Wonderful Dicky. Your sharing would benefit great many around the world!
Ubiquitous waveriding powered by ost ;-)) spark Director Open Space Institute of Korea http://openspace.kr 2011. 4. 10. 오후 8:20에 "Methorst, Dicky" <[email protected]>님이 작성: hi Suzanne and Nancy, Thanks for your thoughts and contributions. I would like to share my experience with follow up of an Open Space event within my organisation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. As I am within the organisation I had a chance to follow through what happened after the Open Space with all the harvest. After two months we decided to go through the harvest again and ask the convenors of the sessions what had happened. Curiously enough they had forgotten what was written in the reports. When they reread the reports, however, they found that a lot of the suggestions had found their way somehow into the organisation. They had become an integral part of the work, had been executed or had been integrated into policies. Some issues did not need explicit follow up: the participants had enjoyed the discussions, had learned a lot or gotten other perspectives. On other issues no follow up action had been taken: these appeared to be the suggestions that on second thought were regarded as not feasible or not important enough. So without any explicit and conscious follow up action or controlmechanism by management.the things that needed to be handled got adequate attention. There was one exception: suggestions given bij outsiders (ie external experts/stakeholders) who wanted the Ministry to take certain actions) had not been taken on board (yet). It is possible that this will still be done, as the time between the Open Space and the questions asked about follow up was too short. But these things were more likely to be forgotten. By the way, the main purpose was not "knowledge sharing" but finding opportunities to realize our ambitions for reaching the Millenium Development Goals within a new challenging political policy environment. I wonder whether this outcome is another proof of the power of selforganisation. Or does it mean that people had just brought the things they wanted to do anyway and it would have happened even without Open Space? Or may be it would have happened anyway but less quickly and less efficient/effective. Greetings from a sunny Netherlands! Dicky ------------------------------ *From:* [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Suzanne Daigle *Sent:* zaterdag 9 april 2011 17:53 *To:* 'Nancy White'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSList] Knowledge sharing open space? Nancy, Makes a lot of sense to me! Would love to know more about what you mean by less “line of... _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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