Dear friends and colleagues, This note is for you if -if you would like to improve the harvest and actions from an OST meeting. -if you measure the success of an OST meeting two or more months after the OST meeting looking at the difference that the meeting made
I have a workshop happening tomorrow Wednesday March 7th from 9am to 12 noon EST that I believe is of value to you. Check out Planning for Highly Effective Meetings <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/planning-for-highly-effective-meetings-tickets-43619827077>. No, I don't alter the format of the OST itself. I am a self confessed purist about the dance of OST in its pure form. However, it is possible to work with OST to generate more ROI. If you cannot attend in person, the recording is valuable for a self study. Registration is required to get the recording. I created a particular kind of planning meeting originally to help my clients get the most out of the participatory meeting method Open Space Technology. I was facilitating these large whole system meetings of hundreds of people in one meeting. At the closing of the meeting, people would be so excited, so happy to have participated and great accolades were made. For some meeting facilitators, this is enough to declare it a good meeting. Not for me. I want to know what happens two months and more after such a big investment in a meeting. Did it make enough difference? >From this vantage point of maximizing the harvest for the good of the organization and its people, I found the importance of the planning meeting, how it was done, and what was talked about was critical in achieving the most gain.This planning meeting is not about logistics...although we do provide a handout about logistics. There are topics much more important to discuss in the planning meeting. AND, the planning meeting must include the senior most leader of the organization as part of creating the best outcomes. I wrote a blog that might interest you about the participants benefiting from the right to make an informed choice about attending the meeting. I titled the blog 'Grandma, if it moves, don't pick it up!' <http://www.dalarinternational.com/informed-choice/> in genuine contact, Birgitt -- Birgitt Williams Closing the Gap Between Potential and Results Services http://www.dalarinternational.com/services/ Leadership & Organizational Development Training, http:// www.dalarinternational.com/services/training/ Author, President & Senior Consultant of Dalar International Consultancy, Inc. Co-founder: Genuine Contact program Co-founder of the Extraordinary Leadership Network http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com Co-owner of the Genuine Contact Co-owners Group Ltd. http://www.genuinecontact.net *Supporting leadership development for leading in a culture requiring agility and flexibility in a performance environment of constant change.* PO Box 19373, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 27619 phone: 1-919-522-7750
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