I wouldn’t say it’s a wasted endeavour- volunteers can become a little …..fixated…. Sometimes feeling that they have the magic bullet to fix things & make everything right if we just did this one thing. It’s why the same topic seems to be keep being brought up amongst several threads even it’s nothing to do with the topic.
It’s why so many empires keep trying to be built and some volunteers spend more time playing the politics as they try to assert their philosophy over the organisations than focusing on the cadets - mainly trying to turn the clock back to the to when they were cadets & everything was fantastic with no issues.
What I fail to understand is how AOC22 group or even CAC can be the blocker for the day to day - unless the organisation has become truly dysfunctional.
By & large volunteers faced with difficult paid staff will just wait the paid staff out (this is why your E1 & E2s are the most valuable to you - they tend to stick around longer and be most tuned in to managing the volunteers with the proper support, preventing volunteers from playing paid staff off against each other - think of the party Whips in parliament & you’re not far off the mindset they have to grabble with - under no circumstances let CFAVs take on these roles or you will be in for a world of hurt).
It is natural in a volunteer organisation that the volunteers want the organisation to run round them. How ever that may not be in the best interest of the organisation.
What is needed is a level forum for debate & idea generation which this forum should be about.
So personally I think it’s great you are engaging & it adds value (& personally i would be interested to hear your suggestions / reviews on the books or Leadership Clips but that’s a personal geekism). I would say perhaps like some more post to show engagement even if you don’t comment but that’s an individual call.
I think that there needs to be an acceptance & expectation that this forum is a bit like the pub / mess & what is put in here will not or cannot become policy without going through formal channels.