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Evolution
at Work:
A Personal
Journey
and Public
Invitation to
Open Space
by
Michael Herman
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Questions to:
mherman@
globalchicago.net
or
312-280-7838
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| Where and Why to Open Space |
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Open Space IS APPROPRIATE for:
- Planning and completing special projects,
with or without formally organizing a special project team;
- Resolving cross-functional questions, with
or without formally organizing a cross-functional team or task
force;
- Design and development projects, related
to new products, services, processes, customers, standards, or
other strategic change or improvement projects;
- Exploring and addressing a range of cultural
issues, including diversity, learning, support, orientation,
quality, and the like;
- Rapid response to business surprises, whether
to seize an opportunity or pick up the pieces and get back on
track;
- Creating strategic plans that everybody understands
and cares about accomplishing and...
- Staying on track with strategic check-ins
that ensure that the details of the plan are still appropriate
and still moving toward successful execution.
Open Space yields IMMEDIATE BENEFITS, including:
- Experiential, Breakthrough Learning
- Appropriate Structure and Control
- Open Communication and a Genuine Sense of
Community
- High Play, High Creativity, High Efficiency,
High Productivity
- Shared Leadership and Personal Responsibility
- Inspired Performance and Growth from Within
- Elimination of barriers that get in the way
of doing work quickly, with excellence and pride
Open Space IS NOT MAGIC, benefits can evaporate
when:
- Leader(s) believe they already know the answer(s)
and are looking for ways to sell or impose those ideas on the
rest of the organization;
- Leader(s) believe that they are the only
ones responsible for, or really necessary for, the organization
to do its best work;
- Leader(s) are seeking the appearance of participation,
but are unwilling or unable to deal openly and directly with
high passion or concern, increasing complexity, real diversity
of people or opinions, and/or the urgent need to make decisions
and take action.
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| Evolution at Work: A
Personal Journey and Public Invitation to Open Space, by Michael
Herman (www.michaelherman.com) |
| © Copyright 1998-2000 Michael
Herman. All Rights Reserved. Please do not reprint or distribute
without permission and full attribution, including web address
and copyright notice. Permission will be granted gladly if you'll
just say what you'd like to copy and where you'd like to share
it. [email protected] |
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