In a message dated 10/24/01 5:34:02 PM, [email protected] writes: << In the work I do, which is often Future Search but sometimes OS (many of the same principles apply to both) we place great importance on the sponsor. If you are the sponsor, are you standing for the organization or community of people you are calling together? If not, you might need to find the right sponsor. You want a sponsor that has the credibility to put out an invitation and have it taken seriously. Then the sponsor has to invite a circle of stakeholders to act as a planning team. By getting broad enough representation on the planning team, you have a broad enough representation of voices to reach out to the larger group you want to bring in as participants. You can still open the event up to whoever wants to come, but by having the planning team get commitments from a core group, you make sure enough voices and the right voices are present. The criteria we us is anyone who is affected by or could affect the outcome of the conference and any voice that is necessary to address the question posed to the conference.
Kenoli >> Kenoli: Nice statement about reality. Paul * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
