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everyone wants a return to community
BUT We seem to have forgotten the social skills that made community work Like “being polite”
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Management Support Team
I find it interesting, the old MC delegated a lot of authority to the Management Support Team. The management support team are the workers We have 4 voting committee positions and 7 management support team roles I actually think this is a very good idea, the people who do the work make the decisions about…
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our official and latest T&C
– a lot of decision-making is delegated to the “management support team” i.e the people who do the actual work – that several of the proposition has proven to be impractical, like returning account balances to zero when people leave – “administrative fees” have never worked, we end up billing inactive accounts – clause 18,…
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On the perfect committee
A committee is best when people barely know it exists.Not so good when people obey and acclaim it.Worse when they despise it. But of a good committee. who talks little,when their work is done,their aim fulfilled, they (the people) will say: ‘We did it ourselves.’ Misquoted from Lao-tse (c. 565 B.C.) So:
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What are the powers and duties of the MC
Having searched the constitution and surveyed the act I see no scope for mandates or orders in our constitution?No powers only duties President 22 Meetings of the management committee (9) The president is to preside as chairperson at a managementcommittee meeting.34 3) At each general meeting—(a) the president is to preside as chairperson; and(b) if…
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Appropriate technology
I have experience working with small groups where they consider what business platform to adopt– Teams– Slack– Trello– Blogs My advice is DON’T Especially in the beginning, the best platform is the one that everyone knows how to use– Face to Face conversation– Email– Messenger– FB groups later as we discover efficiencies we might branch…
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How to work together in small groups of volunteers ?
I am thinking today about how to work together in small groups of volunteers Specifically in the emerging BrisLETS MC The first point for me is that we are volunteers so “directives” “orders” and coercion are a shallow bluff. If we want someone’s cooperation we need to invite it. It’s much “easier” when you hold…
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I don’t think that our Committee members should be paid UNITS.
Because: We are a Not For Profit and it is really unusual to pay committee members. We are NOT BP If committee members are unpaid volunteers they have a lot of legal protection under Queensland law It is a very bad look when traders are selling soap at 1UNIT and Committee members are billing the…