Executive Review Committee Report September 24th, 2014

Council overall
- Overall people felt their experience on council has been positive
- People feel there is a community within the DSU as a whole
- There is still room for improvement
- The level of community feeling has fluctuated over the years
- A community within council itself needs to be worked on
Individuals feel
Council meets obligations: 4/5
Comfortable contributing to discussion: 4/5
Council operates efficiently: 2/5
Council operates transparently: 3/5
Councilors are informed about the issues at hand: 3/5
The structure of council meets its needs: 3/5
Students at large are informed on DSU issues: 2/5

Recommendations
- meetings should be more organized
- need to engage councilors that are not involved
- conversations should be more free flowing and open, less formal to allow for
constructive solutions
- more information needs to be provided to councilors
- information should be more organized and sent out with appropriate notice
- councilors should be more comfortable and familiar with Roberts Rules
- more resources to help councilors to construct motions and reports
- council is very exclusive, projects negative image
- more information should be provided to proxies
- attendance should be taken more seriously
- if individuals are not present, presentations, nominations, and elections
should not take place on their behalf
- background information pertaining to issues should be unbiased, circulated
in advance
- needs to be more discussion, avoid making decisions quickly
- need to improve the sound system
- review system for DSU staff and departments
- express individual goals for council overall
- work collectively on projects
- mechanism for students at large to reach out to council, host consultation
time 30 minutes before each meeting, councilors encouraged to come and
listen

Executive as a Whole

Communication with council: 3/5

Outreach to Studley Campus: 3/5
Outreach to Carleton campus: 1/5
Outreach to Sexton Campus: 3/5
Outreach to students at large: 2/5
Communication with other executives internally: 3/5
Overall performance: Satisfactory

Strengths:
- background work on policy and strategy
- good outreach
- good at dealing with policy
- many goals and ideas
- execs have a lot of experience with council
- commitment to positions
- concern for councilors knowledge/understanding
- supporting each other
- reaching out to Sexton
- taking everyone seriously at meetings
Weaknesses/areas of improvement:
- do not always connect with student body
- poor transparency
- need to get councilors/students more involved with initiatives
- committee system could be improved
- communication with councilors and constituents
- efficiency
- fiscal management
- punctuality
Recommendations/observations:
- keep common goal in sight, work together, be unified
- improve transparency
- hosted good initial events
- improve communication with constituents
- need to work better as a team
- engage students
- reach out to student groups
- supported student initiatives
- postings on website have improved
- meetings at Sexton have been regular and encouraging
- have reached out to get faculties involved
- need to be more efficient during meetings
- less separated (ex. Oweek should be organized by all 5 executives)
- staff should do what execs don't need to do

Executives Individually
President:
Communication with council: 4/5
Outreach to Studley Campus: 3/5
Outreach to Carleton campus: 2/5
Outreach to Sexton Campus: 4/5
Outreach to students at large: 3/5
Communication with other executives: 4/5
Overall performance: Excellent

Observations/ Recommendations
- doing a great job
- many goals but has been executing them well
- needs improvement talking to student body
- transitioned well
- needs to help exec work together as a team
- very experienced and knowledgeable
- very approachable and hard working
- needs to improve off campus presence
- very open to communication
- leadership qualities help his involvement
VPI:

Communication with council: 3/5

Outreach to Studley Campus: 3/5
Outreach to Carleton campus: 2/5
Outreach to Sexton Campus: 3/5
Outreach to students at large: 3/5
Communication with other executives: 3/5

Overall Performance: Good

Observations/ recommendations
- societies have been very well connected
- levied society meetings were great
- website looks great
- hiring of new staff has been valuable
- needs improvement with optimism
- needs to grow into position
- very passionate about position
- lots of great ideas
- needs to outline a plan for the year
- provides information in a biased way
- confident in herself
- take more of a stand on issues

VPAE:
Communication with council: 3/5
Outreach to Studley Campus: 2/5
Outreach to Carleton campus: 2/5
Outreach to Sexton Campus: 2/5
Outreach to students at large: 3/5
Communication with other executives: 3/5

Overall Performance: Good

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Observations/ Recommendations
very passionate about academics
good connections with administration
critical analysis
issues with transparency
very involved and informed
needs to involve others
needs to provide reports to council
very knowledgeable about advocacy
needs to reach out to student body more
considerate of everyone

VPFO:
Communication with council: 4/5
Outreach to Studley Campus: 2/5
Outreach to Carleton campus: 2/5
Outreach to Sexton Campus: 3/5
Outreach to students at large: 3/5
Communication with other executives: 4/5

Overall Performance: Good

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Observations/ Recommendations
many strengths
needs improvement communicating with people who need help
has been very helpful to societies
has been very involved in committees
very knowledgeable about position, society, and operations
open and approachable with genuine interest in helping
needs to educate others more about union operations
provides budget reports
needs to improve providing information about candidates on behalf of the
nominating committee

very committed to position

knowledge of finance
needs to respond to emails more quickly
very organized

VPSL:
Communication with council: 4/5
Outreach to Studley Campus: 3/5
Outreach to Carleton campus: 2/5
Outreach to Sexton Campus: 3/5
Outreach to students at large: 4/5
Communication with other executives: 4/5

Overall Performance: Good

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Observations/ Recommendations
makes students feel welcome
does well with the Grawood
delegates well and empowers people
goes about and beyond mandate
needs improvement supporting those he delegates to
orientation week was a success
very open communication, approachable
experienced in position, personality suits it
successfully involves non-council members in initiatives
more formal approach when reaching out to students is needed
needs a wider variety of student events
does not promote varsity athletics
does not promote Tiger spirit on campus
experience in planning is a strength
takes position seriously

Executive Review Moving Forward

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Fall review sheets to be sent out at the Council meeting on November 5th
Review forms are due November 19th
November will be open for consultations with the ERC
Final report will be given at the December 3rd Council meeting