Posted by twinleaf on April 3, 2008, at 17:45:29
In reply to Re: as things stand now, posted by Dr. Bob on April 3, 2008, at 9:18:31
I'm not sure training a deputy to be a leader in stressful times is something one can actually do. Perhaps the best way to approach it would be to make sure that posters trained as deputies know that they may be called upon to exercise leadership functions in rare times when a crisis occurs and you are not here. How each person does that is going to be unique to them- the sum of their knowledge, their intuition, their personal sense of what is needed. It will never be, and shouldn't be, the same for any two deputies.
I actually very much wanted to help in the recent crisis, and felt that I had the skills to do so, but I stopped myself, because i thought it would be presumptuous and disrespectful of me to take on any function which seemed (to me) to belong to the deputies!
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