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Though my time as president is over, there’s still lots of work left. Hire an operations manager, to lighten the burden on our over-taxed volunteers. I’m still involved […] Bob Zimmerman asked a good question in his recent comment on Congregational functions. In addition to the five seasonal teams (fall, winter, spring, summer, and HHD), there are a number of support functions that most or all teams will need. These include: Communications Team: Outlook editor, WebRebs, List Mayvens, DB Reb, press release writer, and publicity […] When the Governance Structure Task Force presented our work, we included co-presidents on the Values-based Model, but not in the Seasonal Model. There’s nothing that says we shouldn’t consider co-presidents in the Seasonal Model, too. Does having co-presidents make the job easier, or more complicated, or both? How do the duties get divided: should there be […] Some people have asked me various what-if questions. Four of the most common: What if a seasonal team doesn’t want to hold a given event (from the list in my previous post)? One of the most important things to do over the next few weeks is to find people to lead the five seasonal teams. Each seasonal team will have, roughly, 3-5 people on it, including the team lead. The people on the seasonal teams don’t do everything, but they are responsible for everything getting done or […] Some members have asked me some questions about the near-term future, things like the timing for a new president to take office and how we’ll continue to involve the members and what we’ll do about operations. A few thoughts, with, I expect more to come. First, though, a preamble. My term expires on December 31. What […] We spoke, at the November meeting, of understanding where we are, and how we got here, through data, through reviewing reasons why people have left and why our numbers have fallen. Unfortunately, we do not have most of the concrete data that could provide quantitative analyses of the past few years’ departures, much less so […] We met. We talked. We decided. Let’s do. The Board met on Tuesday (November 20). Other then tachlis (nuts-and-bolts) stuff and paying attention to each other as people, we had one topic for discussion: what now. Marian is hard at work to get the minutes written up, and we expect to have those published during the […] |
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