I think Nuran is probably right open the space and let them converge into it.
Dots help individuals think about priority before they use there feet. You can also let people "post-it" on to teams instead of bi-locate. They can tell the team they want to be involved in implementation even though they feel called to another topic at first. Just some quick thoughts. If you do not ell them it is touchy feely they may not realize it. With respect, Larry Lawrence E Philbrook Director ICA Taiwan 3/F No 12 Lane 5 Tien Mou West Road Taipei 111, Taiwan T: 2871 3150 F: 28712870 -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Blake Mills Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 10:39 AM 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
