00.35 -01.15: The Club values in practice
Suppose the 3-5 core values are included in your club’s policy. How do you actually implement those values in specific settings within the club. Name behaviour.
Activating exercise 4b3: The behavioural matrix
Participants make desired behaviour explicit. The desired behavioural expectations are drawn up on the basis of the core values. These behavioural expectations are developed for all areas of the club. The behavioural expectations are formulated positively. Drawing up a behavioural matrix is a useful tool in this regard.
What do you need?
– a space where people can walk around freely
– sufficiently printed matrixes (see materials)
What should you do?
– Participants write the three most important core values of the previous exercise in the top bar of the matrix
– Divide the group into subgroups of 3-4 people
– Let the subgroups think of a number of settings within the club, where the athletes are regularly located, such as the canteen, the dressing room, field/hall/… during training, field/room/… during a match, etc.
– Each subgroup chooses a setting in which they name concrete desirable behaviour related to the core values. For example: Core value ‘Responsibility’ and Setting ‘the Training’ > desired behaviour: being present at the training on time.
– Each group comes up with three ‘desirable behaviours’ for each core value.
– Plenary presentation of the desired behaviours per group.
– Discuss the results: are these proposals realistic? Is anyone missing something within the suggested behaviours?
Trainer’s advice
– You can do this session with any group within the club. Young children are also very good and capable at thinking about which behaviour in which situation belongs to a certain core value
– By linking desired behaviour to a core value, you actually give practice to a core value and core values come to life within the club
– When the core values are discussed in this way within the board, a committee or a team, then responsibility arises and members of the group will correct each other.