Open Agenda Conferences

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=50 BGCOLOR="#009966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Open Agenda Conferences</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=165 BGCOLOR="#AAAAAA" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="132" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 35 ><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="21"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id269.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Open Agenda/Youth Search Conference, Pha"><U><B><IMG SRC="008151d0.gif" border=0 width="21" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="20"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="35" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="20" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Accomplishments of the MCCC"><U><B><IMG SRC="00d0d1d0.gif" border=0 width="13" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="27"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> If you have any additional questions that you would like answered, please send e-mail to: <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#333366" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:crpetersen@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:crpetersen@yahoo.com"><U><B><IMG SRC="0be38510.gif" border=0 width="56" height="81" ALT="Send E-Mail" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></FONT></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=430 BGCOLOR="#AAAAAA" TEXT="#080000"> <div> An Open Agenda Conference is a unique experience.  It is perfectly suited for multiple agencies, entire communities, or a single large or merging corporations or agencies.</div> <bR> <div> The conference can include everyone who is a part of a particular corporation or agency, or even a very small community.  It can bring together an entire organization, such as a school district, company, or business, or most of the employees in a single division, encourage and allow them to discover issues and solutions, and create action plans with accountability. </div> <div> It can also search out specific key individuals from a larger group.  This search process identifies key groups (stake holders), then key individuals within that group.  (<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#800000" FACE="Souvenir Lt BT" >Locating and engaging stake holders may be an important exercise for the over all collaboration, service, or corporate system that you are be involved with.)</FONT>  The process allows for the identification of key individuals that may not normally be considered (by those outside the group)  principal leaders within the group.  This process identifies those who are seen from the outside to be the most influential members of a particular group, and then allows for those individuals to identify those they consider influential and key.</div> <bR> <div> The conference itself does not have a preset agenda; however, it can have a preset theme.  It allows the agenda to be set by the participants according to interest and energy.  The process has been compared to a potluck dinner, providing both opportunity to put forth issues and concerns, and helping to mold and implement a strategic plan for growth and amelioration.  This concept requires a leap of faith and can produce, and has produced, remarkable results.</div> <bR> <div> For an example of this process, see <A HREF="id269.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Open Agenda/Youth Search Conference, Pha"><U>Open Agenda/Youth Search Conference, Phases</U></A>.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>