Preparing for #ResponsiveCoffee

Brian Schildt
#ResponsiveOrg Copenhagen
2 min readNov 20, 2014

The #wolweek is going on and it encouraged me to write a short story about one of the things I’ve been tossing around with the last few weeks.

A few weeks ago I met with Martin Risgaard, to discuss how the #ResponsiveOrg movement could lift of in Denmark, Copenhagen — it wasn’t that hard to agree we needed to see it happen, but I was a bit uncertain about the concept and what to expect, asking Martin who to learn from the answer was prompt.

A connected world

Soon I was connected with Simon Terry and Luke Grange in a online meeting to learn about their work and experiences in Australia, they have been doing the #Responsive events in a while, and were happy to share their experiences. After discussing #Responsive- Coffee, -beer, -breakfast… Martin and I decided to go with a #ResponsiveCoffee as the first event.

After the meeting Simon posted a tweet about it

and the very same day I was connected to Kenneth Mikkelsen, thought leader on Leadership in Denmark who wanted to join right away. Linked with Kenneth on Linkedin showed we already had close connections… a truly connected world from Denmark to Australia and back again.

Planing the event

Ready to take the next step I met Martin at the Microsoft Next conference in Copenhagen and settled for a date for the first #ResponsiveCoffee in Copenhagen, and a decent centrally coffee place was chosen

As proposed by Ashley Adams in her guide How to run a ResponsiveCoffee meetup . Meetup.com surves the purpose as administrative tool for the meetup — So now it is published and you can find the event on Meetup.com

Step 2 in Ashleys guide says “Don’t over think it” — but trying hard to keep it simple I still do not know what to expect….

What to expect from a #ResponsiveCoffee

I am delighted and humble that someone shows interest, but also curious about what exactly to expect, and what the Change Agents expectations are…

As a personal preperation I’ve looked at the #ResponsiveOrg slidedeck

www.slideshare.net/responsiveorg/the-responsive-organisation-a-framework-for-changing-how-your-organisation-works

And Luke Grange’s hack — which is faboulus #RODS hack of slide 12

And Simon Terry giving the elevator pitch with the #RODS for Responsive Management

http://youtu.be/_8JhldvGU6s

More activites for Copenhagen

I wrote a short something about #ResponsiveOrg Copenhagen in Danish

And just had to start #hackingslide12

#HackingSlide12 from TheResponsiveOrg

See the mockup here

Added: 5 december 2014
Do you wnat to now how it went? — read the write-up here

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Brian Schildt
#ResponsiveOrg Copenhagen

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