Re: AUGD: Request for your thoughts - leadership transitions
Re: AUGD: Request for your thoughts - leadership transitions
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Request for your thoughts - leadership transitions
- From: Rick Curran <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:42:44 -0500
Hi Sandy,
I think we have all had this kind of problem. Being a board member or officer was never going to be forever. Finding someone to take your place so you can step down is never easy. If you have a small group, it is even harder. You have to find someone to take your job and groom them until they are ready to take over. So, maybe they are not as good as you are or the newsletter isn't as good as you did. Give them a chance otherwise your last newsletter will be your obit. Then they will complain that you died and you were expected to do refreshments and a class next month. How insensitive you were just up and dying on them. It happens. If you aren't there to run the swap meet (like you have done for the last umpteen years). You will also find out how badly you did everything right up to the car crash or heart attack. I kid you not.
Who says you have to have a monthly newsletter? The newsletter's main function is to remind members that there is a meeting coming up. Because of the cost of a printed newsletter, I expect you all are doing an electronic newsletter of some kind. A quick flyer every month and a newsletter every other or third month may stall burn out. Put on the flyer scheduled activities/classes plus info on the monthly meeting. Another idea, put your newsletter on your web site in a blog format and send out your reminder flyer before meetings. Blogs aren't hard and they usually don't cost anything. You can make it up as you have things to put in it. Link to other blog stories. "Here is an article I found on xyz that was interesting." Don't type the article in, just link it.
"We are having a hard time getting presenters!" Do a monthly random drawing. "John is it for next month." That means he is responsible for the program. He doesn't have to do the program (and sometimes we wish he wouldn't - he has a snore factor of 12 on a 1-10 scale) just arrange for it. Even the new bees can come up with an interesting program once a year. This way it isn't the same old gal with her tired spreadsheet how too's. Sometimes a "Didjaknow..." meeting can be fun. If you use this key combo, this happens. "There is a neat feature in Safari that lets you..." By moving the job around, you might learn something.
Don't break up your group, you will never bring it back again.
Rick Curran
CMUG Myrtle Beach, SC
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From: Saundra I Foderick <email@hidden>
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Cc: augd <email@hidden>
Sent: Tue, Nov 11, 2014 3:01 am
Subject: AUGD: Request for your thoughts - leadership transitions
I recently received a letter from a long-time group leader and a
hoping that members of our list can offer guidance,
She has been writing her group's newsletter for almost two decades and
has served in multiple leadership positions. Her question was, "What
can a group do when the long-time leaders who have kept a group alive
move on, burn out, get older, or simply find themselves unable to
serve?" She wondered if the only practical answer might be to end the
group.
Each time I sat down to write her back, I found that I was offering
the standard vanilla advice, not really answers that would help her
group weather a challenging situation.
So, I am hoping that groups who have faced these challenges can offer
concrete steps to help - action items that can revive a group.
Thanks,
Sandy Foderick
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