17-12-2013, 05:11 PM
I don't really check noticeboard that much although I have to admit I'm a bit surprised that infighting on noticeboard seems to have continued 4 months after AGM. Personally I think it must be tiring and unhealthy to hold grudges and grievances for that long.
From my understanding most of the directors are unpaid and do it on a voluntary basis. I'm unsure how everyone else feels but if I was in position where I was a director I wouldn't be happy to spend lots of my limited free time trying to help chess and then getting abuse for things that may even not be relevant to my remit and work I actually do. While communication and accountability can be useful it should be a two way process and there should be a cost/benefit analysis involved in communication. For example if you spend let's say an hour a week communicating and thanks to getting people involved you can get 3 people working an hour a week on average then it's a win/win situation. If on the other hand they just get interrogated it's probably harmful for chess since it diverts them from working for chess.
This is just in general but I'd also like to say that making mistakes isn't a crime. Everyone does them (even me!) and it's perfectly normal if you do anything. Important thing isn't to make no mistakes but to learn from them and improve in future. Indeed good team work involves experienced people sharing their mistakes so that others should learn from them. As long as someone tries their best they shouldn't be blamed even if things don't go as intended.
I'll add that I think CS will only work well if they have support from membership. Something that could be food for thought is that I've seen lots of threads with complaints/attacks etc but I've yet to see a thread with roles that CS needs help with. This means that if I hypothetically wanted to help out rather than seeing what needs done and what I can do I would presumably have to approach each director individually and ask if they need help and if they are so inclined and have something to do they could then suggest it to me and then I can judge if it's within my capabilities/availability and if so accept. Note that I'm not volunteering but you can see that process of getting members involved could be streamlined.
I think that once concept of "them" and "us" is removed it should help and breaking down barriers and factions is first step. It's even possible that when people meet each other on same side their old enemy may turn out to be a decent guy when they get to know them.
From my understanding most of the directors are unpaid and do it on a voluntary basis. I'm unsure how everyone else feels but if I was in position where I was a director I wouldn't be happy to spend lots of my limited free time trying to help chess and then getting abuse for things that may even not be relevant to my remit and work I actually do. While communication and accountability can be useful it should be a two way process and there should be a cost/benefit analysis involved in communication. For example if you spend let's say an hour a week communicating and thanks to getting people involved you can get 3 people working an hour a week on average then it's a win/win situation. If on the other hand they just get interrogated it's probably harmful for chess since it diverts them from working for chess.
This is just in general but I'd also like to say that making mistakes isn't a crime. Everyone does them (even me!) and it's perfectly normal if you do anything. Important thing isn't to make no mistakes but to learn from them and improve in future. Indeed good team work involves experienced people sharing their mistakes so that others should learn from them. As long as someone tries their best they shouldn't be blamed even if things don't go as intended.
I'll add that I think CS will only work well if they have support from membership. Something that could be food for thought is that I've seen lots of threads with complaints/attacks etc but I've yet to see a thread with roles that CS needs help with. This means that if I hypothetically wanted to help out rather than seeing what needs done and what I can do I would presumably have to approach each director individually and ask if they need help and if they are so inclined and have something to do they could then suggest it to me and then I can judge if it's within my capabilities/availability and if so accept. Note that I'm not volunteering but you can see that process of getting members involved could be streamlined.
I think that once concept of "them" and "us" is removed it should help and breaking down barriers and factions is first step. It's even possible that when people meet each other on same side their old enemy may turn out to be a decent guy when they get to know them.