Thank you Birgitt, thanks all for your input! It makes much sense to me Birgitt and you point on some key concepts including the purpose of the voting - to collect information of where the collective energy is strongest at this moment in time. I agree that the instructions are important.
I actually invite participants to put their dot either at a whole report or mark a specific aspect in a report. The dot still counts for the report as a whole but also gives additional information that can be taken into account. We had our planning meeting for the OST I mentioned and the group went deep to find a powerful theme focusing on their core task re supporting rights for minorities all over Sweden. The OST will last from 11-16.30 (physical) + 9-12 online one week later (using Zoom + Miro) in that online action planning part of the OST I plan to re-open space, have two brief sessions for action planning and a closing. Next steps will be a 1st followup in August and another to trace and reflect on impacts, early december. My two sponsors are taking a deeper OST learning journey with me in combination with this assignment. Reading the GC workbook, being part of the whole process incl setting the room up (yes I did offer them to facilitate too, but that’ll be next step!), meetings for reflecting with me. Next step may well be to spread OST more to people working in this area in Sweden! Wohoo Thomas Hämta Outlook för iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ Från: OSList <oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org> för Birgitt Williams via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Skickat: Monday, May 9, 2022 9:56:32 PM Till: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> Kopia: Birgitt Williams <birg...@dalarinternational.com>; Michael M Pannwitz <mmpannw...@gmail.com> Ämne: Re: [OSList] Asynchronous voting Hi Michael and Thomas, I hope that someone on this list has a good answer for the best software to use for the voting process. In the 1990's when I had the opportunity to work with Harrison a few times at OST meetings, he taught me about the importance of voting as a way to show in priority order what the people at the event felt the most energy for from the many topics that had arisen. At the time, even way back then, he used a software that was excellent for the purpose. I forget its name and don't know if it is still in use. A very important part of this voting process lies in the instructions and to this day we still teach the importance of these instructions in Working with Open Space Technology (a module of the Genuine Contact program). The instruction, as per Harrison, is NOT to say to people to vote what they think is important. Instead, the instruction is to say to the people to vote based on what they feel energy for. The thinking behind this is that if the organization wants to move something forward, it needs to work with the flow of what people have energy for, rather than some abstract concept of what is perceived as important. In other words, what people have energy for is what we want to capture. In the years since that time, I have used this form of developing collective awareness of what there is energy for in the collective, despite the many many good ideas that were put forward. I still do this by topic, instead of by every action step that has been identified, although some people have expressed a desire to be able to vote only on certain actions, and not on the whole topic. In one important meeting, everyone in the room new that there was one VERY IMPORTANT topic to the company. Yet, no one voted for it as they didn't have energy for it...they were fatigued by endless discussions about it and had a long history of it not moving forward. In the debrief meeting with the sponsors after the OST meeting, the sponsors expressed their understanding of the lack of energy for the topic, although they found this disappointing. They agreed to stay on track with supporting those topics that people had expressed energy for and not making a big deal about no votes for their IMPORTANT topic, admitting they hadn't voted for it either. When we did a follow up six months later, many of the hot energy topics had already been completed. We took another vote for energy of the topics that were identified in that initial OST meeting to find what they now had energy for. And not so surprisingly, after all the progress they had made on other things, the IMPORTANT topic now received many votes as the energy of the collective moved toward it. in genuine contact, Birgitt [Picture] Birgitt Williams Senior consultant-author-mentor to leaders and consultants Specialist in organizational and systemic transformation, leadership development, and the power of nourishing a culture of leadership. www.dalarinternational.com<http://www.dalarinternational.com> >> Learn More & Register<http://www.dalarinternational.com/upcoming-workshops/> >> for any of our upcoming workshops here. [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wd6--YZbvJ_kr3h4szckQg0o3rrWJuPSS_b9xz2abnydck7uAz9D0E1IpOmC3MjSWVpjtTK0E] PO Box 19373, Raleigh, NC, USA 27613 Phone: 01-919-522-7750 Like us on Facebook<https://dalarinternational.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35ed818c946a88ba7344da05f&id=6677c35b38&e=e7zyhHfiqG> Connect on LinkedIn<https://dalarinternational.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=35ed818c946a88ba7344da05f&id=c26173f86b&e=e7zyhHfiqG> On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 6:08 AM Michael M Pannwitz via OSList <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org<mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org>> wrote: Dear Thomas, usually, the folks at the action planning part of an os event will post their projects at the beginning of the action planning part of the open space event. They are the champions for acting on the projects that have heart and meaning for them. Against that background, what is the purpose of the "voting process" before the action planning? Who needs the information on "what people feel most engaged to continue working on"? My experience with action planning after an os event (one week and two weeks later) is that the focusing on action projects appears to be more grounded AND that folks that were not at the os event itself appear at the action planning part... my assumption has been, that folks talk to others that did not attend the os event and sometimes "recruit" those that need to be part of the projects, that they champion. At several occasions folks that had been at the os event and then also took part in action planning told me that the extra person they "recruited" for the action planning had been very skeptical about the ost event and had felt no need to be part of it. Have a great day in Kungsbacka on your Stiefmütterchen Weg mmp Am 08.05.2022 um 20:44 schrieb Thomas Herrmann via OSList: > Dear friends in Open Space > > In one months time I will facilitate a one day OST with about 100 > participants. Probably reports will be written on flipcharts and the > documentation will be delivered as a PDF the next day. > > One week later we are going to have an online meeting to do action > plans. We are considering having a voting process in the time between > the two events to get information on what people feel most engaged to > continue working on. 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