aishabintjamil

I've been thinking for a while about doing some blogging here on SCA service topics, as a kind of repository for my students. It's likely to be half soap box and half lessons.

For the benefit of people here who may not be familiar with it, SCA is shorthand for the Society for Creative Anachronism (http://www.sca.org), a medieval recreation group. In the context of that group I hold a high level award for service to the group (the Order of the Pelican), and in that position I take students (referred to in the context of the group as proteges).

I'm going to write a lot of things about management in this series - management of projects, management of people, and even organizational management. These are the things a Pelican can teach their students, along with some armchair psychology. I don't try to teach them to want to be of service - that's an inclination that's either there or it's not. I do try to teach them ways to follow that impulse effectively, without burning themselves out, and ways to cope with the people they may need to interact with.

And there will be the occasional philosophical soapbox about how I think we should be doing things as a group.

I don't have target dates for these, or even a terribly organized plan for writing them, so don't look for a logical order. I'm just going to write them as I find myself thinking about a topic based on events around me.