[Tim Roden]

About correcting rules of a new association, I had to do that a couple times when I moved to Texas. What I did was, I found a friend in the association leadership and then pointed out rule problem to him. I explained it to him the way I was taught. He took it back to the meeting and he corrected the chapter in how to do it. I wrote and article on transfering several years ago and in it I explained that going backwards is part of the process. If you are really a good official you will be brought up. Take all the political knowledge that you have and use it as you rock the boat without them knowing who is rocking it.

The one thing that I had to do to figure out what the difference between what I knew and what was being done in that state was to attend a regional or state meeting. The local group doesn't necessarily have a clue that they are doing something different, but at the meeting, they actually gave me a list of what was different. Once I knew that, I was able to comfortibly do the state specific mechanic or rule and then teach the my friend in the leadership what I had learned in my previous state. Some are adopted some are not but at least most of my partners are comfortible with they way I call.