If you think about it, the course taught us to monitor and employ strategies as necessary to address contingencies that our learning and planning has told us will be warning signs of potential problems (e.g. someone lurking a long time - send a private email to check, encourage, assist, etc).
Thus, our contingency response forms part of many of our strategies. Think about it as "Which tactics are we using when things are humming along perfectly?" vs "Which tactics swing into action, or are enhanced, when things aren't going ideally?" The latter reflect our readiness for deviation from the ideal - our contingency planning.
Unfortunately, the BIG contingency, like mass defection and no return, would constitute a mass failure of the whole concept. Here would one suspect inaccurate initial feasibility and other research?
Disasters do happen, but advances are not made without well-informed pioneering efforts! We must be one of the best-placed groups for success in our endeavours!
Kathi:-)
Posted by Kathi Eland at November 5, 2003 10:55 AMHello all
I like Kathi's comment about "thinking about what tactics we use when things are working well". How often do we forget to do that? When someone goes belly up we are quick to think about where we went wrong, however there is so much value in looking at what is happening when things are going well. This gives us great insights into our strengths and resources.
This is exactly the same as a counselling approach known as strengths based counselling. Where the focus of the counselling is more heavily on "when things are going well" what is happening, and how can we draw on those strenghts and resources to move back to that scenario once again.
A valuable point for us to consider when reflecting on our work.
Posted by: Wenda Donaldson at November 5, 2003 03:26 PMOoops - I meant someTHING not someONE sorry
Posted by: Wenda Donaldson at November 5, 2003 03:28 PMHELP Please
I can access the main page, and have just discovered the neat little option - to subscribe to the Bloglet, which I assume means I will get an email when new postings are made??
However I can not login and therefore I can't work out how to create a new thread or how to access more than the main page - this is the oly site I can get into www.otheredge.com.au/klogs/sparks2
Can anyone help?
Thanks
Wenda