[Ansteorra] Which brings us to...

[willow taylor]

Dear Lady Elysia,

Getting people to come to things is always a problem. It is hard for
people to find the time. When we organized what we are doing is very
important but for the volunteer it is side issue. Often it is necessary
to remind people about the meeting the night before. You need to be
careful. Call them up and make sure they have a ride. A lot of people
don't come to an activity because it is to hard for them to drive
themselves. I often offer to get people for the first meeting. Often
people misplace their information on where the site is or your number.
When you call them and ask if they got directions that sometimes overcome
that problem. Put people together.  We often do  these activities for the
social aspect of the event. When we put people together we make the
activity more entertaining. People in the SCA are sometimes shy when it
comes down to meeting new people. Try to reassure individuals that you
will be there to help them interact. Introducing as many people as
possible before the meeting is good.

These are a few things my mother,Lady Elizabeth of Bramblebush taught me
about working with teams of volunteers.

Willow de Wisp

On Tue, 14 May 2002 11:15:48 -0400 "Rhodes-walden, Jennifer"
<Jennifer.Rhodes-walden at usa.xerox.com> writes:
> I have to agree with the statement that people sometimes find it 'too
> much
> like work.' Having made an attempt to start a thespian group and
> getting
> precisely nowhere - for instance, I announced a meeting a good two
> weeks in
> advance and not a single person showed up. Only one person had the
> common
> courtesy to let me know she could not make it. A few have told me
> they'd
> LIKE to do it, but I've yet to see those people. One lady was kind
> enough to
> explain her delay, for which I thank her, but the rest...
>
> If you will pardon my candidness, this doesn't exactly encourage
> someone to
> organize anything, your Grace. I have to admit, I'm feeling
> extremely
> frustrated... and it leads me to wonder if it's worth my time to try
> to do
> anything new if this is the result. I do realize this is a bad
> attitude, but
> still... perhaps this is the feeling shared by others.
>
> Any advice on how to combat this?
>
> Elysia
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan [mailto:catmafia at swbell.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:09 PM
> To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Which brings us to...
>
>
>
> >I've several different theories from "people are just too busy
> nowadays"
> >to the loss-of-community-mindedness theories.  I suppose it's
> anyone's
> >guess and even the "experts" don't agree.
> >
> >--Perronnelle
>
> Other aspects of it have to do with the 'time saving modern
> convieniences'
> that seem to create more work.  Also looking at the number of
> different
> things people commit to that take up their time, as well as the
> number of
> activities competing for ones time.  The author of 'Ishmael'
> addresses many
> of these points in his works.  Thus the topic a bit ago about there
> being
> 'too many events'.
>
> We were recently trying to come up with a time to hold a revel
> locally and
> it was nigh on impossible to find a weekend that didn't compete with
> something else.  The only times when we were able to find gaps in
> the
> schedule in the region were filled in by wars in other kingdoms.
>
> Susan
>
>
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