[MR] FW: site liason was Re: controversial questions

[Geffrei Maudelyene]

I am still willing if such is needed, The person closest ,might be the one
needed. I am just over an hour from the site. I do have much more free timr
than most.
Geffrei
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McEllistrem
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 1:25 PM
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Subject: [MR] site liason was Re: controversial questions



I think Geffrei volunteered for that in a previous post but I would be
willing as well.

Rebecca
--- On Sun, 4/19/09, chagankhulan at clan-whitewing.org
<chagankhulan at clan-whitewing.org> wrote:

> From: chagankhulan at clan-whitewing.org <chagankhulan at clan-whitewing.org>
> Subject: Re: [MR] controversial questions
> To: "Becky McEllistrem" <bmcellis at yahoo.com>
> Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
> Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 11:48 AM
> Some experience grist for the mill.
> Just my 2 Tugriks worth.  I have found
> that the representative of the site tends to seek out the
> person from the
> group using the site that they have worked with most
> often.  In most cases
> they really don't care which one is in charge - they just
> know when they
> talk to "george" the problem gets resolved.  Having a
> local rep is not a
> bad idea at all but it should be someone that the site reps
> are
> comfortable with.  It helps if the group using the
> site is aware of who
> this person is as well, especially in the case of out of
> town groups using
> a site.  Possibly this individual should be called a
> Mediator or Site
> Liasion rather than a local rep.  The end result is a
> site staff that's
> comfy with things, a group that is comfy with the planning
> and outcome 
> and the simple knowledge that if a problem arises we go get
> "George, the
> Mediator".
> This begs the question - how many folks are willing to be
> 'George, The
> Mediator'?
> 
>   Good planning will alleviate more issues than
> anything else.  Good
> communication is part of good planning.
> 
> Chagan
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > After much reading I've found that most psychologists
> say that
> >
> > fear turns into anger and anger turns into hate.
> >
> > (Way too much free time when I was laid off years
> ago.)
> >
> > So I understand that when I ask a controversial
> question that it could
> > stir up anger.  The anger typically comes from
> the fear that I have
> > brought up a valid reason to stop a change from
> happening as there is no
> > real solution to the problem I present. However I
> insist on bringing up
> > the question as I think it's important to be prepared
> for a perfectly
> > valid possibility with ideas rather than bury our
> heads in the sand and
> > pretend it couldn't possibly happened just because it
> hasn't.
> >
> > I thought I had a solution to the problem with the
> idea of a local deputy
> > when Logan reminded us that a local deputy isn't a
> guarantee of not losing
> > a site either.  This is true.  Maybe a
> better solution would be to have
> > someone like Master Nikulai, who has a strong
> reputation as a solid
> > experienced autocrat become the liaison for permanent
> event sites.  Master
> > Nikulai is a hugely experienced autocrat who has taken
> on last minute
> > event projects more times than I can count and
> continues to be extremely
> > popular with most people that know him. Maybe that
> would be a better idea.
> >
> > And I still like the polling idea.  Gathers lots
> of opinions fairly
> > quickly and if anyone challenges a change later, the
> Crown has solid
> > documentation for their change on paper to show any
> challengers.  It
> > "covers their butts" on paper so to speak.
> >
> >
> > Food for thought and I'm not really expecting a
> response.
> >
> > Rebecca
> >
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