How much do we tolerate low commitment & lackadaisical efforts, and when do we insist on high standards? This is possibly more complicated when working with volunteers.
How can an organisation be healthy when the people involved are making half hearted efforts?
A friend of mine says you must always trust in people's good intentions.
It's not that I don't, it's just that people showing up to do things that have a significance for all of eternity . . . . and they are unprepared or ill prepared or not even sure if they are leading . . . .
We have been entrusted with much.
Entrusting it to others, intact and with integrity, is vital.
A lack of integrity, a lack of preparation, suggests a lack of understanding at best, and apathy at worst.
Is it a lack of integrity?
How much of it could be cultural?
How much of it is that people often do not know who they are, why they are here or what they ought to be on about?
"The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good- natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.
`Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.
`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'
said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat."
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
How can an organisation be healthy when the people involved are making half hearted efforts?
- Is it an issue of motivation?
- Is it an issue of lack of vision?
- Is it poor expectations, poor communication or poor training?
A friend of mine says you must always trust in people's good intentions.
It's not that I don't, it's just that people showing up to do things that have a significance for all of eternity . . . . and they are unprepared or ill prepared or not even sure if they are leading . . . .
We have been entrusted with much.
Entrusting it to others, intact and with integrity, is vital.
A lack of integrity, a lack of preparation, suggests a lack of understanding at best, and apathy at worst.
Is it a lack of integrity?
How much of it could be cultural?
How much of it is that people often do not know who they are, why they are here or what they ought to be on about?
"The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good- natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.`Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider.
`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,'
said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat."
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
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