Apply the five pillars to your own organisation.
The afternoon hinge module of the OTSP open workshop. Each participant runs the methodology in miniature on their own organisation: pick a pillar, audit the gap, trace the source, sketch one commitment. Personal worksheet, peer-tested.
OTSP In Action is the workshop's distinctive move. The morning teaches the methodology; this module gives participants their first hands-on experience of running it on their own organisation. Without it, the day stays at the level of teaching. With it, participants have their first felt experience of the methodology applied to their own situation.
The module has four steps. Pick: from the morning's five pillar sessions, pick the pillar most material for the participant's own organisation. Audit: a quick Honest Audit on the chosen pillar, surfacing where the lived reality diverges from the stated position. Trace: trace the gap backwards to its upstream source. Commit: sketch one operating-practice or consistency commitment with owner, change, standard, and 90-day check.
The 75-minute session has four phases. Framing (10 min). Individual silent work on the worksheet (30 min). Peer pairs across organisations testing each other's work (25 min). Whole-group share back focused on what surprised the participants (10 min).
The canvas is a personal worksheet, one per participant. The structure mirrors the diagnostic-then-commitment shape that runs through every pillar workshop, condensed to a single page. The peer pair structure provides the testing function that group facilitation provides in the pillar workshops.
Each participant has run the OTSP methodology in miniature on their own organisation: picked a pillar, audited the gap, traced the upstream source, and sketched a commitment with owner, change, standard, and 90-day check. They leave with their first piece of OTSP work, applied to their own situation.
Each person picks the OTSP pillar that feels most material for their own organisation, then runs the method in miniature: name an honest gap, trace it to its upstream source, and draft one realistic commitment. The discipline throughout is specificity, so keep pushing people from general statements to where, when, and with whom.
The morning has been teaching, and the rest of the session is application. Each person picks one pillar, runs the method in miniature on their own organisation, and sketches a commitment. Get the worksheets out.
Silent, individual work. People pick their pillar, then write the honest gap where the lived reality diverges from the stated position, in three to five specific sentences drawn from their own experience. They trace the gap back to what the organisation is doing internally that produces it, whether a hiring choice, a reward system, a leadership behaviour, a cultural norm, or a strategic ambiguity. Then they draft one operating-practice or consistency commitment with an owner, what is changing, the new standard, and how they would know in ninety days. Roughly five minutes to pick, fifteen for the gap, ten for the source, and five for the commitment.
Pair people up across organisations. Each person reads their worksheet to their partner, whose job is to test it: is the gap specific enough, is the upstream source genuinely upstream, and is the commitment something you could do on Monday? Refine in dialogue. The peer who tests the work cannot make assumptions and has to ask the questions a stranger would ask, which is the real asset here.
Whole group. What surprised you, what was easier than expected, and what was harder. Then bridge into the next session.
Use OTSP In Action when a group has met the five pillars and is ready to apply them. Each person runs the methodology in miniature on their own organisation: pick a pillar, audit the gap, trace its source, and sketch one commitment.
Using this tool with a skilled facilitator means that discussions are focused, time is used efficiently, and the group moves toward consensus, making the session productive and impactful.
