Association Membership Step-by-Step
Sorry for the extended break. I had meant to take a little bit of a break through a particularly busy time, but it ended up being a little longer than I had anticipated. One of my projects during this break, however, is to continue to work on a book idea that I have had for [...]
To Church Leaders: Read This Concerning Your Meetings
I came across an article entitled “On Process: Finding Ways to Make Progress as a Community” by Neil de Koning that focused on what Christians should strive after in their meetings. It is so good that I will not make any comment, except to highlight the article’s main points. Instead, just go read it. On [...]
When Statutory Law Spoils All the Fun…
In an ideal world, all associations would employ both a professional parliamentarian and an attorney. As I have written about elsewhere, parliamentarians and attorneys take different approaches and work toward different goals. An attorney’s goal is compliance with statutory law; a parliamentarian’s goal are productive, efficient, and fair meetings and organizational structures. This, of course, [...]
In Case You Have Always Wondered About Committee of the Whole…
This “Nerditorial” has a great explanation. The bottom line is that a Committee of the Whole takes the entire assembly and turns it into one big committee. This means that everyone can speak as many times as they wish, but the final decision arrived at during the deliberation of the Committee of the Whole is [...]
Ruling: The Chairman CANNOT Vote Twice
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a local election where the temporary chairman had voted twice in order to break the tie and to push his favorite candidate into the lead. The Connecticut State Democratic Party ruled that it was not legal for the chairman to vote twice, and ordered another election: The [...]
How Should Churches Deal with Problem Members?
All organizations struggle with how exactly to deal with “problem” members—those who always seem to oppose change no matter how badly it may be needed; those who “debate” by threatening and complaining; and, most frustratingly, those who command just enough votes to impose their will upon the organization. For churches, this kind of situation only [...]