Hi Olga, You are facilitating very short ost meetings. Here in Turkey, I am also asked to organize ost meetings for 2-3 hrs. I facilitated 3-4 short time meetings. As OST is the best and most efficient way to organize a meeting, all of them were very succesful. Then i facilitated other meetings organized by OST which took longer time. I think in one day OST meetings ( 6-7-8 hours), conversations get deeper, the frienship increases. In 2-3 days OST meetings the probability that people get organized and take action to make some changes together increases. The subject of your meeting, "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Trainings” is quite interesting. I guess due to the short time available, only the cost pertspective was discussed during the meeting. Given longer time, many another perspectives would have been discussed. Welcome, Regards, Funda
--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Ольга Золотарева <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ольга Золотарева <[email protected]> Subject: Hello To: [email protected] Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:02 AM Hello everyone! My name is Olga, I currently live and work in Moscow. In 2005 I came across OST for the first time, while I working in a telecommunications company. In 2006, I was a participant of an OST meeting in St. Petersburg led by Raffi Aftandelian. Then I started to use this approach in my workshops. I want to thank Raffi for helping me see how OST and OS principles can inform my training approach. Also, I’d like to thank him for information about OSLIST. It helps me to acquire additional experience and find answers to my questions. This year I have been using OST as a part of my workshops. Usually I offer a three hours OST meeting towards the end of each two day workshop. These short OST meetings are an opportunity for participants to talk about those things around which they have a real passion. Also in August this year I conducted an OST meeting for a corporate training club in Voronezh, a provincial city near Moscow. The theme of meeting was “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Trainings.” I think this kind of meeting is very important for corporate Russian training sector. It was interesting to hear different opinions about the evaluation of business education. Many participants thought that many evaluation approaches are impossible as they require lots of resources: time, money, people to do the work. And often the evaluation ends up being more resource-intensive than the actual training, be it short or long-term. The meeting of corporate trainers lasted just three hours; the sessions lasted for one hour. And the trainers spent the whole time together. Thanks for everything. Greetings from Moscow, Olga. * * ========================================================== [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
