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Open Space in action: From Chaos to Creative: Performance Development in a VUCA World

I'm always amazed and affirmed at how to Open Space Technology process allows for good to great discussion about topics in tension, this one being: How to deal with problematic performance appraisals.

 

What a great group of open-minded HR people at MISHRM in Grand Rapids, MI!

 

See the attached flipcharts for discussion notes. I will respond to generated questions, creating a FAQ, and will be sharing resources, including references from BetaCodex.org, the 2012 book, Beyond Performance Management, by Jeremy Hope and Steve Player

 

This group understood the flow of Open Space (Technology) immediately and plunged right into the topic of the session of raising questions and discussing how to move beyond industrial age and 70's behaviorist thinking to transition to the modern 21st century of achievement and performance.

 

Context is here: A History of Performance Appraisals: Letting Go to Power New Culture

reveln.com/a-history-of-performance-appraisals-letting-go...

 

Description:

This presentation provides a context for performance appraisals, ratings and reviews as very old ideas compared to organizational leadership pioneers and what's next. Performance management, defined in the 1970s, is rooted in scientific management. It is possible to acknowledge history, realize its impact on our business systems, and let go to embrace new strategies.

 

Open Space Technology is attributed to the work of Harrison Owen

 

With higher ed, with faculty, with professional coaches, with the horses, with professional women, with change management practitioners and consultants, with clients, Open Space has many applications, OST

 

If you'd like to learn more about this agenda-less type process organized around a key theme, an Open Space handout is available here: reveln.com/open-space-on-speed-and-social-business-video-...

 

Find out more via REVELN.com ~ Deb

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