Clubs with Heart Webinar Series

In this session, we will identify what differentiates a ‘Club with Heart’ from other clubs and the pillars we need to develop of care, culture, courage, and resilience. We will look at the importance of understanding your club’s current story. We will ask the question, where has your club come from and where is it heading? We need to develop an honest perspective of what we do well and what we need to work on, to create a future story that we can all be proud of.

Every club needs to understand the barriers that are blocking their progress. Every club has standards that they accept and standards they won’t accept. What are the standards we walk past, the blind spots and unconscious bias that exist in our club? In session 2, we look to address the barriers positively and collectively. Having established our barriers, clubs must acquire the knowledge required to overcome them.

For the club to function effectively and deliver on its commitments, we need to understand the roles we need to fill, the people available to us, along with the skills and traits we are looking for. In this session we will talk about the importance of structure, character and competency, and how to find the right people, place them in the right positions and empower them to be successful.

In Session 4, we look at behavioural expectations that reflect our club’s values and then holding ourselves and each other accountable to live these out consistently. Great clubs understand their brand and how that is reflected in what they do and how they do it. Great clubs call out misaligned behaviour and assist people to adjust to what is agreed and understood as being acceptable behaviours.

Great clubs need great leaders, committed to the aspirations of the club and steadfast in their commitment to ongoing improvement. Session 5 is about identifying and preparing everyone in the club to positively lead. We will look at six different leadership styles and identify why all of them can be effective when enacted by the right people at the right times.

Finally, we need to compete, and great clubs understand that a winning culture is important within a sporting context. Ultimately, winning makes sport fun and we want people to enjoy themselves. In this session, we will look at how to build confidence, conditioning, skill, team spirit, initiative, passion, and communication. These attributes bring success, but are they built on the foundations of something simpler and more important?