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Originally Posted by HoltDan
Shortly after our regional, one of the parents got upset about how student duties/assignments/etc. were managed at the tournament.
We're a new team (2nd year) and were no doubt unorganized. But it's not my intent to get into details and blame here...
Anybody know of any guidelines/recommendations for handling general team disputes like this? I haven't seen anything in the FIRST/FRC manuals or via searches.
Thanks,
Dan
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So were they upset about how little students were doing? We ran into the same problem this year, where our coach was micromanaging what seemed to be everything. I'm sure it didn't help that I was pushing the envelope a bit too much as well, as I joined our team with leadership skills that I have learned in 4-H.
One thing that I did was to have a sit down meeting with 2 of our head (college) senior mentors (who also partially felt the same way I did), the coach, and my mom. I felt that I was able to get how I was feeling (but a bit nicer) out in the 'open' with our coach.
I encourage you to have a meeting with the youth involved in the incident along with their parents to support them, a (student) mentor, and the coaches to talk about how the incident can be peacefully resolved and how to ensure it won't happen again.
Hope this helps!
-David