Hi Keith and others,<span></span><div><br></div><div>Here's something I wrote a while ago about how to use Networks to evaluate an OS...</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.babelfishgroup.com/files/Measuring%20a%20successful%20meeting.pdf">http://www.babelfishgroup.com/files/Measuring%20a%20successful%20meeting.pdf</a> </span></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap">If you're interested in the tool of How-to you can grab a free 5 day email course from: <a href="http://www.practicalsnacoaching.com">http://www.practicalsnacoaching.com</a> </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Warm regards,</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space:nowrap">Andrew<br>
</span></font><div><div><br>On Friday, May 3, 2013, Thomas Herrmann wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Dear friends in Open Space<div>
Since many years back I use a way to evaluate development work with Open Space Technology as the main event. I have shared here previously but will give a brief summary of how I do it.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>
2 maj 2013 kl. 18:21 skrev Chris Corrigan <<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'chris@chriscorrigan.com');" target="_blank">chris@chriscorrigan.com</a>>:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
Paul...that is a weird tool, Tells me nothing except that if 85% of my potential value outcomes are achieved, then I will always break even on my ROI for any meeting. It's all just so arbitrary. <div>
<br></div><div>And that is the problem. When we use quantitative and summative methods for evaluation of qualitative and developmental processes, we get meaningless results. In other words, how much relationship did I generate in my last meeting? 12. Whatever that means. It makes as much sense as giving the answer "lots of green ones that made me contemplative" to the question "how much money did we make selling those ladders?"</div>
<div><br></div><div>What we need are tools that evaluate complexity properly. What you are looking for are tools from the realm of Developmental Evaluation (grab the book by that title by Michael Quinn Patton). These tools, which can complement summative, merit-and-worth evaluation tools, help organizations and ncommunities to track the learning, development and effectiveness of things like Open Space Technology meetings. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is a place to start with DE: <a href="http://tamarackcommunity.ca/g3s61_VC_2010g.html" target="_blank">http://tamarackcommunity.ca/g3s61_VC_2010g.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div>
<br></div></div><div><br><br><div>On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Paul Nunesdea <span dir="ltr"><<a>nunesdea@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Keith </div><div>Although not disagreeing the least with Doug, guess that your company would be looking for some meeting ROI type of calculations.</div>
<div>I have googled a couple of entries and this must be useful for you.</div><div><span style="font-family:'.HelveticaNeueUI';font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.fastmeetings.com.au/meeting-roi-calculator.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fastmeetings.com.au/meeting-roi-calculator.htm</a></span></div>
<div><font face=".HelveticaNeueUI"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face=".HelveticaNeueUI"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap">Best</span></font></div>
<div><font face=".HelveticaNeueUI"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19px;white-space:nowrap">Paul<br></span></font><br><span>From my iPhone</span></div><div><br>El 19/04/2013, a las 00:26, doug <<a>ost@footprintsinthewind.com</a>> escribió:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span>Keith--</span><br><span></span><br><span>How does one assess the value of a top-down "You shall all do this" meeting? When do you measure it? How many walking out the door thought it the best meeting ever? How many are still doing the required or "volunteered" activity 6 months or 6 years later? What is the purpose of the meeting in the first place?</span><br>
<span></span><br><span>If six great projects come out of the OST meeting, 4 actually get started, and one is still accomplishing good in the organization a year later, was the meeting a failure?</span><br><span></span><br>
<span>Those who want numbers as proof of something will always be disappointed. Because they seek disappointment.</span><br><span></span><br><span> :- Doug.</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br>
<span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 04/18/2013 06:17 AM, Blundell, Keith wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Dear OS practitioners</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span>As some of you already know I have been trying to pioneer the use of OS</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>in our agenda driven, action outcome orientated organisation. I have</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>had the opportunity to run several meetings, but they have been short</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sessions and restricted participants (in terms of organisational</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>functional structure).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This has created a bit of a buzz and I am delighted that I have been</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>approached to run a meeting with a larger diverse group of participants</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>(cross functional) for at least a whole day! Brilliant and I have no</span><br>
</blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>concerns that it wont be successful.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div>
<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br><br>-- <br><div>Andrew Rixon PhD<br>Director<br>Babel Fish Group<br>W: <a href="http://www.babelfishgroup.com" target="_blank">http://www.babelfishgroup.com</a><br>E: <a href="mailto:andrew@babelfishgroup.com" target="_blank">andrew@babelfishgroup.com</a></div>
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