather than my being exactly where they are....</div><div><br></div><div>Lisa</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; 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"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><div>On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Tricia Chirumbole wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello all!<div><br></div><div>I am an OST newbie who is hoping to facilitate an Open Space for my main client's annual meeting in a few weeks and I would like to get your thoughts on incorporating hands on skill transfer into an Open Space. I did do some book reading on OST and just attended the OST meeting in NYC this weekend, but have never hosted an Open Space. </div> <div><br></div><div><b>Background on organization and situation:</b></div><div><br></div><div>I do not provide facilitation for this organization. I am one of a number of project managers who work on teams to conduct market research and strategy consulting projects for their clients in the life sciences arena.</div> <div><br></div><div>They have agreed to my participation in the facilitation of the meetings and I have referenced OST, but we have not yet discussed details on meeting design and I am pretty sure they are not familiar with OST. </div> <div><br></div><div>This meeting will be a small group of only the US folks - 14 in total. We will be meeting for 2.5 days. On an ongoing basis, we are all remote workers across the US and in Europe and Japan and only see each other when we travel to a client's location.</div> <div><br></div><div>The general theme identified is "collaboration and learning from one another". The stated intent, so far, was to have us all take turns teaching something to the group where we are the "expert", then to spend time just working in parallel and helping each other on current projects or generating learning moments. </div> <div><br></div><div>I am encouraging shifting the focus from trying to model collaboration and getting all of our trainings under our belts in 2.5 days, to a focus on developing a system for ongoing collaboration and expertise sharing, to include discussions of where learning and teaching opportunities exist. I think this topic would be great for an Open Space. </div> <div><br></div><div>I was thinking we could combine opportunities for hands on learning with discussion of an ongoing structure by having two sessions (maybe 1.5 days overall).</div><div><br></div><div>My thoughts for day 1 and day 2 "prompts"</div> <div><br></div><div>1) <span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sharing expertise and leveraging strengths across the organization</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16px">2) </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16px">What do we need right now for high performance individually and organizationally? Training, support, etc.</span></span></div> <div><b><br></b></div><div><b>My main question is</b>, in the second prompt - "what do we need right now" - could we frame this as an opportunity for hands on learning where the sessions were either suggested by learners who knew of something specific that they wanted to learn, or not specific I guess, as well as by teachers, who felt that they had areas of expertise to share? </div> <div><br></div><div>We would all then self-organize and convene into sessions where we are not just discussing topics/structures/etc, but we are actually engaging in information and skill transfer. </div><div><br clear="all"> <div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Question 2: </b>Al</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">so not sure which prompt should come first.</span></div> <div><br></div><div>I don't know yet if I will get them to buy into the Open Space process or if I do, if I can get the time for 2 prompts, BUT, I wanted to ask thoughts of the group before crafting my next communication with them. </div> <div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;line-height:110%">Thank you sooooooo much for reading through this long question and for any insights provided! </span></div> -- <br>Tricia Chirumbole<br>US: +1-571-232-0942<br>Skype: tricia.chirumbole<br><br><div style="padding:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:130%"> </div><input type="hidden"><input type="hidden"><div></div> </div> _______________________________________________<br>OSList mailing list<br>To post send emails to <a href="mailto:OSList@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To unsubscribe send an email to <a href="mailto:OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org">OSList-leave@lists.openspacetech.org</a><br>To subscribe or manage your subscription click below:<br><a href="http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org">http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>