Thomas the voting procedure I used (which is also in my book) was actually taken from Andrew Delbec and the so called Nominal Group Process. It uses a weighted score (assign 10 to your highest, 9,8,7 etc) When this is done on a computer, which we have done, it is very simple and efficient. And with the software we used, the results came out as bar graphs, which made all the engineers very happy. The details, as I said are in The Users Guide.
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 Thomas Herrmann Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 5:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: voting - after coming home from an OST-meeting Dear friends in Open Space I am having discussions with a friend of mine who runs a company which does surveys for companies in a quite interesting and easy way by using Internet. In September I will facilitate an OST-meeting with about 350 people only 5-6 hours. I would like to try letting the participants have the documentation sent and allowing time for reading before voting on which are most important to them. A couple of times I´ve let participants answer via email which of course is a lot of work. So in order to do one less thing I´d like to try this software which we very easily can modify to meet our needs. My question is: What recommendations/ideas do you have for the voting. When I use stickies in physical voting (which I´ve done with quite large groups) I usually give them something like 5 votes to use as they like all five on one issue or spread out. This could be one alternative for this software too. I know some of you let people put 10 votes on the top one, 9 on the second most important and so on until 1. So I would appreciate pros and cons that you see/have experienced about these methods and any other suggestions. Warmest regards Thomas Herrmann Phone +46 (0)709-98 97 81 Open Space Consulting Fax +46 (0)300-713 89 Pensévägen 4 434 46 Kungsbacka, Sweden Email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\Administrator\Application%20Data\Micr osoft\Signaturer\www.openspaceconsulting.com> www.openspaceconsulting.com ---------------------------------------------------- Vill du skapa en välmående och effektiv organisation och ta tillvara hela dess potential? Open Space Consulting erbjuder dig: * Lärtillfällen kring hälsa och balans i organisationer * Analyser av organisatorisk hälsa och balans * Handledning av effektiva och kreativa möten och konferenser * Utbildning av mötes- och processhandledare * Coaching för organisationer i förändring ---------------------------------------------------- Vårt antivirusskydd scannar alla utgående mail. Infekterade mail stoppas automatiskt. * * ========================================================== [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
