Thanks for this, Diane. I've saved it into my OST / Action planning folder for future reference.
Jack Jack Martin Leith Director, The Samurai Community Limited The Samurai: A community of innovation warriors Mobile: 07831 840541 (+44 7831 840541) www.the-samurai.net | www.jackmartinleith.com<http://www.jackmartinleith.com/> *Until a technical problem has been resolved, please send emails to [email protected].* On 8 September 2010 01:54, Diane Gibeault <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 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. > > This option - *One Market Place Per Priority - *offers a convergence > process with more space for self-organization, which is the fundamental > intent of Open Space. Participants choose which of the priorities they > have passion to work on and regroup accordingly. Then each priority group > opens space by itself and creates its own action market wall in relations to > its specific priority. Among the action topics posted, nothing precludes > that someone may propose a discussion of the priority itself. > > 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. > > 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. > * > * > *A. Create a market place of actions* that will contribute to realize the > priority you have chosen. > > - Post the priority title at the top of a wall. > > - Each participant can post on that wall, an action title with his/her > name. > > - Then, combinations of action sheets can be made if desired, by > participants initiating the actions. > > *B. Participants form groups around actions of their choice* > > *Action Initiator role – *with help from the group: > > - Posts high on the wall the action title so it is visible to bumblebees. > > - Circulates a sheet to create a list of participants. > > - Notes key points (the group may want to use the planning guide provided). > > - 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. > > - Registers at the News Room and enters the action plan on a computer. > 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. 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. > > Diane > * * ========================================================== > [email protected] ------------------------------ To > subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of > [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about > OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
