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[Michael Yutzy <myutzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

wow now theres a development for you. As I see it and have seen done in
a business environment would go something like this in this situation. A
Governing Council is convened and members elected and put into place,
the Reloco Teams (teams would appoint one member to act as a
representative) and would have a place on the counsel so that each teams
voice is heard. 
Then they would act similar to a lesion and facilitator's of the
Councils decisions, getting the information to the teams and overseeing
that everything works correctly and the teams feel that they are
involved and have a voice in the council. This would also streamline
procedures and lessen confusion between the Counsel, Teams and members.
Each team would know who to talk to to voice the op pinions or ideals,
the Council would be made aware of these concerns or ideals through the
Reloco Team representative on the council. The Team representative would
then provide information directly to their teams.  

1: To function properly as a group there needs to be strong leadership
and chain of command (who do you go to when you have a problem or
question) and clear direction that is to be taken to address the
situation, follow-ups to complete the cycle, Oh and did I mention
"planning" i.e. events, changes, elections and so forth in advanced to
assure the process is correct and functional. 

2: There needs to be a clear path that members have to express
themselves, thus the need for Team leads, to assure that members
concerns are being addressed. (Chain of Command)

3: Culpability: knowing where to lay the blame when the ball is dropped,
no finger pointing and no he said she said bull-crap. So that when
something breaks or is not completed, knowing the Who, What, When and
Where things went wrong will help correct the problem soon and faster
and set the groundwork to help prevent that situation from happing again
and where more work or detail needs to be done. 

WOW wasn't that fun and easy?    :-)

Michael Yutzy 
Creative Webtec


http://creativewebtec.com
myutzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 13:56 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I was looking at historical information about the Ohio loco team in
> launchpad. It looks like at one point (in 2007) it was decided that the
> group would be governed by a council.  It looks like we've somewhat
> strayed from that at this point to dispersed reloco teams, thanks to
> paultag's handiwork :)
> 
> I think that has been a very useful/great development, but now I'm
> wondering if the council structure still matters?  And how do reloco
> leads fit into the council sructure?  Are they defacto council members
> now?
> 
> I couldn't find any historical information about the role of the team
> contact, so I kind of view that as the position created by paultag,
> and embodied by his work over the past year or so. I wonder if we
> need/want a strong lead/executive or if a move back to a council would
> be better? Figuring all of this out is particularly important in light
> of the current election.
> 
> Gilbert
> 
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