- Commitee Members – All resources (click on link to access)
- The importance of developing athletes and players
- What is facility management?
- Why should clubs have a Facility Management Plan?
- Costs your club can expect in your facility life cycle
- Common meeting terms and definitions
- The fundamentals of social media and online communication
- What is a committee meeting and why do we need them?
- Understanding why we communicate
- The key areas of focus for committee meetings
- What is volunteering?
- What stops people from volunteering?
- Why do people volunteer at sports clubs?
- What is volunteering?
- FTEM Player Development Framework Case study: Hockey Australia
- Maximising and managing player development and performance
- Creating a culture of player and athlete learning
- Supporter and parent management from a player development perspective
- Creating a safe training and playing environment for players
- What is an Annual General Meeting and why do they need to be held?
- Common facility management issues
- Preparing for your Annual General Meeting
- Preparing your club’s financial accounts
- Preparing the Annual Report to Members
- How do you write a facility management plan?
- Who should be invited to attend the AGM and what are the notification requirements?
- How does Risk Management and Facility Management go together?
- Annual General Meeting voting procedures
- Facility management funding strategies
- How to run an effective Annual General Meeting
- Committee meeting focus throughout the year
- Strategies to run an effective and productive committee meeting
- Decision making and voting at committee meetings
- Inducting, training and supporting your volunteers
- Empowering your club's volunteers
- Creating a catalyst for volunteering
- Do volunteers even exist anymore?
- Why do people volunteer at sports clubs?
- Do volunteers even exist anymore?
- What stops people from volunteering?
- Creating a catalyst for volunteering
- Empowering your club’s volunteers
- Inducting, training and supporting your volunteers
- Harnessing the power of social media
- What is a communication strategy?
- Content formats
- Targeted communication
- Club stakeholders
- Creating a great club website
- The power of communicating (creating a sense of belonging)
- Email newsletters
- Email newsletter content
- When clubs should use Facebook and Twitter
- 5 Easy Hacks for Your Club’s Social Media!
- What is a facility management plan?
- What is a facility life cycle?
- What needs to be maintained in your facility?
- Characteristics of ineffective or “bad” committee meetings
- The power of a strong meeting agenda
- Preparing for your committee meetings
- The power of a great club communication strategy
- Using communication to build relationships and a strong sense of belonging
- Unleashing the amazing power of your club’s website and email newsletter
What is volunteering?
Probably the most important concept club Presidents, committee members and leaders need to understand is, what is volunteering?
A very simple question but the ramifications are massive for club because without question, after years of working with all types of clubs around every part of Australia, including remote, outback, rural and metropolitan regions the one characteristic that all successful clubs have is a culture of volunteering.
Clubs who have created a culture of volunteering, year on year are much more likely to be successful, achieve their goals, be more fun and enjoyable to be apart of, have more social benefits and above all have a strong sense of belonging between the club and its participants.
Traditionally, we have thought of volunteering as being on the committee or undertaking a role around the club, such as team manager, coaching, canteen manager or other similar traditional volunteering roles.
But here at Sports Community our definition is:
“Any unpaid contribution of a person or group of people that contributes to contributes to achieving club objectives”
Seems a relatively simple definition but potentially forces a rethink for clubs on what volunteering is.
Consider these scenarios:
- Is a parent driving their children to training volunteering?
- Is a player inviting their partner and their best friends to the midseason ball volunteering?
- Is bringing a friend to the club as player or supporter volunteering?
- Is encouraging your friends and family to come and watch you play at the club volunteering?
- Is selling raffle tickets or a box of chocolates to work colleagues volunteering?
In our training sessions there is always considerable debate about what is volunteering, especially driving children to training but without doubt all are examples of people contributing to the goals of the club without payment so are in fact volunteering.