Committee Members Resignations

[Oscar]

Just at the moment with the issues going, I don't see the problems relating to specialised skills - you can always bring in consultants for that..

Consultants can work well at the tactical level ( I was one for years) but there is a need for strategic oversight. Consultants are often blamed for 'having found what the organisation wanted them to find', when the truth is more that they were told (and paid) to solve a specific problem - which they may have done to greater or lesser degree. However, often in solving the problem laid before them, the Law of Unintended Consequences rears its ugly head through lack of informed holistic strategic planning and the result is not beneficial to the organisation. The Board needs to do - and be capable of doing - the strategic planning, and that requires both sufficient expertise in the actual subject area to know what is beneficial or not plus informed input from other areas that may be affected as to any flow-on effects that need to be considered.

 

 

[turboplanner]

damkia's post #42, shows the skill areas he was looking for.

 

Making sure the paid employees have these skills is the key, and they are all capable of producing monthly reports

 

The General manager is capable of reviewing those monthly reports, reviewing them, and combining that into a monthly report.

 

In fact many companies have weekly reports.

 

Now before the sound of spluttering comes out of Canberra, we are talking hypothetically, once the reporting is electronic and in abbreviated key indicator format.

 

The General manager can set the scope and objective for any Consultant so there is value for money.

 

The ones that get out of control are frequently those where a lazy manager doesn't want to work himself, and just says something like "just fix this marketing system" etc.

 

Strategic Planning sounds important, but really means:

 

1. What do we need to do regarding this issue?

 

2. How will we go about doing it?

 

3. What time will we need to get it finished by?

 

I'm sure everyone reading this could have a go at that.

 

 

[Oscar]

Strategic Planning sounds important, but really means:1. What do we need to do regarding this issue?

 

2. How will we go about doing it?

 

3. What time will we need to get it finished by?

Yes, that's all part of strategic planning but you've missed a critical bit, which is:

 

4. How will what we intend to do affect the enterprise?

 

It is extremely important that actions to resolve one situation do not introduce other situations of either unknown or adverse effect. We have just seen, for instance, the effect on finances of the cessation of registrations (which was not a move selected by RAA management, but the point is pretty clear). RAA operation is a system: see http://www.thefreedictionary.com/system , and it is necessary that actions being contemplated are done so with consideration of the system as a whole. Without this level of thought, one almost begs the law of unintended consequences ( see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequences ) to do its worst. If ever there was an ironic acronym, it is LUC...

 

 

[cherk]

but I bet plenty of people here would question their wife if several hundred thousand dollars disappeared out of the bank every year and she just said it was "expenses".

So .......you met my EX-wife eh !