It works just the same as for large meetings. I have long been an advocate of using OST for staff meetings, and have seen it work in a couple of places. When I worked in government we used it as a process for our unit of 10 people on a bi-weekly basis. Most of them time, the group stayed together, but a few times we had breakout groups form where we needed to work on specific projects (like job description reclassifications or allocating training budgets). We toyed with the idea of posting the reports from these meeting on the staff intranet, but the tools were too cumbersome to use at that time, six years ago. In the end, we mostly posted updates and reports on a staff bulletin board in our work area.
These days, I might turn to collaborative software like a wiki or project weblogs to keep folks informed of progress and extend the staff meeting OSTs into asynchronous time so that work could continue to unfold through the week. Cheers, Chris --- CHRIS CORRIGAN Bowen Island, BC, Canada http://www.chriscorrigan.com [email protected] (604) 947-9236 > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jennifer > Hurley > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 9:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Question RE Using Open Space for Staff Meetings > > Hello again. Thank you all for your throughtful responses to my question > about starting an Open Space event with a Visioning Exercise. The Church > I am working with has decided to develop a "Behavioral Covenant" first, > and postpone the Open Space to the fall. I'll say more as the time gets > closer. > > Now I have a totally different question. I'm principal in a small > planning consulting firm (2 principals & 3 employees). I'm intrigued by > the possibility of using open space for our weekly staff meetings, but I'd > like to read more about how OS works for short meetings (ours are usually > about an hour) and with very small numbers of people. Does anyone have > suggestions? Is there anything on the WIKI pages about this? > > Thanks, > Jennifer Hurley > ***** > Hurley~Franks & Assoc. > 1429 Walnut St., Suite 601 > Philadelphia, PA 19102 > http://www.hfadesign.com > > Association for New Urbanism in Pennsylvania (ANUPA) > http://www.anupa.org > > * > * > ========================================================== > [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
