The
5 Key Success Areas
Contents of This Page
1) The 5 Key Success Areas
2) Managing Performance Constraints
3) How to Use the Tool Kit
4) Acknowledgements
5) A Note to All in Our Sport
1) The 5 Key Success Areas
Ever had that feeling that you’ve got 1000 problems to
deal with? Well dividing your
organisation into just 5 key areas can help you group those problems, focus and
simplify them.
1) Leadership & Organisation (what is the atmosphere like
how smooth is the operation)
2) Membership & Promotion (how full are you?)
3) Volunteers (do you have enough?)
4) Money (do you have enough J?)
5) Performance on Court (are you as good as you
could be?)
Note – Performance on Court
includes:
a) Facilities & Resources (quality and ease of access
to a facility)
b) Coaching & Development (quality and degree of
training)
c) Competitions & Officials (competition that encourages
people at all levels)
This matches the 7 (i.e. 1 to 4 plus 5a, 5b and 5c)
menus in the volunteer tool kit.
2) Managing Performance Constraints
No matter how successful or unsuccessful you are you
will have a constraint in one of these 5 areas – one area that is stopping you
from growing or developing. It will
always be that way – as you remove one constraint you will grow until you hit
another. That fact is something that you
share with every organisation in the World.
Under leadership you will also find an excel sheet
that has an organisational health check which also covers these 7 areas. Fill in the questions and you will get a
graph that outlines your strengths – great if you want to check your strategy
or for future planning.
Be aware that this is only a model and as with all
models only reflects what is happening and must be tailored to suit your
organisation. Simple common sense is
usually the best way to go.. If you can
think of improvements to it or omissions feel free to let us know as it should
be something which evolves to suit the environment not the other way round. (cliff@badminton.org.nz
or phone 021-676-231)
3) How to Use the Tool Kit - Using the Menus
Simply click on one of the 7 main menus. On each page you have three options to click
on
1) 5 Simple Steps to Success. These the key to adapting to the modern sports
environment and making things easier.
2) Case Studies – what’s new and working in
our sport and others
3) Tools – ideas or templates that
you can read or copy. Includes a funding
guide, how to recruit volunteers, budget templates, how to become incorporated
etc.
4) Acknowledgements
I’d like to acknowledge contributions from:
Ray Walbridge - in providing the site and support to
set up this tool kit on line.
Trevor Johnston, former CEO, Riverlands Ltd and former
President Ashburton Squash Club - an inspirational leader in both business and
sport.
Tania Johnston &
Simon Maister -
People from around NZ
who have taken the time to contribute a case study or idea to this tool
kit.
5) A Note To All Those Involved in Our Sport
And most of all to all of you out there involved in
our sport as a player, sponsor, coach, court official, parent, volunteer, paid
staff member etc who through small actions each day keep our sport going
Heroes come in many forms and we have many unsung
heroes who, each day, get up and do the job to the best of their ability (even
when they don’t feel like it) to support their family, their sport, or
something they believe in. If you know
of someone like this take the time at least once a year to appreciate them in
some way or just say “Thanks Heaps for Making a Difference”.