TASK FORCE
... a task force may be something to consider...
When our board realized that we needed to learn more about and develop responses to the dynamics of the COVID-19 attack, we quickly realized that committee advice and recommendations would not be enough. We needed the services of a group that could tackle the issue head on and make the complex situational adjustments necessary as each governmental decision was published. Te solution, as we saw it, was to form a task force.
Te problem had already been defined. It was, after all, the reason for considering a task force in the first place. Te fluidity of the situation, long term, meant that our establishing a timeline didn’t make much sense. So our “timeline” amounted to paral- leling the governmental model and we relied on the task force chairman to develop a flexible yet focused methodology.
Te task force needed to have a greater degree of autonomy than might be granted to the typical committee. Of course, it had a reporting responsibility to the board, but it needed the authority to take some degree of independent specific action based on general understandings among the members of the board. Communications links were put in place to ensure the board remained on duty to provide support if they were called upon.
Forming the task force required selecting people within whom the board had great confidence. Tese people needed to possess specific skills to deal with and sort through conflicting media reports; read and accurately comprehend governmental directives; communicate effectively with members of the association so as not to alarm them; and have the ability to absorb the inevitable pressure from members who remained unconvinced that there was a problem at all. We selected our board’s vice president to assume leadership of the task force and authorized him to select the individuals he felt were best suited for the assignment. His experience in health services was an asset we felt we could use to good advantage. Understanding the need to maintain continuity within the group, he chose one other board member whose background includes health services, along with one member of the community who had the systems coordination skills we were seeking.
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