Steadying the ship

Abstract

The last nine months have been an interesting and challenging time for the Executive of the ASM. I am taking this opportunity to describe the problems and what we are proposing to do about them, and have done so far. You may know that we have had a series of resignations from the office staff: our Conference Manager in May, our Office Manager in August and our Events Manager in November. At this time the ASM is no longer an employer. We have had to consider a number of things as these resignations have accumulated. You’d be aware already that we brought in a professional conference organiser (ICMS) to manage the annual meeting in July at short notice. Given the circumstances, ICMS did a great job, and the meeting went ahead smoothly and did not suffer financially.