Brenda - My personal opinion is that you can organize a committee, but to
ensure success, your director has to be involved to squelch the negative
feedback you are hearing.  The policy has to come from above so that there
can be no arguments with it; the staff has to comply with the director's
instructions.  You do not have that clout even if you do all the work and
all the right things.  Your director can pave the way by talking to all the
staff members at a regular staff meeting; she has to make it clear that it
is coming from her, and her word goes.

 

Another suggestion is to let the committee members discuss what to do and
how to do it when ALL the committee members carry out the instructions "from
the director."  In that way you are letting them own the planning of the new
policy.  Invite the ones who are negative to come to a meeting and voice
their opinions.  You of course can offer to run the ideas by the director;
but you cannot make any promises as to what the director will decide.  If
they object to her decision, they are welcome to discuss it with the
director.  That's called "getting the monkey off your back."  It is not your
fault/problem.

 

If the director does not take on the responsibility, I think you might be in
for a hard time.  The negative staff members may take it out on you and try
to sabotage things.

 

Warm regards,

Lee

 

Lee Galasso, MS, LLLL, IBCLC, RLC

Lactation Specialist

Lactation Center of Westchester/Putnam

Westchester County in NYS, USA

 

914-245-2206

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Vice-President

Westchester/Putnam/Rockland (WPR) Lactation Consortium

 

"Children are Born with the Right to be Breastfed"

 

 

 

 

 


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