On 17/10/2013 20:35, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 10/18/2013 3:54 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
I believe the "intense service" you mention is a significant
deterrent for many.
I'm sure it's been suggested before, but is there mileage in
rethinking the
AD roles,
It has been suggested many times. The suggestion has been ignored.
We have been having some very serious recruitment problems for a
number of years now. This year's crisis was entirely predictable.
The only way the situation will change meaningfully is to make the job
less onerous, and especially make it possible for the AD to continue
doing real work for their company.
ADs are senior folk. That makes them a strategic resource for their
company. Or, at least, they'd better be. Only very large companies
can afford to lose a strategic resource for years.
Looking for alternative funding does not make the job less onerous and
does not permit the AD to continue doing real work for their company.
Re-define the bloody job. At a minimum, make the workload
realistically no more than 50%, but I actually suggest trying for 25%,
given that reality will increase the actual amount above that.
Agreed.
One positive initiative implemented a few months ago is the addition of
the document shepherd to the IESG telechat.
Personally, this helps me a lot.
Regards, Benoit
This means taking the current list of AD tasks and deciding on the
ones that absolutely cannot be done by others, and specifying other
ways to do the remainder.
d/