Conflicts

I am certain that in every organization conflicts are bound to arise. Some events are supposed to be scheduled a year in advance so that entities within the organization can plan their own meetings and events with the organization as a whole in mind and without conflicting with those already planned events. So, what do you do when the leadership at the top has failed to plan an important training meeting a year in advance and informs you of it only nine days in advance when the lower entity has already planned something? You write off the other one and tell them to plan better next time! I just had to inform someone that their lack of planning was going to negate our entire branch of the organization from attending their training that was supposed to be planned and placed on a calendar a year in advance. I am a little bit worried about the backlash just because I know some of the people involved and they are nit-picky. I suppose that I am used to nice invitations being mailed a month in advance informing me of the important event and it not conflicting with things already in the works. Ugh. While I wish that everyone would do things how they are supposed to be done, I need to have patience with others because I certainly screw up things pretty good on my own sometimes.
In other news....One of the youth I work with told me that she just doesn't feel like attending our meetings. That's it??!!?? You just don't FEEL like doing something? What kind of adult will she be if she just writes things off because she doesn't feel like doing things? What would the world be like if any of us with any responsibility just decided that we didn't FEEL like taking care of those things entrusted to our care? I am regretting not firing back at her with those comments. Instead I simply said, "You have your agency, but you are making a poor decision." Her mom had already talked to her about not attending and then returned to her own class. Week after week it is the same thing with this mother and daughter. Maybe soon they will FEEL like doing the right thing, but hopefully before it is too late.