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Re: changing the regs, Thanks
Richard Ickler (ICKLERR@DELPHI.COM)
Sat, 31 Dec 1994 19:03:28 -0500
Susan Ganther <susan@EMAIL.UNC.EDU> wrote:
Anyone have any ideas of a humane way to get this guy out of the way? We
don't dare promote him to a position where he needs to be depended on,
because he has a history of making promises to help with events and such
and then backing out of the committment. Has anyone else on the net had
to do this before?
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Susan,
If you think he really wants a face-saving way out, you might try a variation
on what our troop did with our last Scoutmaster. He was a nice guy but
totally ineffectual and did not have any respect from the kids. He also was
in the situation where he really didn't want the job anymore but couldn't come
out and say so. Finally at a committee meeting the committee chair asked him
point-blank if he was ready to "retire". He put it in such a way that it
didn't really sound like "you're fired" or "we want you out" but rather "it
sounds like you are tired of doing the job". The rest of the committee then
chimed in with lots of comments about how, after two years he probably was
burned out and would like to move to a less stressful position. It was not a
direct confrontation but put him in a position where he had to either say he
really wanted to continue or else had an opportunity to gracefully agree that
he was ready to quit. The key to a strategy like this is to have it come from
somebody the SM respects and in a fashion which is not confrontational but
rather gives him a good face-saving reason to leave and lets him agree.
Good luck, that is a real difficult situation.
Richard Ickler icklerr@delphi.com
Scoutmaster, Troop 14 icklerr@corp.macom.com
Long Beach, CA
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