AGM seeks better communications
The annual general
meeting carried a motion asking the Council to set up a committee “to ensure that all communication, both within and without the profession, are better able to influence events, and to improve communication between the Society and its members”.
Proposing the motion, John Gentle described the Society’s communication
and public relations as good in parts, but with some of it being not
very good at all.
The Society should sing its successes more and the fact that it did not
resulted in members being ignorant of many of its functions and devalued
the efforts of its staff. This led to low morale and work not being best
used for the benefit of the profession and the public.
The Society needed to prioritise its efforts, Mr Gentle said. It needed
to focus its efforts and to execute them better.
Seconding, Bruce Rhodes said that members needed to know what was going
on. The Society was not necessarily doing wrong.
Opposing, Steven Curtis said that he he supported the ethos of the motion
but opposed the setting up of a new committee.
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