Open Space Technology (EasyRead Comfort Edition)Harrison Owen presents a hands-on, step-by-step manual for putting on an open space technology workshop. In OST workshops, participants basically set and facilitate the agenda with some guidance from a facilitator. Here, the book's examples are particularly handy. Owen suggests conference duration, agenda and techniques including how to set up a meeting, invite participants, prepare the logistics and meeting site, facilitate activities and more. While these workshops generally involve hundreds of people, you can also put on an OST event with as few as five. If you want to read gripping business philosophy, look elsewhere - this is a practical how-to manual, a task it accomplishes quite wellgetAbstract.comrecommends this informative guided tour of the OST process to those who want to know how, because they already know why. |
Contents
Open Space Technology? | 1 |
Preparation | 19 |
Proceedings and the Electronic Connection | 64 |
Personal Preparation for Open Space | 75 |
Site Preparation | 88 |
Creating Time and Space | 105 |
Holding Space and Time | 143 |
Movement to Action | 174 |
FollowUp | 214 |
Unexpected Gifts Leadership Performance Peace | 223 |
What Next? | 243 |
Additional Resources | 253 |
About the Author | 256 |
About BerrettKoehler Publishers | 258 |
Be Connected | 260 |
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Endings and New Beginnings | 196 |
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Open Space Technology: A User's Guide (16pt Large Print Edition) Harrison H. Owen No preview available - 2009 |
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