Coffee is a signal that like you could bring a beverage. You can do this at home. If you want to have a finance coffee, a automotive coffee, it doesn't matter. It's the same format no matter what you do. And I think the format itself is so open ended compared to what people are used to when they go to a meeting. That was really what where it sprang from and then we just slapped our operating system concept on the front end.
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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