Dear Blake, First-what are you doing awake at this hour if you are facilitating tomorrow :) Best thing you can do is take care of you.
Okay, okay, easier said than done, sometimes. About convergence. Keep it simple. What you had originally planned sounds fine. And if people want to work on more than one item, they can give their name to the convenor of the other items saying they want to be included. Don't forget, the action planning usually is about immediate next steps and there will be more opportunities to get involved. It is dangerous to ask questions about convergence/action planning on this list. You are likely to get 30 totally different suggestions from 30 different people (or 50 suggestions from 10 people). We all like to give advice. So---go with what you had figured to go with, and trust that all will go well, and just as it should. I hold you in the light through your facilitation. Trust. Birgitt -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Blake Mills Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Last minute (gulp!) help...midnight check in To all of you who are awake late night Eastern Standard Time in the US and around the world, I would like your thoughts....or maybe just some reassurance. I am opening space tomorrow morning (1/10) for 130 high tech, in-your-face, fast-paced, serious and wild, very smart people. It is 1 and 1/2 days. Their theme is "How do we make our goals happen this year in our virtual workplace?" I was all set with the convergence activity until I spoke with the sponsor tonight and I think I caught his anxiety. Now I am second quessing at the last minute. That is where you come in...you who are awake and willing. How would you converge 130 people who don't want to prioritize and hate touchy-feeling stuff? Here's what I planned given the sponsoring managers did not want to prioritize the topics at the end. They felt the work would get done by the passionate and responsible people anyway which was what happened with their very successful smaller OS last year. I have them post the "breaking news" all during the day. On the converging morning I am having them "walk the wall" of topics to review, add comments, note links to other topics, etc. for about an hour. Then I would have them meet with the conveners on the topic that they felt passionate about and that they wanted to work on. In that meeting they would decide the very next action step. (about an hour) Then the closing circle (brief) for 45 minutes. That was my plan. However, after thinking about it with the sponsor...people are going/t to want to meet about 2, 3 or 4 topics. How to do that all at once? Maybe split the estimated 25 to 35 topics in half and have 1/2 hour for each section of topics? I hope you can understand all of this. Maybe I just do Nuran's...."you all converge...go to it!" Back to making the matrix. Thanks for any help! Blake * * ========================================================== [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, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
