Re: Key Personalities From: Romy Shovelton To: Harrison Owen Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: Key Personalities
Hi Diana As others have said.... a familiar issue/conversation/request.... One caution I would add is this.... If you have named/ feature people and they offer OS sessions (ie. within the OS vs before and separately) you will likely 'unbalance' the 'openness' of the Open Space. What tends to happen is that many people will be drawn to sessions offered by the 'names'. Guess many of us are up for an easy life and being fed... and/or getting a kinda free workshop?! This means that the other sessions offered by 'regular' participants tend to get denuded. This was a significant issue in an OS I ran for Harrison in Mauritius with the YPO (Young Presidents Organisation) - having incidentally cautioned/advised them against running names sessions within the OS time. You could of course say 'whoever comes...' etc, which is also true... and magic will naturally still appear. And.... I simply offer an additional note of caution. It can be wonderful if the 'names' stay around after speaking (eg. Speaking day/evening before, as HO suggests)...and are then just free to use their 2 feet as everyone else in the OS. All the very best with this one Romy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Harrison Owen <hho...@adelphia.net> Reply-To: Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:41:00 -0400 To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Key Personalities I have been through this on a number of occasions. My advice is that if you want "names" have them come the night before, or the day before (Panals, talking heads etc) -- and when you open space, do just that. Of course i would also invite the Featured Folks to stay for the real party. The good ones will, and the rest you probably wouldn't want anyhow. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Dr. Potomac, MD 20854 USA 301-365-2093 207-763-3261 (summer) website www.openspaceworld.com <http://www.openspaceworld.com> Personal Website www.ho-image.com <http://www.ho-image.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Diana Larsen <mailto:dlar...@futureworksconsulting.com> To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 12:54 PM Subject: Key Personalities Hello all, I'm working with two or three conference planning groups who want to hold conferences completely in Open Space next year. They all have a little concern about whether they can attract the kind of participation they'd like without well-known KeyNote or Invited Speakers - the folks whose presence justifies the participants' attendance to bosses, etc. One planning group came up with the idea of inviting Key Personalities and offering them honoraria and help with travel expenses as if it were a regular conference - but asking them /not/ to give keynote speeches. Their names would be included on the invitations to others as having committed to attend, possibly along with some topics they consider proposing for the marketplace. Has anyone tried this before? What do you all think about inviting "key personalities" to an Open Space conference? Has anyone done this? What benefits/pitfalls do you see, did you experience? I have mixed thoughts and emotions, and would like some further data to offer the planning groups. What effect on "Whoever comes are the right people" happens when some folks receive compensation for attendance and others don't? Thanks, Diana Diana Larsen www.futureworksconsulting.com <http://www.futureworksconsulting.com> 503-288-3550 Watch for: "Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great" by Esther Derby & Diana Larsen, available Summer 2006! Published by Pragmatic Bookshelf (new title!) http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/dlret/index.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
