Hello Esther, In situations where the responsibility/commitment expectation is there on the part of the sponsor, I have taken to doing the following during the convergence time: 1. a process of commitment as an individual--each person has a sheet asking them to identify personal commitments they are making for the future based on any items in the report that they feel strongly about and based on anything that has surfaced on a personal level from the event 2. a process of commitment as an individual that is part of a team/department/etc within the organization---each person has a sheet asking them to identify commitments they are making of something they intend to take back to their team/department etc. from amongst the items in the "book of proceedings" or from something that has come up for them during the event.
The sheets are handed out in the morning along with the book of proceedings and I give a longer time for reading the book of proceedings ie: 1 1/2 hours so that people can fill them out as they read. And then during this time I also use the "sticky dots" voting. When the individuals are done with their personal sheets, they drop them off to us at the computers, we enter the commitments for the final report and then immediately post the sheets onto a wall for them to take with them after the closing circle. Every step of this can be powerful and assist with commitment at a deep inner place. I like to use this also when I am doing OST with a group that has come together for a conference and will not see each other again, but the hope from the conference is future action back with local networks. Blessings, Birgitt Williams Make Genuine Contact! Dalar Associates: organizational effectiveness consultants Striving for Success? Ready to exceed your expectations? Contact us for consulting services, training, conference and meeting facilitation, and keynote speaking. www.openspacetechnology.com <http://www.openspacetechnology.com> -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Esther . Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 10:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Different Kind of Convergence Hi folks: I am doing a two day open space with finance managers (about 60) from a telecommunications company. The topic is How Can We Make Finance at "x" organization a better, more productive place to work? The idea is to get the middle managers to step up to participating more and taking more responsibilty. However, the invitation asks them to make recommendations that the senior finance group (about 10 people) will take and work with on the third day. My question is, how can I make the third day meaningful? Anyone have suggestions for process? I managed to get the senior folk to circulate some key strategic information to the middle managers that they had not been given. As well, the context in this organization is that they have just come through some voluntary separations and none of those folks are to be replaced. So there are questions to wrestle with like how they can get the important work done and not still labour on trying to do everything they've always done? Also how can they do the kind of work that they need to do to assist the organization meet its goals in ways that makes finance a more valuable business partner with the rest of the organization. Any ideas on what I could do on the third day? I've already got them looking at their 1999 plan to do an assessment on what they planned to do in 99-2000 and what has yet to be done and what will they just not do. I could really use some suggestions. Best regards Esther Ewing * * ========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed * * ========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected] Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== [email protected] To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed
