Hello All, I'm new to OS, got trained last fall and have used it a few times with good results with a religious community I'm connected with and will facilitate a national meeting this summer of Maryknoll (a foreign mission community) Affiliates. But I have a request re a different target group. My sister and brother-in-law own a franchise in a fast-food chain and manage three small stores in Maine. I am offering to do a 3-hr. session with them and their 15-20 or so employees to help build a sense of community that might, among other surprise benefits, reduce the extent of employees not working their scheduled shifts because they quit, with or without notice, don't show up, or call off because they have something better to do that day. (My brother-in-law has been working 6-7 days a week lately just to cover and is exhausted. Both he and my sister are really conscientious and more than fair with their employees.) Most of the employees are earning not too much above minimum wage, since profit margin is so low. Because of that and unemployment in Maine being 2.3%, it's a workers' market, so the oft-cited os motivation of people caring about the operation or future of their organization is minimal here.
Three questions--do you think os is feasible with this goal in mind? Second, because of the small numbers, it would have to be a regular (required) staff meeting. This is against os basic principles, no? Third, what sort of question would arouse the passionate interests of people who must have some needs that work could meet well enough that they would be really interested in being there but who, at the moment, don't seem to care whether they have one job or the next? Thanks for any help you can offer, Mary Elizabeth Ford, Psy.D. Bronx, NY
