in the reserves it is a lack of enforcement. you cannot force someone to pay attention, come into work on training nights, or force them to read memos.
when i was on a class b callout, ( spent over 5 years on one callout ) i found that reserve officers were a big offender of not showing up on training nights. especially on admin nights, they would miss important meetings, or training sessions and then when the traing weekend would coem they would be playing catch up. Troops would know what was the plan mostly from the mess chat afterwards or they would be sitting around waiting for the officer to be briefed so he could then release the information down to the troops.
Troops on the lower level were always the last to know about changes, and the changes would always come on the fly.
other problems in the res. is the fact that people do not show up on training weekends when expected and the lack of manpower results in a breakdown, cannot do the planned training because not enough soldiers to man the equipment, so some soldiers get little training as they become extras along for the ride so to speak.
i have only been on 2 exercises where the planning was not enough for the number of troops who showed up, we did not have enough food ordered, or transport , double the number of troops showed up for that weekend. throw everything off budgets, ammo, food , and transport but it turned out to be the best exercises ever. been on one exercise , range weekend in Petawawa, expected 100 soldiers of all ranks to show up for the shoot, last shoot of the FN C1s , we were going to switch over to C7 next fall. food ordered, ammo ordered, range shacks and range order. every thing was set. Show of hands on the parade square Thursdaynight showed over half the unit would be there plus the full time staff, plus the usual extras. Friday night in the range shack, 3 privates,2 corporals, 1Mcpl, 1 office cadet, 1 Res Captian, ammo for 100 plus soldiers with extra rounds. RSS staff and CO came out the next morning and had a fit, we could not eat the food for breaskfast , lots of it was wasted. We loaded the trucks, ammo went back, we went back to the armouries, fired c1 inserts in the fn and that was range weekend, 500 rounds of 22 cal was used. that is lack of communication in reverse.