ANST - Proposition: a Kingdom Business Meeting

[Lori Campbell]

Here's another (slightly long) thought on this subject,

I agree with Talen that Kingdom-wide business meetings should deal 
with Peerage Circles, Fighting Order meetings, GOofS meetings, and 
possibly even chances for Kingdom Officers to meet with their 
Regional or Local officers.  The length of time needed for these 
meetings to be productive means those attending two or more won't have 
time for much else.  Also, at this kind of meeting, Peers and Kingdom 
Officers wouldn't be available to teach all those Officer, A&S, 
Marshallate, etc. classes.   

For many years, the seneschallate and treasury have held classes for 
local officers, as attending a class is required before these 
officers can be Warranted and "official."  If it weren't for the 
amount of work involved, and the high number of warm, qualified 
bodies needed to teach, I'd say that this would be a good requirement 
for every major group office. (Sorry, personal opinion, please don't 
throw things at me!) 

I really like the idea of Collegiums specifically for officer 
training, marshallate training, etc.. I've worked with 
Kingdom/Regional Officers who gave up most of their own personal 
time at events to hold individual classes for people who couldn't 
make the official scheduled class.  It doesn't take much of this 
before events become all work and no fun for these officers.

To be honest, I think the responsibility for office-related 
classes must rest primarily on the Regional and deputy 
kingdom officers for a couple of reasons:  1) our Kingdom Officers 
are *very* busy people.  They have the Kingdom to run (a full time 
office in itself) in addition to 5 regions and @45 local groups to 
oversee.  2) only official kingdom deputies have the most up-to-date 
information on requirements and reporting. 

Here's another idea: maybe the kingdom or each region could host its 
own collegium for classes of this type, with the full cooperation and 
assistance of the Kingdom and Regional officers.  This would also 
provide an opportunity for classes on other things needed for our 
organization to run smoothly, like: marshalling, autocratting, 
feastocratting, etc. 

In re-reading what I've said, I guess I could sum it all up by 
saying:  I think we need separate meetings for Kingdom business and 
for Officer/participant training.  Definitely *not* a minimal effort 
way to deal with the problem :-).  The quality of meeting/training 
time would be better, but how likely is it that these kinds of 
meetings would continue and become regularly attended with the 
amount of effort and time they entail?  Would the interest and 
attendance in the "officers collegium" meetings rate such effort? 

- Kat

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Katrionna Heather MacLochlainn
Barony of Wiesenfeuer, Northern Region, Ansteorra
Currently Northern Regional Chronicler
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lcampbel at ossm.edu
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