Building a Club Culture of Thriving, Not Just Surviving (Row BC Webinar)
Club and Professional Development Workshops Wednesday April 29 2020 @2:00 pm Collaborate Webinar Link HERE Running and sustaining a club can be exhausting and unrelenting. The same, aging group of volunteers raise their hands for an increasing number of tasks. The work is complex, and the maintenance never ends. Rowing as a sport can also be exhausting, relentless and unforgiving. Injury and/or burnout are common outcomes. For club leaders, coaches, and rowers alike, it is important to learn how to ‘thrive’ not just ‘survive’ in…
Building a Culture of “Winning with Benefits”, not Winning at all Costs (Rowing BC webinar)
ROWING BC CLUB DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 2020 @2:00 PM DR. JEN WALINGA WEBINAR RECORDING LINK HERE Too often, winning can become the only focus in sport at the expense of other important goals and values. It is also easy to believe that we have to resort to a ‘win at all costs’ mentality in order to achieve gold medals. However, winning and more is possible, and more probable, without resorting to harmful practices in sport. During this interactive workshop you will: Explore the…
Winning Better: Cases of Cultural Transformation in Sport and Coaching (RRU Webinar)
Ultimately, all organizations are socio-technical systems in which the manner of external adaptation and the solution of internal integration problems are interdependent” (2004, 186). According to Schein and others, culture stems from underlying assumptions and beliefs which are represented through the values expressed, communicated, or enacted via any number and type of artifacts including structures, processes, systems, design, texts, and imagery. In our study of high performing sport organizations and teams, a key feature was that the team was led and facilitated by their coach,…
