School Sport Partnerships

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School Sport Partnerships

• School Sport Coordinators
• November 20th 2007
• Robin Pellatt

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Activity
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Objective

• Developing advocacy and strategies for managing
  persistent challenges

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Scenarios

• See printed sheets

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Edward de Bono Six Thinking Hats thinking tool

• White Hat Information / Facts What do you
  know, what do you need to know, how will you find
  out?
• Yellow Hat Benefits / Positives Say what you
  see that is positive or a benefit in this
  situation.
• Black Hat Caution / Weaknesses Point out any
  potential problems.
• Red Hat Feelings / Emotions What do you feel
  about the situation in the scenario?
• Green Hat Creativity / Alternatives What
  possibilities, new ideas, alterations could
  improve the issue?
• Blue Hat Organisation thinking / thinking about
  thinking What do you need to think about next?
  What will you do next?

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SCAMPER thinking tool

• S substitute
• C combine
• A adapt
• M modify
• P put to other purpose
• E eliminate
• R - reverse

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Plus Minus Interesting (PMI, one of the CoRT
thinking tools)

• Plus - what things are positive or good?
• Minus - what things are not positive or are bad?
• Interesting - what things are interesting and
  could be developed further?
• There are a range of CoRT thinking tools
• PMI Plus Minus Interesting
• FIP First Important Priority
• CAF Consider All Factors
• CS Consequences and Sequel
• AGO Aims Goals Objectives
• APC - Alternatives Possibilities and Choices
• OPV Other Peoples Views

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The 5 Ws

• Who? who will be involved, be affected by, come
  into contact with, benefit from, not be involved?
• What? what is it for, what does it do, what
  else could be done, what could be changed?
• Why? why is the issue important, why does it
  have to be addressed in this way?
• Where? where might it be addressed, where else
  might it be addressed, where else does it exist?
• When? when might it take place, when might it
  also take place?
• (How? may also be used as, in what way?)

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Five Whys
Too few girls engage in physical activities
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Long term planning tool (1)

• Stand back from the issue, be objective
• Look for common ground
• Focus on the positives of successful partnerships
  not the negatives of unsuccessful partnerships
• Ensure communication is positive and supportive

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Long term planning tool (2)

• Keep phoning back
• Acknowledge the H/T and staff are busy people
• Have something you can offer that wont cost them
  any time or money and can be implemented quickly
• Follow up and implement quickly