Planning & Organisation Skills
Encourage your Sports Leaders to:
- Look at some very basic session plans that you could produce as
an example of planning skills.
- Produce three spider diagrams to identify areas that need
to be organised and planned for prior to leading an activity
(people, environment and equipment).
- Think about how long it could take them to plan an activity so
they could agree a deadline for being ready to lead.
- Utilise a wide range of recording methods when constructing a
plan such as pictorial or verbal recordings.
- Consider factors that might prevent their sessions from running
as smoothly as planned.
Some thoughts:
- Your Sports Leaders could use a buddy, fellow leader or
teaching assistant to write up plans.
- Filming your Sports Leaders can help them to evaluate their own
performance.
Activities to demonstrate planning and organisation
skills:
- Games that involve team challenges (for example, those
that involve crossing an imaginary shark infested river) will
almost always contain elements of planning, performing and
evaluating. Ensure a debrief at the end of the game that identifies
and acknowledges these processes, and highlights how important they
are when organising an activity.
- Give your leaders some simple playground games to lead, with
the key focus being how they can plan and organise the activity. It
might be beneficial to try to use games that are based on chance
rather than skill such as the Detectives Game (see below).
View a video
clip of a target based game being planned and organised that is
simple to produce, but very effective in developing leadership
skills.
Detectives Game
