The beauty of that way of voting is that it keeps passion and responsibility together...whatever wants to get out of the room does so with a champion carrying it forward.
My practice these days is to do that and then invite a future gathering of champions, say a month after the OST to reconvene and check in on the progress of things with each other. That is a good time too to see if people need help from one another, and it begins a little council of action to sustain whatever is emerging. Chris On 3/26/07, Thomas Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Carla Thanks for your answer, I love that way of converging as well, but this time I don´t think it will be ripe to do that. To my judgement the theme is too wide and the time too little, so we will think about other ways to go on afterwards – maybe more OST-meetings or online as they are normally spread out all over Sweden. Or they may go for more time for the actual OS-meeting – we´ll see that in our planning-meeting. But as I see the circumstances now, this seems like a good way. Thanks also to Harrison – of course I´ve looked it up in "the book"! Remembered it was there. Best regards Thomas ------------------------------ *Från:* Vliex, Carla (cvl) [mailto:[email protected]] *Skickat:* den 25 mars 2007 23:46 *Till:* [email protected] *Ämne:* RE: voting - after coming home from an OST-meeting Dear Thomas After a very busy time, I am back here on the list. I remeber I had a same question some years ago. I learned from the list, I think it was Michael Pannewitz, a quite other way to vote. I used it ever aftherwards. It is very simple; just open space again and ask who wants to bring one of the subjects (early mentioned) one step further. It is simple and I think more inline with the proces of Open space than te stickie voting. wishing you succes with the Open Space meeting warm regards Carla Vliex from the Netherlands Met vriendelijke groet, drs. Carla Vliex Adviseur Organisatie Ontwikkeling *------------------------------------------------------------------* *Twynstra Gudde Adviseurs en Managers* Stationsplein 1, 3818 LE Amersfoort Postbus 907, 3800 AX Amersfoort 033-4677761 06 53927407 Internet www.twynstragudde.nl ------------------------------ *From:* OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Thomas Herrmann *Sent:* zondag 25 maart 2007 23:14 *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: [email protected] 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. * * ========================================================== OSLIST@ LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ 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
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