Hey everyone! We'd love your help and input! We're a diverse team of people coming together to make a difference in the workplace! A giant leap and a deep conviction that it’s time for OS to spread far and wide in the workplace...NOW! Considering all the time we spend at work, at the very least we should be having more fun!
As *Linda Stevenson*, on our planning team, describes it, everything in the world of work today screams a need for Open Space. This urgency is at the heart of our event. A two-day Open Space with a brief keynote to kick it off by *Josh Allan Dykstra* who wrote *Igniting the Invisible Tribe, Designing an Organization That Doesn’t Suck*. His book makes the case for WHY organizations need to be more connected, human, and meaningful, and we know that Open Space is the HOW to make this happen. Our goal is to attract *diverse* individuals and teams from progressive companies and from other learning organizations – people, across the ranks in different functions and roles, who know that we cannot continue to operate with the command-control, predictability-control, hierarchical models that are still so prevalent in the world today. Self-organizing, self-management, shared leadership are waiting to happen – making invisible tribes more visible as they engage in powerful and surprising collaborations. We launched our invitation a few weeks ago. We’re reaching out to everyone we know who is passionate about this *including all of you!* Your thoughts and insights most appreciated... EventbriteInvite: <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inventing-the-future-we-would-love-to-work-in-now-tickets-11251669045> PDF detailed invitation: http://joshallan.com/downloads/Engagement-In-Action-Invitation_Josh-Allan-Dykstra.pdf We would love you to join us and we would greatly appreciate it if you reached out to clients and colleagues. Lots of take away learning for participants not the least of which experiencing open space and people hearing and learning from each other’s success stories and struggles. Other folks on our team: *Kevin O’Brien* who was with W.L. Gore. Gore is best known as the developer of waterproof, breathable Gore-Tex. Founded in 1958, they are a hugely successful company involved in a host of other specialized products. Kevin was a chemical engineer at Gore for 7 years. Gore’s is a culture that lives and breathes the self-organizing principles of open space. *Derek Wade*, a collaboration expert and team coach versed in Agile, Scrum and a host of leadership processes was part of an Open Space group in Arizona who saw the possibilities of applying “Scrum beyond Software” to the wider world of work. This is our maiden voyage workplace event! We passionately believe in this. We are talking to a lot of people and the conversations have been fantastic. Thank you for helping us spread the word, and please come join us! *On a** very personal note* Five years ago at age 55, I discovered Open Space. It rocked my world! I immediately recognized its full-throttle power to rapidly engage people across the ranks in our organizations. It was the best “one less thing to do” approach I had ever experienced. I ran towards it, holding nothing back and I haven’t stopped since. Today is my 60thbirthday and I am feeling vibrantly alive in large part due to Open Space and the purpose-filled mission it has given me in my career and my life. Working on projects like the one above with commitment and urgency, with the most wonderful people, is totally awesome. Yesterday an early birthday gift when Switch and Shift, the 2nd most socially-shared top 100 blog list on leadership, featured something I wrote on Open Space. The positive tweets are reverberating in my soul. It's time to Open Space in the Workplace<http://switchandshift.com/its-time-to-open-space-in-the-workplace> ! So I end this OS list note to say “I love this community and so many people in it”! Better to share that now than later when I can’t say it virtually like this, up close and personal. Because Open Space does indeed put us in touch with those big things like Birth, Life and Death! Thank you Harrison and so many others on whose shoulders I (and we) have the privilege to stand on. And yes, by all means please help us bust the doors open, by inviting people you know to our trailblazing event in Minneapolis. We see this as the first of many opportunities to open special new spaces in many workplaces everywhere! Suzanne -- Suzanne Daigle Open Space Facilitator NuFocus Strategic Group FL 941-359-8877941-359-8877 Cell: 203-722-2009203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] twitter @Daiglesuz Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -- Suzanne Daigle Open Space Facilitator NuFocus Strategic Group FL 941-359-8877941-359-8877 Cell: 203-722-2009203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] twitter @Daiglesuz Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype -- Suzanne Daigle Open Space Facilitator NuFocus Strategic Group FL 941-359-8877941-359-8877 Cell: 203-722-2009203-722-2009 www.nufocusgroup.com [email protected] twitter @Daiglesuz Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype
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