Organisational retrospective

General
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This post is seeking feedback on the organisation to formulate our strategy going forward. Keep it succinct, dot points over manifestos.

What do we, as an organisation, do well? What are we getting right at the moment?

What do we, as an organisation, do badly? What are we getting wrong?

What should we do in future? What specific changes do you want to see from the organisation?

Example: Flintstones cars

Good:

  • Cheap
  • easy to repair

Bad:

  • Glass on roads
  • No faster than walking but take more energy

Changes for the future:

  • Design of vehicles may have long term impacts on housing
  • Another type of engine may be more effective.

Edit note: I’ve changed this a couple of times for tone and content because some people may not be as familiar with this process as I am.

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What do we, as an organisation, do well? What are we getting right at the moment?
Providing tools the average Joe is unable to afford or have due to space constraints at home.

What do we, as an organisation, do abysmally? What are we getting wrong?
Community outreach, getting more members and building up the space.
Getting more of the membership involved and interested in helping out. The exec as always are burnt out, time poor and trying their best. But the organisation needs more people to step up to make it run smoothly.

What should we do in future? What specific changes do you want to see from the organisation?
Hang on and survive, it will be a shame to see HSBNE die. If this requires signing a lease at the paint factory, then we need to get it through. As long as the maths checks out and we can afford to rent the space with a slight decrease in membership (just in case member numbers do drop).

While members opinions are valuable, we as members need to take a step back and consider all the options on the table.
It is easy to dislike an idea, if someone has put a lot of effort into researching and presenting this idea, it can be heartbreaking to be the only viable option on the table but not being accepted. So I would like members in the future to be more aware that they need to also be putting in effort coming up with an alternatives before disliking all of the options presented. This is the only way we are going to move forward as an organisation and not stagnant and die.