First attempt
From
the last Monday, when I and my fellow basketball members realised that the
basketball club manager is no longer here, we have decided to run the club on
our on. Last week, even though it's a bit late to say now, but we have did some
basic planning for the first session of the new school year.
Basically,
we made a rough draft of a plan, involving the possible activities we will do
on the session and how the game will play out. Frankly, I wasn't involve as
much in the first draft of the planning but I sure was involved applying it on
the day (last Wednesday).
As
the result, the day was fairly good, but there were some complaints from the
members and the whole section lacked structure.
The "new plan"
Therefore,
I have made a newer version of the plan yesterday, just before the second
session. In this plan, I have redesigned the warm up section into more detailed
drills which is an improvement from the last time. I addition, I have also
added a register for the club, in order to see how frequent and punctuate are
the members of the club. Finally, as sort of a manager ( I guess I am the
manager, I don't fully know) of the club, I have delegated some of the work to
fellow members. Those delegations involve:
- Splitting
the people into two groups, thereby making the drill be more time
efficient (delegated the work to the other leader of the group)
- Assigning
special tasks (recording the score-miss table for each participant, taking
a video (still working on this) and recording the score) to the players
who are not playing at the time, because two out of three teams will play,
leaving one team to watch.
Those
delegation shows that I have allocated the work to others in order to make the
club run normally, otherwise I could not have done everything myself due to the
fact that there is not enough time to perform them alone.
Today
was a busy but exciting day. After the school has ended, I hurried to the gym
to start the plan. In beginning, I was a bit nervous, due to my shy nature, but
I found some courage in myself and started the club my announcing few important
elements that my new plan had. Firstly, I took the register which I have made yesterday, and guess what; it was a great idea to know how many people came today, which will be helpful when it comes to splitting teams for games. I have also added two new member of the club, 2 year 8 girls. I guess my plan for the sign up sheet worked. Anyway, I found out the number of people and began the drills, everything went smoothly, until I and my friend found out the amount of drills was too little for half an hour. In panic, I quick asked one the older member of the club, if she had any good ideas, and luckily she had one. Next time I have something to improve on.
When the game has started, I took the responsibility of refereeing the
first game, simply because it was my duty. Even though it was my
first time doing this, but I did a pretty good job, hopefully not overly biased
here, because of the times I watched how others refereed last year.
The
part about recording the score-miss sheet, people picked it up very willingly,
so there was no problem with that. Everyone was very collaborative today which
really made happy and I hope this will continue throughout the year.
At
last, it’s time for some criteria meeting session:
- I have
successfully identified the weakness of the last plan and has improved
upon it, but still open for further improvement.
- The managing a
club is a brand new challenge for me, because I have never done anything
this size before.
- I have
successfully planned the activities and enthusiastically initiated it as
much as I could.
- On the route to
today's small success I have learn the importance of collaboration.
- I have shown
perseverance and commitment throughout the last year in basketball club
and this will continue this year as usual.
- This maybe under
considered, but in my posters I have welcomed everyone to join, regardless
of the year, gender, which to certain extend attributes to the global
issue of discrimination.
- Concerning about
ethics, our club will always play fair games and trying hardest to
minimise injuries and any form of bullying.
- At last I have
developed some managerial skills such as announcing news and applying
theory into practice.
