Re: Dealing with a common problem - your help please
Re: Dealing with a common problem - your help please
- Subject: Re: Dealing with a common problem - your help please
- From: Jim Foster <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 23:32:22 -0400
I can sympathize with you Chris.
Our club has long had a problem of having too few Executives. Well,
this year I really pulled out all the plugs in terms of smoozing up to
individuals to get them to agree to wear one of the "missing" Executive
titles. Problem is that I now have a full list of Executives but a
large number of the new people are not working out. They either are
failing to do what they said they would do, or they are not
self-starters and are waiting for someone, like ME, to tell them
exactly what I want them to do. In my experience, there's only a
limited amount of stuff that I can TELL people to do.
For example, one of these positions is Programs Manager. That's the
function in our club which is intended to plan our meeting agendae for
the upcoming year, make sure we have contingency plans if a scheduled
speaker can't make it, and also try to research what sorts of
"programs" our membership really want. We appointed a highly energetic
person who seem motivated but whose only problem is that they live a
very long distance from our club's locale so this person cannot make it
out to either our Exec meetings or our membership meetings. I entered
this arrangement skeptical but willing to try it out based on the
apparent enthusiasm of the person, but the bottom line is that after
six months this person has not accomplished anything, I am still the
person everyone is looking to for each meeting's agenda, and it is now
going to take some tact to get other people working on this area
without creating an embarrassing situation for the first individual. It
was actually better to have NO ONE in the position than to have someone
in the position who either can't or won't fire on all cylinders.
I frankly do not have the total solution. All I can say is that once
the Executive Team gets larger than about 4 or 5 people, the President
can easily be 100% occupied just with getting the rest of the Exec's to
perform and supporting their efforts. In too many cases, though, you
see clubs like ours where the President tries to do that during the
month but then ends up being the meeting MC, and meeting agenda maker,
and far too often the guest speaker all wrapped up in a bow-tie!
Good luck, and I look forward to others' input.
J. L. (Jim) Foster
President / BBS Admin
Macintosh Users East [MaUsE]
Courtice, Ontario, Canada
Work Email: email@hidden
Home Email: email@hidden
Work Phone: (905) 644-4975
Home Phone: (905) 433-0777
On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Chris Kiltz wrote:
So, how do you get people involved on board?
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