🚀 go-pugleaf

I was misinformed (or ignorant for other reasons!) about the request.
Having a CHANGE SIG across clusters is a great idea.  Thanks, Jim, for
providing the proper information.  I stand corrected.

GW

>>> "Dr. Jim Ellsworth" <JBElsworth@AOL.COM> 05/07 8:56 AM >>>
While this is not a formal CHANGE response, as the current
Communications
Officer I feel obligated to address a couple of understandable
misconceptions
generated by the preceding discussion.

First, CHANGE did NOT "resist change" or ask not to be reorganized
according
to the new structure.  Our proposal was to form a "cross-cluster SIG"
where
we could retain our networks with other professionals who (contrary
to George
Wilson's assumption) are primarily facilitators of
organizational/systemic
change in our professional lives, regardless of which of the new
Division's
contexts we happen to be consulting in at a particular point of time.
 I
personally spent a great deal of time in Houston generating and
filling
signup sheets with names of CHANGE members interested in leading and
belonging to SIGS within each of the new Divisions, so that we could
best
CONTRIBUTE TO--not resist--the evolution the AECT Board has begun.

Second, I think it is understandable that CHANGE is being discussed a
lot
here--both by the Board and by the membership in this forum--because
what
AECT is attempting IS serious, radical change.  It SHOULD BE--needs
to
be--systemic in nature if AECT is to survive (that is, it needs to
consider
the interrelationships between the constituencies AECT serves, their
needs
and objectives, and their respective strengths--then weave them
together into
a functioning, "living" SYSTEM capable of adapting to meet the
changing
demands of our profession).  HOWEVER, I think most of us--inside and
outside
CHANGE--would agree that this has, in many cases, NOT been an
accurate
description of what has happened.  Therefore, it makes some sense for
those
of us whose careers involve facilitating such processes--and who
have
established records of success helping organizations through
them--be
involved in some way in helping our own Association move into the
future (or
at least the present!)

We are all on the same team here.  Nobody is trying to play by
different
rules.  We will all contribute in our own ways--we don't need a whole
string
of shortstops--but we must all pull together here!  Let's help Kyle
and the
Board make it happen.

--Jim Ellsworth
Communications Officer,
CHANGE