<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"> Dear friends and colleagues,</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">This note is for you if </div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">-if <span style="font-size:13px">you would like to improve the harvest and actions from an OST meeting. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"> -if you measure the success of an OST meeting two or more months after the OST meeting looking at the difference that the meeting made</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">I have a workshop happening tomorrow Wednesday March 7th from 9am to 12 noon EST that I believe is of value to you. Check out <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planning-for-highly-effective-meetings-tickets-43619827077" style="font-size:13px">Planning for Highly Effective Meetings</a>. No, I don't alter the format of the OST itself. I am a self confessed purist about the dance of OST in its pure form. However, it is possible to work with OST to generate more ROI. If you cannot attend in person, the recording is valuable for a self study. Registration is required to get the recording.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">I created a particular kind of planning meeting originally to help my clients get the most out of the participatory meeting method Open Space Technology. I was facilitating these large whole system meetings of hundreds of people in one meeting. At the closing of the meeting, people would be so excited, so happy to have participated and great accolades were made. For some meeting facilitators, this is enough to declare it a good meeting. Not for me. I want to know what happens two months and more after such a big investment in a meeting. Did it make enough difference? <br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">From this vantage point of maximizing the harvest for the good of the organization and its people, I found the importance of the planning meeting, how it was done, and what was talked about was critical in achieving the most gain.This planning meeting is not about logistics...although we do provide a handout about logistics. There are topics much more important to discuss in the planning meeting. AND, the planning meeting must include the senior most leader of the organization as part of creating the best outcomes.</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">I wrote a blog that might interest you about the participants benefiting from the right to make an informed choice about attending the meeting. I titled the blog <a href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/informed-choice/">'Grandma, if it moves, don't pick it up!'</a></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">in genuine contact,</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Birgitt</div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt"><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Author, President & Senior
Consultant of Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. <span></span></span></p>
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