Know your rules, keep your volunteers
Thanks. Here are your resources
From the Interact Community Dispute Resolution Service (ICDRS). Download them now, and share them with your committee.
Committee worksheet
What it is
A self-check to work through your own rules as a committee in 30 to 45 minutes: which rules apply, your grievance and disciplinary steps, disputes with people who aren’t members, and your agreed process, “how we do things here”. The last page explains how ICDRS can help.The slides
The presentation from the session, including the conflict spiral, where mediation sits in each state’s model rules and the eight traps.
Keep going
The interactive guide
Your state’s rules step by step, the eight trap self-checks, mediator, conciliator or arbitrator, and when to call the police.
Open the interactive guideHandling conflict in clubs and associations
Is it conflict, bullying or harassment? What the law expects of committee members, and when it’s not a do-it-yourself job.If you ticked the newsletter box, you’ll get the monthly ICDRS newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time from the link in any email.
Need help now?
A mediator accredited under the Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation Standards (AMDRAS) can call you back, free. No formal complaint needed.
icdrs@interact.support · 1300 079 345
General information, not legal advice. Your own rules may differ, so check yours.