If you get good at the moves of a retro or an action meeting or an OS coffee, you can do the other two much more easily. You'll have like transferable skills, but you have to remember what is the tone and what is the focus of each setting so that you can facilitate in that flavor. It's sort of like crepes like are you know, there's their savory and their sweet. Like if you know how to make. Why do you talk to me about crepes right now? I am so hungry. All I want to do is eat crepes. Okay. We I have something to say about retros. Say it. Here's the thing.
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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