During this class, our biggest assignment was the development of a Performance Support Tool (PST), or a job aid. It was required that be something useful and beneficial to us and/or others. So, I took this opportunity to incorporate my love of soccer with the more frustrated administrative challenges of a volunteer organization.
Historically, it is difficult to find enough volunteers to coach the younger teams for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is that parents do not feel like they are qualified. To alleviate their feeling of inadequacies, I proposed that we create a Coaching Clinic with PSTs/job aids that would help them learn the techniques and boost their confidence along the way.
Based on my objectives, I created a job aid for a soccer throw in. During, my pilot I received a great deal of feedback from my target population (parents) and also from various board members. So much, in fact, that I had to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch.
The final product was a success and I was even asked to present my finding to the board at one of their meetings. One board member even suggested that I run for their Training Officer vacancy!
This course will help me in my future endeavors to volunteer as a board member and coach when we transfer home. This course also validates what we already do in the Navy; we call our PST’s Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs and every job should have one. The techniques I learned in this course will allow me to be more inventive and creative in the fulfillment of this requirement.
I chose this as my 2nd year out of class artifact because my husband and I actually used this concept and it was incredible. In the beginning, we conducted our “clinics” during regular practices. About half a dozen teams, besides the two we were coaching, participated. These were all first timers; parents who were volunteering to coach for the first time.
We set up different stations that provided the coaches and players alike with the correct technique of various components. They were able to practice and ask questions until they felt comfortable enough to move onto the next station. It wasn’t long before they were running their own practices and coaching their own games on the weekends.
It would have been even more successful if we could have had more than just one job aid available. We are looking forward to continuing our “clinics” when we transfer.
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During this class, our biggest assignment was the development of a Performance Support Tool (PST), or a job aid. It was required that be something useful and beneficial to us and/or others. So, I took this opportunity to incorporate my love of soccer with the more frustrated administrative challenges of a volunteer organization.
Historically, it is difficult to find enough volunteers to coach the younger teams for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is that parents do not feel like they are qualified. To alleviate their feeling of inadequacies, I proposed that we create a Coaching Clinic with PSTs/job aids that would help them learn the techniques and boost their confidence along the way.
Based on my objectives, I created a job aid for a soccer throw in. During, my pilot I received a great deal of feedback from my target population (parents) and also from various board members. So much, in fact, that I had to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch.
The final product was a success and I was even asked to present my finding to the board at one of their meetings. One board member even suggested that I run for their Training Officer vacancy!
This course will help me in my future endeavors to volunteer as a board member and coach when we transfer home. This course also validates what we already do in the Navy; we call our PST’s Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs and every job should have one. The techniques I learned in this course will allow me to be more inventive and creative in the fulfillment of this requirement.
2nd Year Out of Class Artifact
I chose this as my 2nd year out of class artifact because my husband and I actually used this concept and it was incredible. In the beginning, we conducted our “clinics” during regular practices. About half a dozen teams, besides the two we were coaching, participated. These were all first timers; parents who were volunteering to coach for the first time.
We set up different stations that provided the coaches and players alike with the correct technique of various components. They were able to practice and ask questions until they felt comfortable enough to move onto the next station. It wasn’t long before they were running their own practices and coaching their own games on the weekends.
It would have been even more successful if we could have had more than just one job aid available. We are looking forward to continuing our “clinics” when we transfer.
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