I have led many small OS events with groups ranging from 7 to 15. They have often been with staff teams or boards of organizations, once with a small unit at a hospital and another with a 7 person senior management team.
I have had some groups choose to spend much of the time together, following the sequential shifting of leadership Meg suggests. However, I have had groups not do that, even in 4 hour OS's. A group of 15 physicians broke in to 5 small groups immediately and then concluded with two. One board started by combining topics to meet in the whole group to deal with some common board issues and then broke in small groups of 2's and 3's for the rest of the day. The senior management team stayed in small groups the whole time but the space was opened within a larger planning process so that they had already spent time together and knew they would again. It is amazing how even with small groups, people do what they need to do at the current state of their group -- all together or with the freedom to take individual or small group initiative. Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation Toronto, ON, Canada 416.653.4829 la...@spiritedorg.com www.spiritedorg.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
