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 [log in to unmask] Vice-President Westchester/Putnam/Rockland (WPR) Lactation Consortium "Children are Born with the Right to be Breastfed" *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]