Sabin D

[Sabin D]

Eli,

Personally, I’ve found Slack useful for real-time, shared planning among disparately-located people. For example, I can see it being useful for facilitating questions in real-time from new LSP facilitators, running Q&A or virtual information sharing sessions. It also allows for team management and file sharing. It has been most useful in assisting collaboration among geographically-dispersed teams. I’ve also seen/used it coupled with group video conferencing like hangouts, Skype, etc.

Personally, I don’t see it as a replacement for the forums, but another channel to facilitate communication in a more synchronous way.

[Sabin D]

I’m not aware of one, but count me as interested. If there isn’t one already, what’s the interest in creating one?

[Sabin D]

That sounds awesome! Count me in.

[Sabin D]

Here are some thoughts, for what they’re worth:

This is a challenging situation. If you’re going to do shared model building, I would give the participants the task of creating models that represent a shared understanding of leadership and commitment. Provide scenarios in which the model building is the means by which they express the attributes the client is looking for: leadership, commitment, group dynamics, communal interactions.

I worry about the effectiveness of using LSP to create an environment in which the participants are being observed. That feels more like LSP being used as the means by which a sociological experiment is administered, rather than a tool through which joint problem solving happens. One of the things about LSP is its ability to generate open dialog and shared confidence. Does it override those effects by observing the meta interactions of the participants? I feel like it might.

Lastly, I think you’ll need a couple more kits. The lack of resources is more likely to inhibit interactions and creativity than it is to contribute to shared resources, I think. That is, unless it’s made clear up front that sharing resources is a likely scenario. Then on the other hand, each participant may not have enough resources to fully explore their own portions of the group model.

So those are my personal thoughts. I’m interested in hearing how it comes out!

Good luck,
Sabin Densmore

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