sending this on ---------- From: [email protected] To: Holman, Peggy ; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Executive coaching prior to OS session Date: January 25, 1997 10:13AM
Peggy, Don't know how to post this to the web site to have a conversation. Maybe we could just do it this way. I am interested in having a conversation with those of you who have held OS sessions in a corporate environment and what you have done/not done prior to the event with the management staff. In at least two of the OS's I have held, I felt that progress was impeded by the management convening sessions. In one case, the executive director convened almost all the sessions, and although it seemed to go OK, and there were some other sessions convened by others, I felt I had been remiss in that I should have addressed that possibility up front. In another case, in which there were about 80 people, one main manager, and about 7 assistant managers, several of the TOP 10 issues were issues convened by the managers. On the feedback form people made reference to "lip service" by management, and that they tried to control the process. My question is, what do others do prior to an OS event? I almost think I need to meet with the managers and talk about convening/not convening sessions. However, I don't want to squelch their ideas because why should they be any less important than anyone elses? Its just that when managers convene sessions, it seems to be all too easy to go back to the old ways of control and responsibility, and people seem to get the message that their sessions are less important than the one's the manager's convene. ANY THOUGHTS??? Kay Vogt
