At the Leading Change conference today, the organizers were fretting this morning about a sit down lunch. We’re in Open Space, so the room is kind of chaotic. We weren’t sure how this would happen, so we carved a half hour out of the agenda, and let people know in the morning that we would need them to be out of the way while the room was getting set up.
But this is Open Space, and of course it was also about leading change. Eleven o’clock came around and the groups broke up and trickled back into the main room. Someone asked if they could help set up the room others joined in and in 7 minutes, we had transformed the room from a chaotic circle to a sit down lunch, complete with linen.
And then, lunch completed, we reversed the whole process and got back to work for action planning.
And to cap it off, the lunch was sponsored by The Co-operators. How cool is that?
