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The success of an organization is highly dependent on its ability to adapt to changes in the needs of its membership. Some needs are clearly written on the wall, and some are more from the intuition of the organizations leadership. Sometimes an organization needs to follow trends that can be deduced from past information, and other times, split decisions need to be made as a result of unforeseen events. As a board member, you will be expected to not only identify trends and guide the WGA in the direction that our membership dictates, but you will also be expected to quickly identify situations that could be detrimental to the organization, or even embrace ones that may benefit but would be missed out on if quick action is not taken. How confident are you in your ability to adapt, not only yourself to the task of being a board member, but also the organization as a whole? Are their any particular situations that you would like to share about your ability to adapt? Finally, do you have any ideas for how the WGA could adapt and stay strong in Wisconsin for another 15 years?
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How confident are you in your ability to adapt, not only yourself to the task of being a board member, but also the organization as a whole?
I don’t think this necessarily just applies to being a board member on the WGA. It also applies to life and work outside of the hobbies you have volunteered for. Just like when life throws you a curve ball and all of a sudden you have an unexpected bill to pay, you revamp your budget to be able incorporate that curve ball and hit a home run in the end. Whether revamping your budget means cutting back on other expeditures, taking out a loan, or negotiating cost, you adapted. You had to adapt and rather quickly most times.
If your position at work gets restructured and you have to learn new accounts, a new skill, or work with new people, you adapt. You adapt by either learning those new things or you adapt by seeking out other possibilities in or outside of that company.
After being on the board for two years, I have had to adapt to many different situations as they arose. And with many of those situations I didn’t have a lot of experience on how to handle them, but I learned very quickly. And when you keep the success of the organization as a whole in the forefront of your mind and what the outcome should be, things will work out in the end.
You can just sit back and complain and say woe is me or you can step up and do something about the situation that will win you the game in the end.
Are their any particular situations that you would like to share about your ability to adapt?
In the above statement, I have covered some personal situations I have been involved in. I will also say that being a board member on the WGA is very fluid and we need to adapt to challenges that arise rather quickly whether its the website being down or we ran out of orange juice at a pancake breakfast. We have to take the oranges and make orange juice.
Finally, do you have any ideas for how the WGA could adapt and stay strong in Wisconsin for another 15 years?
I personally hope it’s more than 15 years. The WGA has a good following and the key thing is listening to the membership’s requests. We are in an age of instant media gratification, ease of use of apps and mobile friendly websites, as well as social media. The WGA could benefit on working towards a solid plan to incorporate all of these things for all of its members whether they choose to be mobile or just want to go on the website.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
I believe, that I am personally very adaptable. I see a board position as being something that needs to represent the needs of the group as a whole, and assist in steering it towards a destination, while keeping it from certain situations that would cause negative connotations. I don’t see a problem being that person. In my career as a Master Electrician, there have been many times when someone has an idea of a shortcut; but that shortcut simply isn’t allowed per the code. It would be my job to bring that fact up and push the project into a slightly different direction, one which follows the code and still accomplishes the end result. There are certain mottos or mission statements, that the WGA follows. It would be everyone on the boards place to make sure all ideas are in alignment to those as well as the end goal.
One of the things that seem to be an issue right now, based on what I have seen through these forums, is the Social Media aspect and the lack of a user friendly website. Now I’m not sure that either of these things can be improved upon, I suspect to improve on the site, we would need a webpage programmer to spend a lot of resources to accomplish that goal, resources, that we simply may not have.
The views expressed here are that of myself only and do not necessarily represent that of the WGA board.
How confident are you in your ability to adapt, not only yourself to the task of being a board member, but also the organization as a whole? I am very confident in my ability to adapt to the task of being a board member and the organization as a whole. I don’t believe I have any problems adapting to either task (which basically go hand in hand) in the past 2 years that I have served on the BOD.
Are their any particular situations that you would like to share about your ability to adapt? One example of my ability to adapt occurred at work last year; my position was being restructured and being awarded to someone else so I had to adapt to a new job. Many times we cannot control what happens but we can control how we react to it. How you react to something makes all the difference.
Finally, do you have any ideas for how the WGA could adapt and stay strong in Wisconsin for another 15 years? The WGA is a strong organization now and any organization is only as strong as its members so if we continue to listen to the members I believe we will continue to thrive. And I agree with the others we do have some issues with ease of use and social media. These are problems that will not be fixed overnight but will take time but with everyone working together toward the same goal, it should be attainable.I am a teacher. We have to adapt every day. You never know what the day will bring: schedules change, kids misbehave, parent shows up for an unscheduled conference, lesson goes quicker than planned, lesson takes longer than planned, colleague needs help with something …
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Just over 2 years ago I adapt to a job change. Since then there have been many management changes, I feel I have adapted very well in these scenarios. I feel if we cant adapt to change then we are looking to fail. Sometimes change is for the better, sometimes for the worst but if you can survive prosper by what you have learned through the change.
There have been many changes in my life in the last year or so, both personal and in my professional life. In the cases when you think it can’t get any worse, you have to learn to adapt and make the best out of the situation. I feel I have learned to adapt well to my new lifestyle (medically took a while) but in the end, it helped me grown into the person I am today. I feel now that really I can handle any changes thrown my way.
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