Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Hi Chris,

Yes for sure I do !
However it is my role to come up with a few different suggestions that
could fit to their context and goal.  They have  a interesting  culture
that is mix of hierarchy and autonomy, but lack experience with large group
dialogue.
Now what I have is a broader range of possibilities. I'll think over that a
bit. And from here start a discussion with them.

Thanks for your input !

Christine

2017-10-22 8:48 GMT+02:00 Chris Altmikus @ iDeA-Link <
chris.altmi...@idea-link.eu>:

> Dear Christine,
>
> The thread you have invited is rich… Much has been said. Let me add one
> single thought.
>
> I hope you work with a small groups of passionate people from within the
> company. Once you hold designs that you feel could work, why not invite
> them to finalize the design together with you…
>
> Kindly+   Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Chris Altmikus @ iDeA-Link via OSList]

Dear Christine,The thread you have invited is rich… Much has been said. Let me add one single thought.I hope you work with a small groups of passionate people from within the company. Once you hold designs that you feel could work, why not invite them to finalize the design together with you… Kindly    +   Chris


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Le 21 oct. 2017 à 23:04, christine koehler via OSList  a écrit :Indeed, thank you all for your inputs! I have now 3 main different possible designs, and lots of details to add here and there that can fit in any of them. that's great! I 'll leave it like this for a while and see what's going to sediment. I'll keep you informed in a few months of the follow-up of the story.Thank you again for responding so quickly and being so generous with your pieces of advice.Christine 2017-10-20 8:15 GMT+02:00 Carmela Ariza via OSList :
Hi MichaelThanks for sharing your experience.  This could also help Christine decide on the process design. Warm regardsCarms Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhoneOn Friday, October 20, 2017, 12:46, Michael M Pannwitz  wrote:Dear Ariza,on several occasions that I was involved in as facilitator, there were Action Planning/Action Space events a week or two weeks after the OST gathering (the 3.5 hour version without any prioritisation or harvesting of what had happend in the OST meeting but with everyone reading and augmenting the report sheets before they were distributed to all).Several things I noticed:--- fewer folks (about one third of those who had come to the OST event) came--- new folks who had not been at the OST event came (my assumptions: they were invited by people who had been at the OST event because they were needed for whatever reason, they could not attend the original OST event for whatever reason)--- the time after the exciting and creative OST event back in the everyday life of the organization appears to have had the character of a "reality check"  producing sustainable agreements on Next Steps to be taken--- new projects for which I could not see any evidence in the Book of Proceedings that was produced at the end of the OST event.In my approach there is a 3.5 hour Planning Meeting session before the OST event. One of the key tasks there is to identify who needs to be invited to the event to productively work on what people attending the Planning Meeting envisioned to be the outcome of the OST event under the Topic for the event that they had agreed on.Of course, the folks planning the OST event are at the Planning Meeting and they also come to the event in the role of sponsor.This is the prerequisite for having everyone needed to be invited.No need to focus on the "leaders", especially if you work under the assumption that all who come "lead". If formald "leaders" dont show up, the "leaders" present in the OST event and in the Action Planning will come up with ingenious ways to get the formal "leaders" involved.Liebe Christine,jetzt muss Dir ja der Kopf rauchen mit so vielen Hinweisen, Ratschlägen, etc. Du bist auf jeden Fall die Richtige für dieses Projekt!Greetings from Berlin where I am enjoying the quickly changing pastel hues of an early fall sunrisemmmpAm 20.10.2017 um 01:25 schrieb Carmela Ariza:> Hi Christine, Hi Michael> > I like the action space idea, the invite all who cares in addition to > the hosts or who proposed an agenda.> > I am not sure if postponing the action planning to a later date will be > the best option as it may dampen the enthusiasm generated by the OS > sessions. But if someone else has tried this and would say it could work > better than having it all in one go per OS event, then why not try this > too.> > The convergence of ideas in the "action space" must involve the key > decision makers. The "must" might be a wrong word to use in OS as we > always say "invite" but since this will entail possible massive > organizational change then it would be good to have all or most of the > key decision makers in the action space.> > The documentation of each OS Sessions will be critical as this will help > everyone follow the thread of the conversations in the action space.> > To give the documentation team adequate time put all outputs together > and also for the hosts to comment on the encoded outputs - it may be > best to have a gap between the last OS day of the 3rd batch to the > convergence session.> > Or how do you plan to do the documentation?> > I think this is an amazing opportunity both for the company and you > Christine. WOW!!> > Warm regards from Can Tho (Vietnam)> > Carms> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> > On Friday, October 20, 2017, 04:27, christine koehler via OSLi

Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Indeed, thank you all for your inputs!

I have now 3 main different possible designs, and lots of details to add
here and there that can fit in any of them. that's great! I 'll leave it
like this for a while and see what's going to sediment.

I'll keep you informed in a few months of the follow-up of the story.


Thank you again for responding so quickly and being so generous with your
pieces of advice.

Christine









2017-10-20 8:15 GMT+02:00 Carmela Ariza via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>:

> Hi Michael
>
> Thanks for sharing your experience.  This could also help Christine decide
> on the process design.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Carms
>
>
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
> 
>
> On Friday, October 20, 2017, 12:46, Michael M Pannwitz <
> mmpannw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Ariza,
>
> on several occasions that I was involved in as facilitator, there were
> Action Planning/Action Space events a week or two weeks after the OST
> gathering (the 3.5 hour version without any prioritisation or harvesting
> of what had happend in the OST meeting but with everyone reading and
> augmenting the report sheets before they were distributed to all).
>
> Several things I noticed:
>
> --- fewer folks (about one third of those who had come to the OST event)
> came
> --- new folks who had not been at the OST event came (my assumptions:
> they were invited by people who had been at the OST event because they
> were needed for whatever reason, they could not attend the original OST
> event for whatever reason)
> --- the time after the exciting and creative OST event back in the
> everyday life of the organization appears to have had the character of a
> "reality check"  producing sustainable agreements on Next Steps to be taken
> --- new projects for which I could not see any evidence in the Book of
> Proceedings that was produced at the end of the OST event.
>
> In my approach there is a 3.5 hour Planning Meeting session before the
> OST event. One of the key tasks there is to identify who needs to be
> invited to the event to productively work on what people attending the
> Planning Meeting envisioned to be the outcome of the OST event under the
> Topic for the event that they had agreed on.
> Of course, the folks planning the OST event are at the Planning Meeting
> and they also come to the event in the role of sponsor.
> This is the prerequisite for having everyone needed to be invited.
> No need to focus on the "leaders", especially if you work under the
> assumption that all who come "lead". If formald "leaders" dont show up,
> the "leaders" present in the OST event and in the Action Planning will
> come up with ingenious ways to get the formal "leaders" involved.
>
> Liebe Christine,
> jetzt muss Dir ja der Kopf rauchen mit so vielen Hinweisen, Ratschlägen,
> etc. Du bist auf jeden Fall die Richtige für dieses Projekt!
>
> Greetings from Berlin where I am enjoying the quickly changing pastel
> hues of an early fall sunrise
>
> mmmp
>
>
>
>
> Am 20.10.2017 um 01:25 schrieb Carmela Ariza:
> > Hi Christine, Hi Michael
> >
> > I like the action space idea, the invite all who cares in addition to
> > the hosts or who proposed an agenda.
> >
> > I am not sure if postponing the action planning to a later date will be
> > the best option as it may dampen the enthusiasm generated by the OS
> > sessions. But if someone else has tried this and would say it could work
> > better than having it all in one go per OS event, then why not try this
> > too.
> >
> > The convergence of ideas in the "action space" must involve the key
> > decision makers. The "must" might be a wrong word to use in OS as we
> > always say "invite" but since this will entail possible massive
> > organizational change then it would be good to have all or most of the
> > key decision makers in the action space.
> >
> > The documentation of each OS Sessions will be critical as this will help
> > everyone follow the thread of the conversations in the action space.
> >
> > To give the documentation team adequate time put all outputs together
> > and also for the hosts to comment on the encoded outputs - it may be
> > best to have a gap between the last OS day of the 3rd batch to the
> > convergence session.
> >
> > Or how do you plan to do the documentation?
> >
> > I think this is an amazing opportunity both for the company and you
> > Christine. WOW!!
> >
> > Warm regards from Can Tho (Vietnam)
> >
> > Carms
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone  com/?.src=iOS>
> >
> > On Friday, October 20, 2017, 04:27, christine koehler via OSList
> >  wrote:
> >
> >Hi Michael
> >
> >Yes, the sponsor wants projects/initiatives.
> >
> >  From what you say, I understand that I could have done 3 OS without
> >action planning and then 1 day with Action space only.
> >That’s an interesting idea, thanks for sharing !
> >
> >Cheers from Paris, where we have lovely weath

Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Carmela Ariza via OSList]

Hi Michael
Thanks for sharing your experience.  This could also help Christine decide on 
the process design. 
Warm regards
Carms 


Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone


On Friday, October 20, 2017, 12:46, Michael M Pannwitz  
wrote:

Dear Ariza,

on several occasions that I was involved in as facilitator, there were 
Action Planning/Action Space events a week or two weeks after the OST 
gathering (the 3.5 hour version without any prioritisation or harvesting 
of what had happend in the OST meeting but with everyone reading and 
augmenting the report sheets before they were distributed to all).

Several things I noticed:

--- fewer folks (about one third of those who had come to the OST event) 
came
--- new folks who had not been at the OST event came (my assumptions: 
they were invited by people who had been at the OST event because they 
were needed for whatever reason, they could not attend the original OST 
event for whatever reason)
--- the time after the exciting and creative OST event back in the 
everyday life of the organization appears to have had the character of a 
"reality check"  producing sustainable agreements on Next Steps to be taken
--- new projects for which I could not see any evidence in the Book of 
Proceedings that was produced at the end of the OST event.

In my approach there is a 3.5 hour Planning Meeting session before the 
OST event. One of the key tasks there is to identify who needs to be 
invited to the event to productively work on what people attending the 
Planning Meeting envisioned to be the outcome of the OST event under the 
Topic for the event that they had agreed on.
Of course, the folks planning the OST event are at the Planning Meeting 
and they also come to the event in the role of sponsor.
This is the prerequisite for having everyone needed to be invited.
No need to focus on the "leaders", especially if you work under the 
assumption that all who come "lead". If formald "leaders" dont show up, 
the "leaders" present in the OST event and in the Action Planning will 
come up with ingenious ways to get the formal "leaders" involved.

Liebe Christine,
jetzt muss Dir ja der Kopf rauchen mit so vielen Hinweisen, Ratschlägen, 
etc. Du bist auf jeden Fall die Richtige für dieses Projekt!

Greetings from Berlin where I am enjoying the quickly changing pastel 
hues of an early fall sunrise

mmmp




Am 20.10.2017 um 01:25 schrieb Carmela Ariza:
> Hi Christine, Hi Michael
> 
> I like the action space idea, the invite all who cares in addition to 
> the hosts or who proposed an agenda.
> 
> I am not sure if postponing the action planning to a later date will be 
> the best option as it may dampen the enthusiasm generated by the OS 
> sessions. But if someone else has tried this and would say it could work 
> better than having it all in one go per OS event, then why not try this 
> too.
> 
> The convergence of ideas in the "action space" must involve the key 
> decision makers. The "must" might be a wrong word to use in OS as we 
> always say "invite" but since this will entail possible massive 
> organizational change then it would be good to have all or most of the 
> key decision makers in the action space.
> 
> The documentation of each OS Sessions will be critical as this will help 
> everyone follow the thread of the conversations in the action space.
> 
> To give the documentation team adequate time put all outputs together 
> and also for the hosts to comment on the encoded outputs - it may be 
> best to have a gap between the last OS day of the 3rd batch to the 
> convergence session.
> 
> Or how do you plan to do the documentation?
> 
> I think this is an amazing opportunity both for the company and you 
> Christine. WOW!!
> 
> Warm regards from Can Tho (Vietnam)
> 
> Carms
> 
> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone 
> 
> On Friday, October 20, 2017, 04:27, christine koehler via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
>    Hi Michael
> 
>    Yes, the sponsor wants projects/initiatives.
> 
>      From what you say, I understand that I could have done 3 OS without
>    action planning and then 1 day with Action space only.
>    That’s an interesting idea, thanks for sharing !
> 
>    Cheers from Paris, where we have lovely weather right now, probably
>    not for long
>    Have a nice trio to Iceland
>    Christine
>      > Le 19 oct. 2017 à 22:54, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
>        > a écrit :
>      >
>      > Dear Christine,
>      >
>      > is it Action/Projects/Initiatives/etc. that the sponsor wants?
>      >
>      > If so, they should simply invite any and all for Action Planning
>    or as some of us call it "Action Space".
>      >
>      > Convergence in the traditional way is more a detour into
>    statistics, dots and all than going the actionorienting route with
>    passion and responsibility.
>      >
>      > In my experience and book it takes exactly 3.5 hours regardless
>    of how many s

Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear Ariza,

on several occasions that I was involved in as facilitator, there were 
Action Planning/Action Space events a week or two weeks after the OST 
gathering (the 3.5 hour version without any prioritisation or harvesting 
of what had happend in the OST meeting but with everyone reading and 
augmenting the report sheets before they were distributed to all).


Several things I noticed:

--- fewer folks (about one third of those who had come to the OST event) 
came
--- new folks who had not been at the OST event came (my assumptions: 
they were invited by people who had been at the OST event because they 
were needed for whatever reason, they could not attend the original OST 
event for whatever reason)
--- the time after the exciting and creative OST event back in the 
everyday life of the organization appears to have had the character of a 
"reality check"  producing sustainable agreements on Next Steps to be taken
--- new projects for which I could not see any evidence in the Book of 
Proceedings that was produced at the end of the OST event.


In my approach there is a 3.5 hour Planning Meeting session before the 
OST event. One of the key tasks there is to identify who needs to be 
invited to the event to productively work on what people attending the 
Planning Meeting envisioned to be the outcome of the OST event under the 
Topic for the event that they had agreed on.
Of course, the folks planning the OST event are at the Planning Meeting 
and they also come to the event in the role of sponsor.

This is the prerequisite for having everyone needed to be invited.
No need to focus on the "leaders", especially if you work under the 
assumption that all who come "lead". If formald "leaders" dont show up, 
the "leaders" present in the OST event and in the Action Planning will 
come up with ingenious ways to get the formal "leaders" involved.


Liebe Christine,
jetzt muss Dir ja der Kopf rauchen mit so vielen Hinweisen, Ratschlägen, 
etc. Du bist auf jeden Fall die Richtige für dieses Projekt!


Greetings from Berlin where I am enjoying the quickly changing pastel 
hues of an early fall sunrise


mmmp




Am 20.10.2017 um 01:25 schrieb Carmela Ariza:

Hi Christine, Hi Michael

I like the action space idea, the invite all who cares in addition to 
the hosts or who proposed an agenda.


I am not sure if postponing the action planning to a later date will be 
the best option as it may dampen the enthusiasm generated by the OS 
sessions. But if someone else has tried this and would say it could work 
better than having it all in one go per OS event, then why not try this 
too.


The convergence of ideas in the "action space" must involve the key 
decision makers. The "must" might be a wrong word to use in OS as we 
always say "invite" but since this will entail possible massive 
organizational change then it would be good to have all or most of the 
key decision makers in the action space.


The documentation of each OS Sessions will be critical as this will help 
everyone follow the thread of the conversations in the action space.


To give the documentation team adequate time put all outputs together 
and also for the hosts to comment on the encoded outputs - it may be 
best to have a gap between the last OS day of the 3rd batch to the 
convergence session.


Or how do you plan to do the documentation?

I think this is an amazing opportunity both for the company and you 
Christine. WOW!!


Warm regards from Can Tho (Vietnam)

Carms

Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone 

On Friday, October 20, 2017, 04:27, christine koehler via OSList 
 wrote:


Hi Michael

Yes, the sponsor wants projects/initiatives.

 From what you say, I understand that I could have done 3 OS without
action planning and then 1 day with Action space only.
That’s an interesting idea, thanks for sharing !

Cheers from Paris, where we have lovely weather right now, probably
not for long
Have a nice trio to Iceland
Christine
 > Le 19 oct. 2017 à 22:54, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> a écrit :
 >
 > Dear Christine,
 >
 > is it Action/Projects/Initiatives/etc. that the sponsor wants?
 >
 > If so, they should simply invite any and all for Action Planning
or as some of us call it "Action Space".
 >
 > Convergence in the traditional way is more a detour into
statistics, dots and all than going the actionorienting route with
passion and responsibility.
 >
 > In my experience and book it takes exactly 3.5 hours regardless
of how many show up and how many projects are created.
 >
 > And it fits more neatly into "never work harder than you have to".
 >
 > Cheers from Berlin where I am zeroing in on the 5th (Paris was
the first in 2009) European Open Space Learning Exchange  that Kari
and friends are convening in Iceland in November...
 >
 >
 

Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Michael Herman via OSList]

a few thoughts, christine...

1.  i'd not be as interested in prioritizing everything as in sorting and
grouping things that are similar or overlapping.  voting is a quick way to
come up with a small number of attractors around which you can associate
all the other issues.

2.  it may or may not be possible or desirable to have a senior and/or
select group sort everything into clusters of issues and then simply open
some more space around each one of those.

3.  i would not do action planning with each group.  I would give the
proceedings from the first group to everyone.  then i would give the
proceedings from round two to everyone again.  by the time you get the
output from round three, i think you will see significant integration
happening.  it might be possible to sort/group just those issues from the
last round, but if not, the others should mostly fit in somewhere.  if
something from round one disappears by round 3, that probably means
something.

4.  alternatively, it may be that there is an org structure that for now is
in place and going to stay in place.  presumably, since they're staggering
the open space work, they're trying to keep the wheels turning while
reinventing themselves.  so another way to go is to take all of the
proceedings, distributed to all after each round, and do a new set of open
space meetings, where each operating group surveys everything in the
book(s) and claims what it is that they can own and do within their
immediate area and also what they could do with some help.  everything they
can do within their area can start immediately.  all the stuff that wants
to cross silos can be the subject of a new round of open space meetings.
duration of all os meetings proposed here is to be set as appropriate for
that particular issue/area/etc.  some of these silo-crossing issues will
naturally cluster, so you'll still end up with clusters of things to work
on.

5.  it's possible that one piece of work will be to end existing silos and
create new groupings.  maybe this can be done soon/quickly, maybe even in
advance of the first round of os meetings... maybe leaders already know
they want to reorg at the highest level around customer segments rather
than production systems, for instance.  anytihng that is
known/desired/planned already should be made explicit before the opens
pace, of course, as givens.  BUT... if some sort of post-existing-silos
organization is desired/expected but not yet known, they will learn a lot
about what shape(s) would be most helpful if they do #4 and study the
cross-over requests for help.  those represent the new organization trying
to be born.  if they move quickly around those things, they'll just want to
make sure that the old groups don't lose traction on the things they said
they could own as existing groups.

6.  some of this work may fit very well into a framework called enterprise
scrum, which i see as a slightly structured version of ongoing open space.
i have a colleague from france who's now not so far from you, living in
heidelberg.  i'd be glad to connect you if he'd be a help on the ground
there.  or i'd be glad to discuss this with you, as an extension of the
os+agile conversations you and i have had over time.

7.  don't forget the University of Kentucky rules for ongoing open space.
They might be helpful here.  There on my site or google will find you
multiple sources, i think.  Or I can get them for you.

8.  when holding followup meetings, logistically 100 can be a lot easier
than 300... which is to say that if they're going off-site for these
meetings, but they have an onsite space that will hold 100, then there's
nothing wrong with convening follow-on meetings where only the first 100
responders get the seats in the circle... and if many more want to attend a
given session, you'll already have experience of running three in series on
the same theme.

well, that's maybe more than a few thoughts... and i think i've actually
forgotten to mention something(s)... i'll stay tuned...

michael


p.s.   9. and don't forget to keep having fun.  fact is nobody knows what
the best way to go is, except one step at a time.  it sounds like they're
already in open space!  so you just help them stay there... do these three
and see what happens.  what a great situation!

p.p.s  10.  there's no reason the notes from each day can't be posted
somewhere the very next day!  don't let a lot of processing get in the
way... conveners are responsible for typing and posting their notes right
away.  no filtering.  and if they're all in one location, think about
printing them out and posting on the walls in a long hallway... keep the
news in front of everyone and it'll be one long meeting, not three!





--

Michael Herman
Michael Herman Associates
312-280-7838 (mobile)

http://MichaelHerman.com
http://OpenSpaceWorld.org



On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Scott Gassman via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

> Christine,
>
> You have a wonderful oppor

Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Scott Gassman via OSList]

Christine,

You have a wonderful opportunity to continue helping stretch this company.
If in your shoes, I would share findings/outputs/reports with all attendees
from the three days.
Ask them to read them, and identify what's most important and gripping for
the organization to distill and carry forward as most significant change
initiatives.

I would invite all who want to and can attend to a follow-up 3.5 hour
convergence session.
If I could I would ask for most important themes/topics to be discussed and
volunteer
leaders to step-up and move the topics forward.  I would next invite the
leaders, topic leaders.
and scribes to process what's resulted and close in on new strategy. I
would also have
Subject Matter Experts on hand to respond to inquiries. This is the
beginning of what they
want to build.

This likely will require more time, a model process leader and business
owner as a start.

Looking forward to hear future stories.

Scott Gassman

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:21 PM, christine koehler via OSList <
oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> wrote:

>
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
>
> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half
> days of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different
> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is
> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are
> on a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very
> ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there
> will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and
> diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to
> continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new
> organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies,
> hopefully a new management model.
>
> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are
> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects
> that come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be
> able to fund all of them.
> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they
> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to
> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can
> consider other options.
>
> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ?
> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
>
> Christine
>
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Carmela Ariza via OSList]

Hi Christine, Hi Michael 
I like the action space idea, the invite all who cares in addition to the hosts 
or who proposed an agenda. 
I am not sure if postponing the action planning to a later date will be the 
best option as it may dampen the enthusiasm generated by the OS sessions. But 
if someone else has tried this and would say it could work better than having 
it all in one go per OS event, then why not try this too. 
The convergence of ideas in the "action space" must involve the key decision 
makers. The "must" might be a wrong word to use in OS as we always say "invite" 
but since this will entail possible massive organizational change then it would 
be good to have all or most of the key decision makers in the action space. 
The documentation of each OS Sessions will be critical as this will help 
everyone follow the thread of the conversations in the action space. 
To give the documentation team adequate time put all outputs together and also 
for the hosts to comment on the encoded outputs - it may be best to have a gap 
between the last OS day of the 3rd batch to the convergence session. 
Or how do you plan to do the documentation? 
I think this is an amazing opportunity both for the company and you Christine. 
WOW!! 
Warm regards from Can Tho (Vietnam)
Carms
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On Friday, October 20, 2017, 04:27, christine koehler via OSList 
 wrote:

Hi Michael

Yes, the sponsor wants projects/initiatives.

>From what you say, I understand that I could have done 3 OS without action 
>planning and then 1 day with Action space only.
That’s an interesting idea, thanks for sharing !

Cheers from Paris, where we have lovely weather right now, probably not for long
Have a nice trio to Iceland 
Christine 
> Le 19 oct. 2017 à 22:54, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList 
>  a écrit :
> 
> Dear Christine,
> 
> is it Action/Projects/Initiatives/etc. that the sponsor wants?
> 
> If so, they should simply invite any and all for Action Planning or as some 
> of us call it "Action Space".
> 
> Convergence in the traditional way is more a detour into statistics, dots and 
> all than going the actionorienting route with passion and responsibility.
> 
> In my experience and book it takes exactly 3.5 hours regardless of how many 
> show up and how many projects are created.
> 
> And it fits more neatly into "never work harder than you have to".
> 
> Cheers from Berlin where I am zeroing in on the 5th (Paris was the first in 
> 2009) European Open Space Learning Exchange  that Kari and friends are 
> convening in Iceland in November...
> 
> 
> Hugs
> mmp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannw...@gmail.com
> 
> Information on the European Open Space Learning Exchange in Iceland in 
> November here:
> http://www.meine-openspace-praxis.de/OSLEX.pdf
> 
> 
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 455 resident Open Space 
> Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 144 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org
> 
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Chris Corrigan via OSList]

Anyone committed to taking action forward…that’s who I would call.  Have them 
update each other, connect and support AND have a bigger conversations about 
hat they are learning.

Chris


> On Oct 19, 2017, at 2:13 PM, christine koehler 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris
> 
> Would you invite the conveners together with the leadership team ?
> Would it work to be at the same time the one that has passion for a  project 
> and the one that select the priorities in ligne with the reinvention strategy 
> ? 
> 
> Indeed I agree that  the ones who call the conversations are the ones that 
> see something that can contribute to the whole. 
> Thanks for the way you frame it.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 19 oct. 2017 à 21:11, Chris Corrigan > > a écrit :
>> 
>> I’d do the three Open Spaces and then have the conveners of each session 
>> invited to a single follow up session to look over the report and help feed 
>> into the overall reinvention strategy.  This would be based on the idea that 
>> the ones who call conversations are seeing something that can contribute to 
>> the whole
>> 
>> Perhaps a follow up World Cafe or other process, but make sure that the 
>> leadership harnesses the emergent leadership that is activated in the OS.  
>> The people who propose topics may not be the “usual suspects” and their 
>> perspectives will be valuable to support.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, christine koehler via OSList 
>>> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>>> 
>>> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
>>> 
>>> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half 
>>> days of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
>>> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different 
>>> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is 
>>> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
>>> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on 
>>> a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very 
>>> ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there 
>>> will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and 
>>> diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to 
>>> continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new 
>>> organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies, 
>>> hopefully a new management model. 
>>> 
>>> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
>>> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects 
>>> that come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be 
>>> able to fund all of them.
>>> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they 
>>> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to 
>>> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can 
>>> consider other options.
>>> 
>>> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
>>> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? 
>>> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
>>> 
>>> Christine 
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Hi Michael

Yes, the sponsor wants projects/initiatives.

From what you say, I understand that I could have done 3 OS without action 
planning and then 1 day with Action space only.
That’s an interesting idea, thanks for sharing !

Cheers from Paris, where we have lovely weather right now, probably not for long
Have a nice trio to Iceland 
Christine 
> Le 19 oct. 2017 à 22:54, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList 
>  a écrit :
> 
> Dear Christine,
> 
> is it Action/Projects/Initiatives/etc. that the sponsor wants?
> 
> If so, they should simply invite any and all for Action Planning or as some 
> of us call it "Action Space".
> 
> Convergence in the traditional way is more a detour into statistics, dots and 
> all than going the actionorienting route with passion and responsibility.
> 
> In my experience and book it takes exactly 3.5 hours regardless of how many 
> show up and how many projects are created.
> 
> And it fits more neatly into "never work harder than you have to".
> 
> Cheers from Berlin where I am zeroing in on the 5th (Paris was the first in 
> 2009) European Open Space Learning Exchange  that Kari and friends are 
> convening in Iceland in November...
> 
> 
> Hugs
> mmp
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Michael M Pannwitz
> Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
> ++49 - 30-772 8000
> mmpannw...@gmail.com
> 
> Information on the European Open Space Learning Exchange in Iceland in 
> November here:
> http://www.meine-openspace-praxis.de/OSLEX.pdf
> 
> 
> Check out the Open Space World Map presently showing 455 resident Open Space 
> Workers in 76 countries working in a total of 144 countries worldwide
> www.openspaceworldmap.org
> 
> Here you find books and task cards on open space, most in German, some in 
> English, some as ebooks, some multilingual
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Hi Christine 

> I like Chris’ suggestion with one addition. I would invite the conveners and 
> anyone else who cares to attend.

«anyone else who cares» is an interesting concept in this company : they all 
care ! And they also all care a lot about cost ;)  They may come from all over 
the country and for many of them their participation may have a direct impact 
on the turnover
This may give interesting conversations but is not easy to plan with this 
system.


> I’ve frequently found that an unlikely suspect who did not convene a session 
> has caught the passion and  is just the person to take the ideas to the next 
> level. 
> 
> I’m remembering a IT guy in a multinational corporation - he had never been 
> in a leadership role but got so jazzed that he became a “Unified Culture 
> Ambassador”.
> Big hug from a warm Arizona afternoon,
> 
> Christine
> 
> Christine Whitney Sanchez
> Phoenix, AZ, USA • +1.480.882.8281
> 
> 
> On Oct 19, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList 
> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
> wrote:
> 
> I’d do the three Open Spaces and then have the conveners of each session 
> invited to a single follow up session to look over the report and help feed 
> into the overall reinvention strategy.  This would be based on the idea that 
> the ones who call conversations are seeing something that can contribute to 
> the whole
> 
> Perhaps a follow up World Cafe or other process, but make sure that the 
> leadership harnesses the emergent leadership that is activated in the OS.  
> The people who propose topics may not be the “usual suspects” and their 
> perspectives will be valuable to support.
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, christine koehler via OSList 
>> mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>> 
>> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
>> 
>> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half days 
>> of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
>> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different 
>> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is 
>> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
>> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on 
>> a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very 
>> ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there 
>> will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and 
>> diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to 
>> continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new 
>> organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies, 
>> hopefully a new management model. 
>> 
>> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
>> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects that 
>> come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be able 
>> to fund all of them.
>> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they 
>> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to 
>> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can 
>> consider other options.
>> 
>> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
>> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? 
>> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
>> 
>> Christine 
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Hi Chris

Would you invite the conveners together with the leadership team ?
Would it work to be at the same time the one that has passion for a  project 
and the one that select the priorities in ligne with the reinvention strategy ? 

Indeed I agree that  the ones who call the conversations are the ones that see 
something that can contribute to the whole. 
Thanks for the way you frame it.




> Le 19 oct. 2017 à 21:11, Chris Corrigan  a écrit :
> 
> I’d do the three Open Spaces and then have the conveners of each session 
> invited to a single follow up session to look over the report and help feed 
> into the overall reinvention strategy.  This would be based on the idea that 
> the ones who call conversations are seeing something that can contribute to 
> the whole
> 
> Perhaps a follow up World Cafe or other process, but make sure that the 
> leadership harnesses the emergent leadership that is activated in the OS.  
> The people who propose topics may not be the “usual suspects” and their 
> perspectives will be valuable to support.
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, christine koehler via OSList 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>> 
>> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
>> 
>> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half days 
>> of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
>> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different 
>> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is 
>> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
>> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on 
>> a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very 
>> ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there 
>> will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and 
>> diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to 
>> continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new 
>> organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies, 
>> hopefully a new management model. 
>> 
>> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
>> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects that 
>> come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be able 
>> to fund all of them.
>> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they 
>> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to 
>> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can 
>> consider other options.
>> 
>> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
>> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? 
>> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
>> 
>> Christine 
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Hi Dan

No, location is same

They do 3 OST and not one only so that they don’t have to stop operations.


Christine 
> Le 19 oct. 2017 à 21:13, Daniel Mezick via OSList 
>  a écrit :
> 
> I plan to offer a suggestion; but first a question. I am guessing that the 3 
> separate groups are in 3 separate locations. Is this correct?
> 
> On 10/19/17 2:21 PM, christine koehler via OSList wrote:
>> 
>> Dear friends and colleagues,
>> 
>> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
>> 
>> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half days 
>> of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
>> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different 
>> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is 
>> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
>> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on 
>> a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very 
>> ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there 
>> will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and 
>> diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to 
>> continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new 
>> organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies, 
>> hopefully a new management model. 
>> 
>> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
>> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects that 
>> come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be able 
>> to fund all of them.
>> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they 
>> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to 
>> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can 
>> consider other options.
>> 
>> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
>> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? 
>> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
>> 
>> Christine 
>> 
>> 
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Michael M Pannwitz via OSList]

Dear Christine,

is it Action/Projects/Initiatives/etc. that the sponsor wants?

If so, they should simply invite any and all for Action Planning or as 
some of us call it "Action Space".


Convergence in the traditional way is more a detour into statistics, 
dots and all than going the actionorienting route with passion and 
responsibility.


In my experience and book it takes exactly 3.5 hours regardless of how 
many show up and how many projects are created.


And it fits more neatly into "never work harder than you have to".

Cheers from Berlin where I am zeroing in on the 5th (Paris was the first 
in 2009) European Open Space Learning Exchange  that Kari and friends 
are convening in Iceland in November...



Hugs
mmp




Michael M Pannwitz
Draisweg 1, 12209 Berlin, Germany
++49 - 30-772 8000
mmpannw...@gmail.com

Information on the European Open Space Learning Exchange in Iceland in 
November here:

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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Christine Whitney Sanchez via OSList]

Hi Christine,

I like Chris’ suggestion with one addition. I would invite the conveners and 
anyone else who cares to attend. I’ve frequently found that an unlikely suspect 
who did not convene a session has caught the passion and  is just the person to 
take the ideas to the next level. 

I’m remembering a IT guy in a multinational corporation - he had never been in 
a leadership role but got so jazzed that he became a “Unified Culture 
Ambassador”.
Big hug from a warm Arizona afternoon,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez
Phoenix, AZ, USA • +1.480.882.8281


On Oct 19, 2017, at 12:11 PM, Chris Corrigan via OSList 
 wrote:

I’d do the three Open Spaces and then have the conveners of each session 
invited to a single follow up session to look over the report and help feed 
into the overall reinvention strategy.  This would be based on the idea that 
the ones who call conversations are seeing something that can contribute to the 
whole

Perhaps a follow up World Cafe or other process, but make sure that the 
leadership harnesses the emergent leadership that is activated in the OS.  The 
people who propose topics may not be the “usual suspects” and their 
perspectives will be valuable to support.

Chris

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, christine koehler via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear friends and colleagues,
> 
> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
> 
> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half days 
> of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different 
> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is 
> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on a 
> market that is completely changing those days and they have a very ambitious 
> goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there will be 200 
> people more in the company, and they are invited) and diversification. They 
> have begun looking for new markets and hope to continue that with the OS. So 
> their expectations are huge : new organizational models for a new company, 
> new projects, new synergies, hopefully a new management model. 
> 
> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects that 
> come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be able to 
> fund all of them.
> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they 
> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to 
> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can 
> consider other options.
> 
> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? 
> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
> 
> Christine 
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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

I plan to offer a suggestion; but first a question. I am guessing that 
the 3 separate groups are in 3 separate locations. Is this correct?



On 10/19/17 2:21 PM, christine koehler via OSList wrote:


Dear friends and colleagues,

May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?

I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a 
half days of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with 
different participants. The whole company has been invited and almost 
everyone is coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They 
are on a market that is completely changing those days and they have a 
very ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take 
place, there will be 200 people more in the company, and they are 
invited) and diversification. They have begun looking for new markets 
and hope to continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge 
: new organizational models for a new company, new projects, new 
synergies, hopefully a new management model.


The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the 
projects that come out of the OS as they expect many projects and 
probably won't be able to fund all of them.
They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment 
they want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's 
not easy to change the model. But I am confident that with a few 
conversations they can consider other options.


I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
How would you design it ? and who would you invite ?
I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion

Christine


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Re: [OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[Chris Corrigan via OSList]

I’d do the three Open Spaces and then have the conveners of each session 
invited to a single follow up session to look over the report and help feed 
into the overall reinvention strategy.  This would be based on the idea that 
the ones who call conversations are seeing something that can contribute to the 
whole

Perhaps a follow up World Cafe or other process, but make sure that the 
leadership harnesses the emergent leadership that is activated in the OS.  The 
people who propose topics may not be the “usual suspects” and their 
perspectives will be valuable to support.

Chris

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 11:21 AM, christine koehler via OSList 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear friends and colleagues,
> 
> May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?
> 
> I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half days 
> of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
> The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different 
> participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is 
> coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
> The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on a 
> market that is completely changing those days and they have a very ambitious 
> goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there will be 200 
> people more in the company, and they are invited) and diversification. They 
> have begun looking for new markets and hope to continue that with the OS. So 
> their expectations are huge : new organizational models for a new company, 
> new projects, new synergies, hopefully a new management model. 
> 
> The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are 
> already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects that 
> come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be able to 
> fund all of them.
> They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they 
> want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to 
> change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can 
> consider other options.
> 
> I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
> How would you design it ? and who would you invite ? 
> I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion
> 
> Christine 
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[OSList] what convergence after 3 OS events ?

[christine koehler via OSList]

Dear friends and colleagues,

May I ask for advice, ideas and/or  stories ?

I am preparing for a company (owned by its employees)  3 one and a half
days of OS that will host around 300 participants each.
The 3 events will take place one after the other, but each with different
participants. The whole company has been invited and almost everyone is
coming. Only the CEO and the GM will attend the 3 of them.
The theme is the same for the 3 events: re-invent the company.  They are on
a market that is completely changing those days and they have a very
ambitious goal with acquisitions (at the time the OS will take place, there
will be 200 people more in the company, and they are invited) and
diversification. They have begun looking for new markets and hope to
continue that with the OS. So their expectations are huge : new
organizational models for a new company, new projects, new synergies,
hopefully a new management model.

The leadership team is following very carefully the event but they are
already facing overload. They expect to have to prioritize the projects
that come out of the OS as they expect many projects and probably won't be
able to fund all of them.
They are aware they should invent a new model but right at the moment they
want to follow up everything, which, of course, shows that it's not easy to
change the model. But I am confident that with a few conversations they can
consider other options.

I suggested to organize one day convergence after those 3 events.
How would you design it ? and who would you invite ?
I would love  to get ideas from you or what you did in a similar occasion

Christine
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