Hi Michael,
Great idea! As a new OS practitionner and a communications
consultant, that follow up and support from management is the one
thing that "worries" me. After an OS event, it's easy to let the
day-to-day stuff take over. Crafting right then and there a summary
for other people not attending is a great way to start creating that
ripple effect. Thanks for sharing it :-))
Esther
At 17:27 2007-04-05, you wrote:
Hi All,
Just back from a "senior executive forum" for a company in South
Africa, 1.5 days in OS, where we did something new and different
with documentation. We tweaked the notes reporting template to help
start a weblog with the proceedings, as soon as the corporate IT
guys can get the tech side of things together.
This Forum was top 60 people in the company. 600 others report to
them. The 60 have been meeting semi-annually for several years, and
know themselves to be a circle. The 600 are the beginning of the
rest of the org (of 12,000 total) all of which currently knows
itself as a set of silos rather than circles.
So with the proceedings, we asked the usual... issue, convener,
participants, summary. To satisfy the corporate yearning for
action, we had a space for 'immediate next steps' in the
template. Then we added to other fields: Summary for 600 direct
reports (if not same as above) and Summary for Whole Organization
(if not....).
On most issues, scribes said share with all. On a few issues,
qualified summaries were written. On all issues, this will provide
the necessary info to establish a weblog that can be open to at
least the next largest circle, with the thought that this new view
of "strategy" might be offered to the 600 and ultimately "leaked"
out to the rest of the organization.
The hope is that we might use these proceedings and followup news in
weblog form to help turn the 600 into a circle of conversations,
that might eventually also be convened periodically, in whole or in
parts, in open space. It helps, as well, that these 60 will
continue to meet and generate news in semi-annual gatherings.
I thought there might be other places where we are working where it
would make sense to ask participants to craft directly and
immediately their messages for some larger circle of colleagues or
stakeholders, with or without a blog structure as the
delivery/conversation vehicle.
Anybody else documenting events in weblogs these days?
On our way from "meetings" to "practice."
Cheers, MichaelH
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