Marty said: Here are my two questions: a) In the Users Manual, you say that "with a sizable group (fifty and larger), electronic tallying is infinitely preferred." But in this email, you say that "with small groups (<100) Sticky dots do the job."
b) In the Users Manual, you recommend the use of 55 sticky dots per person, but in your email, you recommend just 5. In the quest for simplicity, it seems you have removed about 5 per year! My Answer -- Consistency was never one of my virtues. And when it comes to closure (consensus or otherwise) I recommend Sniffy. Works every time, but you may not be asked back! But I never was a real fan of consensus. Moving the business seemed more important. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Boroson Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:34 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu Harrison I checked the Users Manual (always next to my desk) on convergence, as you suggested. Forgive me for quoting you back to you, but there are a couple of differences between what you said in the Manual and what you've written below, and I'm really interested in understanding how your thinking/practice has evolved in the last ten years. (I'm also planning a couple of 3-day events where formal convergence and voting is very important to the clients.) Here are my two questions: a) In the Users Manual, you say that "with a sizable group (fifty and larger), electronic tallying is infinitely preferred." But in this email, you say that "with small groups (<100) Sticky dots do the job." b) In the Users Manual, you recommend the use of 55 sticky dots per person, but in your email, you recommend just 5. In the quest for simplicity, it seems you have removed about 5 per year! :) Many thanks, Marty -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Harrison Owen Sent: 04 March 2008 13:15 To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Re: Convergence for Group Consensu Pretty simple -- Sticky dots or voting. (Details all in the User's Guide)With small groups (<100) Sticky dots do the job. Just give everybody the same number of dots (5 works well) and invite them to past their dots on the Issue(s) they love. They can place all the dots, a few or none. Then count the dots or just eyeball it. Harrison Harrison Owen 7808 River Falls Drive Potomac, Maryland 20854 Phone 301-365-2093 Skype hhowen Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org Personal website www.ho-image.com OSLIST: To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: www.listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html -----Original Message----- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of Kimberley Willing Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 11:09 PM To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Subject: Convergence for Group Consensu Does anyone have any experience or advice in 'converging' open space, in such a way that the emerging consensus of the whole group is identified? Specifically, I have a 2 day event coming up - the purpose of which is to develop a best practice framework for reporting on the topic, and at least to develop a check list of issues to be addressed in preparing such a reporting framework. Day 1 could be spent diverging (in Open Space) and I am wondering how best to converge on Day 2, given that one outcome mine host would like to see, is an articulation of the level of agreement of the whole group on certain matters. 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