What do you believe your
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:27 am
Trying something new
As we were coming up to September, we took this opportunity to do something we’ve never done before. I had individual meetings with everyone where I asked them things like how their have kids done over summer, aspirations and goals for September, do you have restrictions on what age you can work with, etc. What they didn’t know about were the extra few questions I threw at them.
The first question was “ job position is here?” And this stumped them way more than I thought it would. I had a tick box list to see if they would come up with the same criteria that was expected of them. This included obvious points such as teaching gymnastics, creating lesson plans, attending meetings and regular training, and communicating france rcs data with parents. We got there with everyone eventually but because of the order they said their duties, we saw their priorities and it gave us a better understanding of how their different personality types work.
Question two was “What do you believe a coach in this position should be doing that we don’t ask of you?” So where do you think our club is lacking and where should be putting in extra duties? Again, we got some interesting insights.
The third question was “What do you believe you do that we don’t notice?” which ties in with the running joke around here – “Fiona sees everything!” We had a younger coach who’s 16 speak up – she felt like she didn’t get appreciation for recent work she did that wasn’t actually teaching gymnastics. Of course, we did appreciate her work, told her how wonderful it was and gave her credit but the fact that not every coach saw her that way was eye-opening.
Lots of other coaches had similar ideas for this question too. Our club’s director is phenomenal and orchestrates to the best quantity you can imagine but when she comes in she’s grabbing a coach from there and here and she said, “I don’t always think you see just how chaotic it is.”
As we were coming up to September, we took this opportunity to do something we’ve never done before. I had individual meetings with everyone where I asked them things like how their have kids done over summer, aspirations and goals for September, do you have restrictions on what age you can work with, etc. What they didn’t know about were the extra few questions I threw at them.
The first question was “ job position is here?” And this stumped them way more than I thought it would. I had a tick box list to see if they would come up with the same criteria that was expected of them. This included obvious points such as teaching gymnastics, creating lesson plans, attending meetings and regular training, and communicating france rcs data with parents. We got there with everyone eventually but because of the order they said their duties, we saw their priorities and it gave us a better understanding of how their different personality types work.
Question two was “What do you believe a coach in this position should be doing that we don’t ask of you?” So where do you think our club is lacking and where should be putting in extra duties? Again, we got some interesting insights.
The third question was “What do you believe you do that we don’t notice?” which ties in with the running joke around here – “Fiona sees everything!” We had a younger coach who’s 16 speak up – she felt like she didn’t get appreciation for recent work she did that wasn’t actually teaching gymnastics. Of course, we did appreciate her work, told her how wonderful it was and gave her credit but the fact that not every coach saw her that way was eye-opening.
Lots of other coaches had similar ideas for this question too. Our club’s director is phenomenal and orchestrates to the best quantity you can imagine but when she comes in she’s grabbing a coach from there and here and she said, “I don’t always think you see just how chaotic it is.”