Tango-Papa-November

All,

Having gone through some of the discussion on this thread, I wish to make some early comments regarding my nomination. I have been in the IT industry for over 21 years and also been on the executive committees of other professional membership based organisation. Past 10-12 years of my career has been in management position where I have been responsible to drive business transformation projects - mainly focusing on improving efficiencies by making use of digital technology. In my opinion, RAAus is also in need of some modernisation. Using technology would help the board to reach out to maximum number of members and hear their voices and concerns. There is also a need to provide digital library of courses to all members. Further to this, use of technology will also help in providing transparency to the governance process.

I hope everyone has had an opportunity to go through my election statement and I am therefore keeping this post brief. My understanding is that voting percentage is really low for RAAus and I would urge everyone to cast your votes. Your vote will make a difference.

@kasper appreciate and support your views around policies and framework.

Happy flying.

Tapan

In the past I have found it frustrating that I had no idea of how our elected representatives were performing, and if it was worth re-electing them.  The election statements, naturally, would say "Hey, I'm a great guy" but are they really worth my vote?  Fortunately RAAus paid for independent consultants to do a review of the Board performance (Sept 2018) and published this.

 

From the 24 page report (plus attachments)

 

As noted at the outset of this report, an overriding theme of the board evaluation was that the board is currently factionalised.  Other themes relevant to board dynamics included that:

 

• the level of contribution to the board’s work is not equally spread with some directors seemingly having no real engagement in the board’s work other than being physically present at board meetings

 

• some directors are not asking questions in a constructive way, and

 

• it is queried whether all directors are acting in the best interests of RAAus (Page 16)

 

 .. struggle to engage several members as they do not respond to emails, return phone calls and so forth. Alan Middleton often criticises the engagement of board members but fails to return calls and takes an aggressive tone in email (on one occasion I called him 4 times in relation to some out of session matters with no reply). Rod Birrell and Eugene Reid are similar.

 

Alan is not up for re-election but appears to be diametrically opposed to the Board.  With only 7 on the Board RAAus cannot afford to have 3 who are not fully contributing.

 

Kirk Sutton has been a "thorn in the side" querying the finer points of the Constitution at RAAus meetings and on this forum.  You can see his previous by searching here.  My feeling is that he will engage with the Board, not just ignore or have a hissy fit and take his bat & ball away.  He has his own thread, where you can ask questions of him.

 

I have sent an invitation to Alex and Tapan to join this forum and contribute their thoughts.

 

I am not endorsing any candidate.  Please VOTE!

 

Thank you Sue for the invitation. Just going through some insightful discussion on the thread. Will post some thoughts soon.