As Lairs in many major cities continue to grow larger and larger, many lair leaders are finding organization to be more and more chaotic.
Gone are the days of Lair meetings being composed of a few guys meeting at somebody’s apartment with pizza and beer. Increasingly, Lair meetings are becoming official seminars with a reserved venue at a convention center, a scheduled speaker lineup, and official minutes of all the lair proceedings.
Likewise, the question is posed of how to organize a growing bureaucracy? Especially ones that tend to contain large personalities and growing egos?
The Answer? Lair Constitutions.
The concept of a Constitution organizing the conduct of a Lair originates back to Frank B Kermit and the Montreal Seduction Lair. The Lair Constitution the Montreal Lair developed became the basis for constitutions and charters throughout the world. It solved the difficult questions of how to choose leadership, meeting policies, membership requirements, lair dues, and more. Additionally, the Lair Constitution was an agreed upon set of principles that all members could acknowledge they submitted to when disputes inevitably arise.
Laying down the rules and requirements of members is a critical point for lair leadership when it comes to problematic members. Rouge members flagrantly violating the respect of the lair and other members can bring down morale and cause your best pickup artists to abandon the lair and giving their valuable input and expertise. When it comes to ejecting members and banning people who violate the rules, having a Constitution they agreed to abide by upon accepting membership to the lair simplifies the matter greatly. Specifically, it empowers lair leaders to point to the rule that was violated, without having to discuss specific details that can and will inflame banned members into escalating further drama.
So what elements should be included into the Lair Constitution?
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