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Originally Posted by Ilovepineapples
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There are lots of ways to help your area move to districts.
One of them isn't using a bogus CD account to create a passive aggressive thread that has a superficially laudable intention, but is actually used to winge about not getting to what you want to do, and to attempt to "turn someone in".
Sit down with whoever you need to meet with and talk.
- Ask them to write down any complaints they (or anyone else) have about you (use actual paper).
- You write down any complaints you have about them (and about anyone they represent).
- Bring those lists to your meeting.
- Do not show them to each other, but instead tear them up in front of each other and toss them into the trash.
- Get down to work.
- Start with small, short assignments.
- After establishing a good rapport with each other, after successfully completing (together) the several small assignments, and after becoming a team instead of adversaries; start working (together) on bigger, longer-term projects.
Nothing will get better so long as people are glaring at each other (or sniping at each other on CD) instead of talking to each other.
Along the way, younger folks (like college students) might be surprised to notice (when they participate in the nitty-gritty, stupifyingly boring, detailed planning necessary to prepare for and implement something like an FRC District) that the District implementation plans extend past their expected graduation dates.
If Minnesota college students today are like Kentucky college students were, they scatter to the four corners of the Earth after they graduate. That isn't something that can be ignored by anyone involved in putting a sustainable District organization in place.
Blake