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Getting Everyone Involved
A training day on how to use the Open Space process to engage your learners
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control this event has now been postponed.
| Date | Location | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 13 Feb 2007 | Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL | C1437/02/07 |
| Fee: £245 (includes lunch, tea and coffee and support materials) | ||
Background & Aims
This one-day training session will expand your leadership and management skills and confidence. You will work on different ways of engaging with staff and learners; approaches that are efficient, effective and energising and used in the most innovative and successful of organisations. If you are a manager, team leader or considering moving into a leadership role don’t miss this opportunity.
The sessions are devised and facilitated by Annette Zera and follow on from the highly successful “Getting on Brilliantly” training day and book. Annette was Principal of Tower Hamlets College and led the team that created one of the most successful colleges in the country. For the past three years she has been working as a facilitator of large group meetings, trainer and coach with government departments, local authorities, colleges and the corporate and voluntary sectors.
Healthy and balanced organisations are ones where leadership is courageous, the vision for the future clear and everyone can contribute to improving results.
“There must be better ways of finding out what learners think than the termly questionnaire”? College Principal
There is. The Open Space process is a brilliant way of finding out what matters to large numbers of people and getting them to work together constructively. Open Space meetings are energetic, focused and productive.
The government White Paper on Learning and Skills urges all providers to fi nd ways of engaging learners. This one-day course devised and facilitated by Annette Zera will provide you with an innovative tool to use with large groups of learners. Annette trained in Open Space facilitation in the USA and Sweden and used the process with students when she was Principal of Tower Hamlets College. She now facilitates events with groups ranging from senior civil servants to refugees.
Participants on this one-day course will:
 | experience how the Open Space process works |
| consider appropriate conditions for an Open Space event in their workplace |
| learn everything they need to know to run a participative and interactive event for up to 50 people |
| think through the options for managing the outcomes of Open Space events |
‘Getting everyone involved’ will be useful to you if you:
| want to know more about what your learners or other service users think about your organisation |
| want their interests to be more of an influence on your organisation |
| want to get learners or service users to take more responsibility for change |
| want them to feel they have a real stake in the organisation |
| want to demonstrate to external bodies that you involve your customers |
Does Open Space always work?
Yes. Open Space has been tried and tested around the world in the public,
corporate and voluntary sectors.
Who should come?
Anyone who wants to find out what people think about their service so that
they can respond to their needs. The day uses learners as the case study but the
process is equally applicable to any situation where you want to involve users
in the organisation.
What will I get out of it?
The skills and confidence to engage learners in a radically different way,
an active companion to the termly questionnaire. A handbook setting out all you
will need to run an Open Space meeting for up to 50 learners accompanies the
course.
See also: Getting the best out of line management
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