The Genuine Contact Organization (GCO) is an organization that is highly successful in getting its work done, maintaining high staff morale, fulfilling its purpose, achieving its vision, and creating emergent conditions and actions for new visions and their achievement. The GCO gets its business done in an effective and efficient way, achieving maximum benefit from the intellectual and intuitive knowledge of the individuals involved and of the collective. No two GCO's look alike. There is no model to follow to develop as a GCO because all organizations are organic and cannot fit into someone else's template.

There are however, key focal points that are attended to, a holistic framework to operate within, principled leadership, and a different way of managing. Use is made of a variety of tools and techniques that may already be part of the skills and resources of the organization including participatory meeting methodologies such as Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, Cross Cultural Conflict Resolution, Appreciative Inquiry, Future Search and World Café as well as support such as Holistic Leadership Development, and other resources like the OpenSpace-Online® Real-Time Conference System for conducting on-line Open Space Technology meetings. Within the GCO, a comprehensive blended approach within a holistic framework enables the organization to choose what is right for it in every situation, relying on skills, knowledge and capacity developed "in-house" and leading its own ongoing change from within.

All people within a GCO have the opportunity to achieve mastery of their work, both the regular tasks/work and individual/collective performance challenges. This mastery includes accessing intellectual and intuitive knowledge and the wisdom for applying it. The people have an environment that supports their individual health and balance, resulting in less sick time off and better employee retention.

The GCO is an organization that is alive, aware and chooses to nurture and strengthen its life for optimal performance. It allows the creation of the space needed for optimal accessing of its potential, possibilities, creativity, innovations, imagination, inspiration, insights, solutions, resolution, commitment, and focused action. It works from its strengths. It identifies and removes barriers. It sustains health and balance for the benefit of the organization and the people within it. If you have ever participated in an Open Space Technology meeting, it is easier to imagine the GCO because it mirrors the same high performance that is experienced during an Open Space Technology meeting, but on a daily basis rather than just at an event.

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How does an Organization Develop as a GCO?