North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

I’m sorry but I regard that as a somewhat silly reply to a serious post. Have you been a railway GM or Director or Trustee?

It isn’t about creating bureaucracy it is about understanding how a place works and addressing where it doesn’t. We are discussing a railway that seems not to be functioning as well as it might, and generalising a bit about HR as a whole. Tough to manage and especially so if not understood.

 

I've also been involved in a policy review - I get all the best tasks as a volunteer.

What's really interesting about that exercise is that the reviews do very little good in themselves - but they do have a habit of flushing out where there are real problems

Meanwhile, and to the point made by @21B, I've been in a situation where someone has been a volunteer and a trustee, and that confusion of hierarchy has caused problems. As trustee, they've challenged what's been presented, but as a volunteer they've been part of inputting to it. The individual concerned has a very back & white view of the world, so managing that tension and the need to wear different hats has been difficult.