NFRC Homework

During the Opening Session of the NFRC Membership Meeting on Monday, Chair Joe Hayden assigned a “homework” task.

He extended a question to the membership, “What is NFRC’s barrier to success?”

Throughout the week, attendees have written their thoughts on easels placed throughout the meeting space.

Among the items listed were:

• The public’s lack of interest in the effort
• Teamwork
• Politics
• Too much detail
• Too narrow perspective or vision on NFRC purpose
• Traditional mentality
• Unity
• Code enforcement
• Difficulty for new members to figure out what is going on
• History (let the past stay in the past)
• Overly bureaucratic process
• Short term, narrow, defensive thinking
• Barrier= challenge = opportunity!
• Complexity
• Entrenched thinking - do it the old way
• "Expert debaters for hire"