Health facts
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Last summer, I tried to review some facts that could be more meaningful than pure « numbers » about french Rotaract health. It leads me to the conclusion that… well, wait, I let you do the process by yourself.
Imagine you are Dr House, looking at the patient called « French Rotaract ». Here’s the data that you have :
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Some facts from patient’s file :
- No volunteer for national coordination presidency in 2007-2008
- Year 2008-2009, a candidate did show up only at the last minute. It seemed he had to be pushed really hard, too hard because he finally resigned in the middle of the year (*)
- 2007 national convention was cancelled ; records says the organizing club has been chosen only 12 month before the date, which is way too short compared to previous editions (it is usually planned 2 years ahead)
- at national coordination, there is a list of closing clubs that is incremented almost every 2 month
(*) Disclaimer : only my humble interpretation, as i’ve been involved in that story
Recuring impressions gathered from interviews with « the patient » (= the rotaractors) :
- « each project is hardly completed. Every year it seems some easy things are no more easy »
(national convention, national social projects, newsletter, collecting fees, etc.) - « we hardly find people to serve on Rotaract management. Apart from leading, things like making a regular newsletter became hard. We hardly find one guy, bearing everything on his shoulder, or working hard to have some other rotaractors committing »
(to compare, in some countries, for writing one article you get three volunteers in a snap) - « we have no clear statement wether we are ok or not… how can we know it ? »
(interpretation by contraposition : if we were ok… we would know it, wouldn’t we ?) - « most of the time we do things because « we used to do that way ». When asked if these are traditions, or if it has a real meaning, « We always did that way » seems a recurring answer
(interpretation : I think it is a collective behaviour that organisations tend to adopt when they don’t feel safe about their integrity ; it is a collective response to a feeling of weakness, you prefer to not risk to loose something when you think you won’t gain anything)
Some non factual comments of your « assistants » after observing « the patient » :
- clubs do less common projects than they used to ; nation-wide processes gets erratic (see previous articles)
=> it seems that information do not flow very well along the « patient’s body » - clubs rarely call others for help now, which means to me they do not think about the other rotaractors as a source of help
=> it seems their overall unity gets weaker - because of the turn-over, patient barely knows how it was « before », and the past is told more like urban legend than like facts
=> it seems patient has little memory
Now, Doctor, considering the symptoms, what would you say about the state of your patient ?
22 mai, 2009 | Classé Dans Rotaract Renaissance
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