Hege, You've already gotten many wonderful responses to your questions! I offer one item that might be helpful to you or even helpful to share with the managers.
It is a 16 minute video of an Open Space at a telephone company: http://vimeo.com/25251316 It contains interviews of people before, throughout and after an OS event. Harrison provides an explanation of Open Space principles woven throughout the video. I thought of the video because most of the participants were network technicians -- the people who climb telephone poles. (Before the wires all went underground.) They may not be ship builders, but they are blue collar workers. I remember toward the end of this 2 1/2 day event, one of the network technicians speaking about how moving it was for him to run a breakout session. It was the first time he had ever been entrusted to do something like that. Enjoy! Peggy _________________________________ Peggy Holman pe...@peggyholman.com 15347 SE 49th Place Bellevue, WA 98006 425-746-6274 www.peggyholman.com www.journalismthatmatters.org Enjoy the award winning Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity "An angel told me that the only way to step into the fire and not get burnt, is to become the fire". -- Drew Dellinger On Dec 6, 2012, at 2:21 PM, "Harrison Owen" <hho...@verizon.net> wrote: > Hege -- Be BOLD! I think I understand what the folks have asked for... but > you can offer them SO MUCH MORE! Of course they can refuse, but they can > never refuse what is not offered!! SO "Go for the Gold!" Tell them that, > sure you can do an Open Space for 20 -- but for the same price it could be > for 200. And the result would be quantum factors greater. Why do in 2 (or > more) steps what could easily be done in 1? Get everybody together -- all > around "Building Better Ships." And should they (The Management) refuse, it > is their loss. Presuming that these are good "bottom line" types they should > be able to see the bargain. I think it is all about efficiency, > effectiveness, and profitability. Words they will understand -- if they want > to remain in business. :-) > > ho > > Harrison Owen > 7808 River Falls Dr. > Potomac, MD 20854 > USA > > 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) > Camden, Maine 20854 > > Phone 301-365-2093 > (summer) 207-763-3261 > > www.openspaceworld.com > www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST > Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org > [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Hege Steinsland > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:08 PM > To: World wide Open Space Technology email list > Subject: Re: [OSList] advice and courage > > Wow - wow - wow! > I`m amazed to come home from two working days, and find this treasure in my > inbox. This is really encouraging, and I m så inspired by your advices and > thoughts. > > I`m going to talk to the managers tomorrow and make a suggestion. As I > understand it, this is first a couple of days only for the leadergroup, but > I still will suggest to use Open Space. > > Will you still recomend to use more than one day - If the group are no more > than about 20 people? > > Thanks a lot! > > Hege > > 4. des. 2012 kl. 20:30 skrev Harrison Owen <hho...@verizon.net>: > >> This could be fun. Two thoughts immediately spring to mind. 1st and >> Best -- How about a 2 day Open Space with "all hands" (not just the >> managers) with a theme something like, "Building the Best Ships: Issues > and Opportunities." >> You would get some real work done, motivation would be a natural >> byproduct, and everybody would have fun. I've never worked in a >> shipyard this way -- but it did remind me of the 500 Boeing Engineers, >> mechanics, and managers who got together for several days and >> redesigned the way they made doors for their aircraft. Of course you >> could do the same thing with just the managers, but that wouldn't be >> as effective or fun -- therefore the 2nd Best idea. >> >> ho >> >> Harrison Owen >> 7808 River Falls Dr. >> Potomac, MD 20854 >> USA >> >> 189 Beaucaire Ave. (summer) >> Camden, Maine 20854 >> >> Phone 301-365-2093 >> (summer) 207-763-3261 >> >> www.openspaceworld.com >> www.ho-image.com (Personal Website) >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of >> OSLIST Go >> to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.or >> g >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org >> [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Hege >> Steinsland >> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 2:00 PM >> To: World wide Open Space Technology email list >> Subject: [OSList] advice and courage >> >> Hi wise people. >> >> I ve been i an meeting today with a production leader in a big shipyard. >> They are in for a year with heavy work, and want to start i january >> with a couple of days to motivate and empower the leaderteam in the > production. >> This is in mainly operational leaders, on the floor. The group is >> about 20 people. >> >> They are used to Quite a hiarcic organisation, but are sometimes >> working in a projects, and sometimes in the line ( if that make sence) >> >> The production leader and HR manager want to do use some of the time, >> thise two days, to really emphasize the impotance of work moral, short >> brakes and fleksebillity, and accountability fram everyone. >> >> And then they ask me what I can offer? >> >> Are any of you motivated to join in with some thoughts or Ideas here? >> Im not sure how to approach this. >> >> All the best from >> Hege >> >> ( will be away for a couple of days...) >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe >> send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe >> send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org To unsubscribe send an > email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to OSList@lists.openspacetech.org > To unsubscribe send an email to oslist-le...@lists.openspacetech.org > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
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