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New Management Structure- Your Questions answered part 4

By info@wellingtonbowling.club Wellington BC

Saturday, 1 February 2020

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We're delighted with the number of questions coming in regarding the new management structure. Please fill in and submit the form below if you've any questions. Part 4 of our series below.

Q12. Who will represent our ladies now the Ladies Administrator position is being disestablished? I would have preferred to retain this position on the Executive and create a Men’s Administrator position to represent our men.

  • Several issues here. We are a mixed club; we don’t have a ladies or men’s section. The name Ladies Administrator is an anachronism that doesn’t really have a place in a forward-looking 21st-century sports club. We should avoid gender-specific roles, though there clearly remains, for example, a role for men’s and ladies team captain. The work the Ladies Administrator does, fulfils an important and valuable role on the Executive. As does the Secretary and Development Officer. The work of these three roles will be divided between the newly created sector managers, indeed the proposal document recommends the creation of a “Home Games Teas Allocator” as part of the Functions Manager’s sub-committee. If created this role will take on an important part of the Ladies Administrator’s role.
    Most clubs do not have a Ladies (or men’s) Administrator position (or similar).

Q13. You have mentioned in the past the possibility of the club purchasing some IT software and hardware to reduce the administrative burden. Is there any news on this?

  • There are packages out there which I am investigating. These have been designed for indoor clubs but increasingly are being used by outdoor clubs. There is a cost to these and they are not cheap, but the price is falling. As well as an initial outlay for the hardware there is a fixed monthly cost for the software licence, it is these fixed costs that the club is, at present, reluctant to commit to. Once the new Executive is formed, we may be in a position to revisit this. As more clubs take on these services the price will come down, and there are cheaper alternatives coming to the market all the time. One company in particular, Bespoke for Business Software Solutions Ltd want to visit us and demonstrate their system called Bowlr, which, were we to purchase the full package, would automate the Membership, Financial system, Website, Rink Bookings, Indoor Leagues and indoor and outdoor knockout competitions administration. Members who would like more information on this should visit this website https://www.bowlr.co.uk/

Q14. What will happen if the EGM votes against this proposal?

  • I’m not sure to be honest. What I do know is that we can’t go on as we are with no Secretary. It is the Secretary role which is the main driver behind this project, we need to distribute this work more equally between other members, that is the reason behind the four sectors. Ultimately the club will fold if no one is prepared to take on these essential jobs. Realistically that is unlikely to happen and the club would probably muck along being managed by a handful of members. It is the opinion of both the Executive and General Committees that now is an ideal opportunity to restructure the club the move forward in a healthier and more efficient manner.

Q15. You’ve been blethering on about restructuring the General Committee for much longer than we’ve not had a Secretary.

  • As I said in an earlier answer it remains my opinion that the General Committee is too large to be effective. Most of the Executive and General Committee members feel the same way. This proposal aims to create more focussed small sub-committees, concentrating on specific areas of the general running of the club. We want the sub-committees to effectively take over the day to day running of the club. This should leave the Executive to concentrate on strategy and “big picture” issues.

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