Carla The 5 themes did come out of a previous OST event. The sponsor is the largest social housing provider in North America and has a group of "tenant representatives" from 27 local housing groups/clusters that total almost 350. The first event helped them explore the broadest theme of discovering the issues for staff and tenants to work together beyond their individual clusters. The five critical areas were seen to require some "drilling down" and so they chose to go at all 5 at once, rather than do it sequentially as it takes lots of organizing to get such meetings together. (My advice was to go sequentially, but I'm not the sponsor.) There was a real concern to get some more stuff going on the 5 themes and to demonstrate to tenants that they were willing to do so. Now that we have had the first follow-up meeting to that event, the capacity of mid and front line staff to deal with multiple tenant/staff initiatives is being explored. It is also the ability to provide staffing without "controlling" -- a hard learning for those who were trained in social work.
Larry Larry Peterson Associates in Transformation Toronto, ON, Canada 416.653.4829 [email protected] www.spiritedorg.com * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
