Hello, all - When prioritization of key issues is part of the design in an Open Space event, sometimes people post the original topic/issues signs (the ones from the agenda wall) around the room. Participants either read the hand-written notes placed under each topic (if a book of proceedings has not been printed) or read in their books for an hour or so. Then they place a colored adhesive dot on the "x" number of key issues (these defined according to the design the facilitator creates with the client -five things we can do on Monday, things we can do with no money, things we want to move forward as hot issues to the so-and-so committee). Or they can make a mark on the items they feel should be moved forward. Of course there are other ways to see how the group feels about key issues, such as reopening the space, creating affinity groups by standing by the one issue they wish to champion, using voting software, etc.
For the method using dots or marks, does anyone have a mathematical formula for deciding how many dots each participant should be given for a certain number of key issues as an outcome? For example - if you want the group to highlight the 5 top issues for this group right now, how many dots do you give each participant if you have 20 people, if you have 200, etc. And maybe you don't need to show the 5 top issues, maybe you need to show the whatever-rises-to-the-top issues - you won't limit the number but will call anything that is clearly a majority of votes a key issue. Does the math change? I'm writing a paper on convergence.ideally you'll see it on my future website if I ever can sculpt it (the paper - the website's coming closer) into a manageable shape. Thank you, dear colleagues, Lisa L i s a H e f t Consultant, facilitator, educator O p e n i n g S p a c e 2325 Oregon Berkeley, California 94705-1106 USA (+01) 510 548-8449 [email protected] (coming soon: www.openingspace.net) * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
