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emerson:stone-soup [2025/04/14 02:35] – [Points Currently Lost] post-mortems naptasticemerson:stone-soup [2025/04/29 17:25] (current) – [Points Currently Lost] Volunteer assignments must be centrally managed. naptastic
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     * The word "team" also gets used in places; I'd rather use "team" to describe a group responsible for a given service.     * The word "team" also gets used in places; I'd rather use "team" to describe a group responsible for a given service.
   * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, the icky...   * We need to grapple with the bougie, the out-of-touch, the icky...
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 +I have been trying to avoid this for months, but I can't see any way around it: Volunteer effort and assignments need to be managed centrally. 
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 +That doesn't mean people can't have initiative and start their own things, but... (just kind of thinking out loud here) 
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 +If the rule is, everybody has at most two callings, and the first one has to be something the church needs, and it doesn't have to be something the person wants to do. The "callings people want" are secondary callings. Doing the work of the church has to be the priority. 
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 +Teams and committees should not be allowed to ask people for help directly. They should have to ask for volunteer time from a central committee. 
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 +I can't see another way to structure a volunteer organization that doesn't result in abuse of volunteers and misappropriation of volunteer time. (Don't suggest tracking hours. That doesn't work.)
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 We need to elevate the quality of our worship programming. The music is great but the music program has some constraints we need to lift, and the rest of the programming... we'll talk about it. But basically, we need more barn-burners. Sunday services have to be good or a church will fail no matter what else it's doing. We need to elevate the quality of our worship programming. The music is great but the music program has some constraints we need to lift, and the rest of the programming... we'll talk about it. But basically, we need more barn-burners. Sunday services have to be good or a church will fail no matter what else it's doing.
  
-We need a full-time music director. We also need at least four part-time musicians. (That includes Ariel.) Where possible, we should try to hire instrumentalists who can also be section leaders. Emerson is **heavy** into instrumental music; we need to leverage that.+Julia needs to be full-time. We also need at least four part-time musicians. (That includes Ariel.) Where possible, we should try to hire instrumentalists who can also be section leaders. Emerson is **heavy** into instrumental music; we need to leverage that.
  
 Proposal: **We need to pay our music director enough that this can be her only job.** Proposal: **We need to pay our music director enough that this can be her only job.**
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 [[emerson:stone-soup:acoustics|Acoustic Treatment]] [[emerson:stone-soup:acoustics|Acoustic Treatment]]
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-Policy recommendation: Storage space is a resource around which we need to set boundaries. It's great that Emerson Players is self-funded, but how much storage unit space did you not have to pay for because we subsidized it by misusing our buildings? (Ok that sounds resentful, sorry) 
  
 [[emerson:stone-soup:control-room|Control Room]] - Convert one the offices upstairs in Westwood hall into an A/V booth. [[emerson:stone-soup:control-room|Control Room]] - Convert one the offices upstairs in Westwood hall into an A/V booth.
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