Is your calendar of meetings, events and other activities overwhelming your bottom- and middle-third members? Is morale taking a nose dive because top-third members keep adding more and more mandatory events? Get a grip on things, immediately.
Great expense and effort is invested in discouraging student leaders from drinking at many leadership conferences. But, is it actually working? Would allowing moderated, responsible consumption actually serve the teaching mission of a conference more realistically? “What if” we tried a different approach. It’s working in social services right now. Could it work for us?
You’ve worked your butt off to make this leadership conference the best it can be. You’ve worried over every detail. Then, as you watch the attendees, you see your bottom-third. They don’t want to be there, and they are happy to let you know about it. Question is, will you confront their negativity? And if so, do you do it individually or say something from the podium in front of everyone?
