I always find 1.5 hr slots to be comfortable. Less will surely work, and more seems to be too much. Can't say this is "right" - but it works for me.
Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training <http://www.openspaceworld.com/> www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute <http://www.openspaceworld.org/> www.openspaceworld.org Personal website <http://www.ho-image.com/> www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: <http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html> www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brendan McKeague Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Optimal Time-Slots In a two day open space events, are 1.5 hour time-slots preferable to 1 hour slots? Let me know the 'right' answer please.... or maybe not! Brendan At 10:49 PM 23/02/2006, you wrote: Andrew: I've also seen, on two occasions, a breakout group of about 100 (in a 5-600 person event.) These groups seem to get along just fine even if it was a little hard for the outliers to hear. They both went for 1.5 hours and a bit beyond with some, but not a lot, of attrition. We "know" that the ideal group discussion is with 8-12 people (from the small group evidence). We know, from "Wisdom of Crowds" that hundreds or thousands in aggregated decision making do much better than the one "expert" (given the evidence). We really don't "know" how many people can be held together in "collective focus" - consciously or unconsciously. 100 in a break out? 2000 in a OS event. A country? ???? Being happy with not-knowing allows for wonderful surprises. OSonOSinOZ sounds like it was a great stimulus for thinking! 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]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
