The idea is like, Hey, you said hotels. What do you want to get into? And unlike in triage where the question is, what do you need, this is actually about opening up space for a conversation. The way you'd prompt it might be a little bit more open ended. If there's a natural pause in conversation, I'll be like, okay, we're over five minutes on this one. Again, can I get a fist to five? So like show of hands, a fist or a zero is like, please kill me. Can you move on? No more."
What exactly is OS coffee? It’s a specific meeting structure we use to explore topics related to our operating system (a.k.a. our OS). But OS coffee isn’t meant to be a formal, note-taking, let’s-finally-get-to-agreement-on-X kind of deal; rather, it’s about making space for different subjects to emerge and to do some shared sensemaking. In fact, it’s so casual that it’s less like a meeting and more like a gathering.
In this caffeinated episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans break down how to OS coffee, including:
- How to keep OS coffee conversations informal yet impactful
- How to ground the gathering in a “Yes, and…” headspace
- How to stand one up inside your own system without it feeling like mandatory fun
- How to use default agreements to create new group norms
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