Answering to your question, Eva, and this is only my "feeeling", the answer is: No, I wouldn't. I would be worried about the possibility of giving a bad feeling to the customer about what OST is. I agree with Lisa that World Cafe could be an alternative, for such short time
Regards from the western side of Europe. Artur ------------ --- On Fri, 6/26/09, Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> wrote: From: Lisa Heft <lisah...@openingspace.net> Subject: Re: [OSLIST] SV: [OSLIST] would you do it? To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 11:14 AM Hi, Ms. fabulous Eva - Of course my first question is 'why open space' for this short of a time when other tools may be used (for example World Cafe fits nicely with your objectives if you include good design of a documentation / harvesting component). If the client says 'well Paolo experienced Open Space and thought it was fabulous') it gives an opportunity to explain how the deliverables of Open Space change depending on time available, how other forms may help instead, etc. - this often leads to a 'Well, we actually have 3 hours because we can have them eat breakfast in the same room' or 'Oh, World Cafe would be marvelous' sort of thing. As you well know. I've done OS for 850 and 2000 and all other sorts of group sizes - it's all in the a) choice of best tool for the job of course (do you want to offer OS if it doesn't give them multiple session times to help them mix and match? would another tool work better?) and b) the logistics, as you know. With only one session (I'm imagining there's only the one session but do correct me) folks don't have much time to 'learn' the room - what sort of signage can you provide so someone can look across an 800-person room to immediately see where discussion group 'ZZ' or 'M' are. Often I've organized the room into color quadrants to further help people navigate - the signage on that quarter of the room is red and so are all those discussion signs, for example. I'd be happy to share some thoughts about logistics, room set-up and such if you like for large groups, if you decide that 'yes, it is OS that we will be using'. And then there's the documentation. For one session, what level of documentation do you / can you design into the process. A list of topics may be it - unless the client has staffing capability to / interest in transcrib(ing) written notes after the event. Of course there are many other questions and discussions to have about how to deliver what the client needs within the timeframe of the conference (a list of 'hot topics' to show back to the conference - the list of all topics generated? More than that? ...as that impacts both process and documentation. They are lucky to have such a skilled OS facilitator as you, Ms. Eva, Lisa Lisa Heft Consultant, Facilitator, Educator Opening Space lisah...@openingspace.net www.openingspace.net Join me for the Open Space Learning Workshops August 5-7 and December 9-11, San Francisco On Jun 26, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Eva P Svensson wrote: Hi Joe! Yes - that is of course what I hope for - but still doubting since the final "power" of decision lies with some people in Brussels and my contact here in Sweden have to "convince" them in their turn - but as you said - that is first priority and I think I have got another ½h so know we are up in 2h. :o) Eva * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
