1. Club Chair Workshop 1

2. Club Chair Training 2018
Workshop 1 – Intro to Club Development
Workshop 2 – Leadership and The Self
Workshop 3 – Reflection and Action Planning
Workshop 4 – People Management

3. The role of a club Chair Representing your club Liaisie with the AU
To club members
Liaisie with the AU
To other clubs
General Meetings
To the Athletic Union Staff & AU Exec
Changes within the club
To the University
Sign off on club matters and processes
Leading your club committee
Organising committee meetings
Review coaching contracts
Support committee members’ work
Club budgets & Finances
Delegating tasks and projects
Sponsorship contracts
Risk Assessments

4. Workshop outcomes
What Club Development is and how it can be applied to your club
How to write a Club Development Plan with your committee
The structure of the Club Development team, and who does what
How the Club Development Portal can be used
What the Club Development Programme is and how to apply

5. Club Development – What?
Planned action that results in a positive change for the club
What it’s about…
Making existing methods more efficient or effective
Adapting to the needs of the club members
Looking ahead and anticipating future barriers or opportunities
Leaving the club in a better position than when you started

6. What progress have you made?
Club Development – How?
What progress have you made?
How will you get there?
Where do you want to be?
Where are you now?

7. What progress have you made?
Club Development – How?
Where are you now?
Where do you want to be?
How will you get there?
What progress have you made?

8. What progress have you made?
Club Development – How?
What progress have you made?
How will you get there?
Where do you want to be?
Where are you now?
Analysis
Goal setting
Action planning
Reflection

9. Club Development - Examples
Cricket split into Men’s and Women’s Cricket Clubs
Sailing and Windsurfing improved their finances
Lacrosse’s coaching programme

10. What are the weaknesses and opportunities within your club?
Question
What are the weaknesses and opportunities within your club?

11. Club Development Plans
A written version of what you want to achieve
Used as a guiding document and method of tracking progress
Anyone should be able to understand and complete it

16. Writing a Club dev Plan 1. Identify the areas of development
SWOT Analysis
Discussion amongst your committee
Speaking to members of the club
Speaking to old committee
Reading the previous Club Dev Plan

18. Writing a Club dev Plan 2. Decide what you want to achieve Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time bound

20. Writing a Club dev Plan 3. Work out how you’re going to do it
Step by Step actions
Be as detailed as possible
Apply the SMART principles
Anyone should be able to complete the actions

22. Break

23. The Club Dev Team
Club Development Officer
Club Development Mentor

24. Club Development Officer
Sits on the AU Exec
Leads the team of Club Development Mentors
Oversees the organisation of workshops and drop-in sessions
Manages content on the Club Dev Portal
Carries out an evaluation of the AU’s Club Development offer

25. Club Development Mentors
Assist in workshop and drop-in session delivery
Manage content on the Club Dev Portal
Provide personal support to Clubs on the Club Dev Programme

26. Brodie Miller (BrodieMiller@lsu.co.uk)
The club dev Team
Brodie Miller
TBC

27. The au’s club dev offer Club Development Team Club Development
Programme
Portal
Workshops
Drop In Sessions

28. The Club Dev Portal The core offer of support available to all clubs
Club Dev Programme
The Forum: Questions, Ideas, Requests
Case Studies
Role Support guides
Workshops
Managed by the Club Dev Team throughout the year
New this year – give us feedback!

29. The Club Dev Portal

30. Club Dev Programme The only offer that requires an application
Partnership between a Club Dev Mentor and the Cub Chair
Support
Challenge
1-2-1 support to achieve your Club Dev Plan:
Writing
Completing actions
Reflecting
Moving forwards

31. 2018/19 Programme Changes Application process Club Dev Plan template
Ratio of Mentors to Clubs

32. Application Process changes
2017/18
2018/19
Written application by Club Chair with draft Club Development Plan attached.
Three stage process:
Written application
Shortlisting for interview, taking into account:
Attendance at Chair’s Workshops
% of new committee ‘checking out’
Written application quality
20-30 minute interviews between Club Chairs and Club Development Team.

33. Club Dev Plan changes 2017/18 2018/19
Typically written solely by the Club Chair with little input from the other committee members.
Achievement of goals normally the responsibility of the Club Chair only.
Key aspects:
Long term goal
3-5 short term goals
Written collaboratively by the whole committee, and coordinated by the Club Chair.
Achievement of goals is a shared responsibility.
Club Chair has three ‘seasonal’ goals.
Club Committee have one (maybe shared) goal for the full year.

34. Mentor:Club Ratio changes
2017/18
2018/19
Mentors had between 5 and 8 clubs.
Club Development Officer also had clubs.
Mentors will have between 2 and 3 clubs.
Club Development Officer has no clubs.

35. How to apply
Written application online Open now until midnight Friday 4th May
Shortlisting based on
Attendance at Club Chair Workshops
% of New Club Committee that complete the Handover/Check Out
Quality of written applications
Short interview with Club Dev Team minute slot; 5-10 minute introduction/briefing, 20 minute interview with 2 members of the Club Dev Team

36. ANY Questions?