The Stagehands IATSE Local 8 has been hard at work for more than a week now, preparing for Pope Francis' arrival this weekend.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Stagehands IATSE Local 8 has a lot of setting up during papal week
The Stagehands IATSE Local 8 has been hard at work for more than a week now, preparing for Pope Francis' arrival this weekend.
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I think this issue is not often thought of but at the back of many people's minds. This article does a great job of presenting a problem and explaining a simple solution we can all learn from. Yes, when you are in a position of power it can be easy to get in a habit of trying to control everything but if you ask me, that,s not really a leaders job. A leader is just that, 'a person who leads or commands a group" main word in that sentence being group. If the leader is doing everything then that minimizes the effectiveness of the group as a whole. In high school I was in an organization that trained you to be a leader and they had a lot of the same techniques as are stated in this article. The group I was in was focused on being a role model for kids but not telling them what to do. When ever they had a problem, we would use the "Don't answer the question method" to help them come up with their own solution but guiding them with the questions we asked. For example "What do you think would happen if you were to hit the other kid back? would that solve the problem or make it worse?".
A leader is someone that helps other people better themselves and if you do all of the work yourself and don't give them a chance, they will never be able to do so. being an effective leader is being someone who helps people when they need it but doesn't take away their opportunity to learn and grow. i think this article gives some really great tips on maximizing the effectiveness and strength of a group and its leader.
Much of the general public does not think about how much effort and how many hours it takes for massive events and conventions to be put together. And that’s after an extensive planning phase. For the actual load in, set up, running, and tear down of events it requires a sometimes massive staff. The reason people don’t realize the scope of much of the behind the scenes work is that that is largely the point: you want people to focus on the event, not the work behind putting it together. This requires even more planning and sometimes great amounts of coordination, like the article explains with the use of the online scheduling/task service. As events grow in size, technology helps to fill the logistical gap of being able to get events put up successfully. Despite this, a good basis of communication and coordination are at the core of a successful event.
When dealing with multiple large events across an entire city, it's easy to forget that someone has to organize everything and mobilize the massive amount of people to set it up and break it down when it's done. It's also easy to assume that for city events "the city" will take care of it, but you don't think about the actual people mobilized to set everything up. This kind of undertaking has the potential to be disastrous if you don't have good organization and communication, and the call steward made a point of emphasizing how helpful the internet call board was to his efforts. Contacting and assigning nearly 650 people to multiple events and working with the teams and organizers of all the events takes a very skilled and organized production manager or team of production managers, and it all came together without any major problems. This is a brilliant example of how essential good management is for any event.
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