Listen back on workshops, discussions, and focus groups from Quidditch Australia’s Strategic Forum, held at Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre in February 2020.
Alison Newton presents a draft strategic plan to encapsulate everything that has been discussed over the forum, the group provides feedback, and we draw to a conclusion.
5 May 2020
Session 6. Professional Project Proposals (Workshop)
Eleonora discusses how to make your event look more professional to external organisations with project proposals.
5 May 2020
Session 5.3. Player Retention (Workshop)
Having discussed Branding and Recruitment, Ajantha leads discussion on what makes people stay in the sport and what makes people leave, in order to interrogate how best to improve retention in the sport.
5 May 2020
Session 5.2. Player Recruitment (Workshop)
Ajantha discusses how to take your club's brand and advertise it to recruit new members. The group does some brainstorming about recruitment at different levels and various challenges that teams face.
5 May 2020
Session 5.1. Building a Brand (Workshop)
Ajantha discusses ideas around branding, how to brand quidditch, how to brand a club, and looks at examples from existing clubs around the world. We also look at some social-media do's and don'ts from Tegan Diep.
5 May 2020
Session 2.5. Referee Support (Open Space)
For the final Open Space Discussion, Maria leads discussion around refereeing, how to bring in more new referees, and how to improve the standard and experience of referees.
For Open Space Discussion 4, Courtney brings the focus to creating resources to help develop skills in volunteers like coaches, and the group has a broader discussion around volunteer recruitment and upskilling in general.
5 May 2020
Session 2.3. Youth Leagues and Recruitment (Open Space)
For Open Space Discussion 3, Kelsey brings the focus to developing youth leagues as a source of long term recruitment, and the group discusses recruitment and outreach activities generally.
5 May 2020
Session 2.2. Money & Fundraising (Open Space)
For Open Space Discussion 2, Logan brings the focus to money, grants, and fundraising for quidditch.
5 May 2020
Session 2.1. Open Space Introduction & Change the Name
Jamie introduces Open Space Technology, the group comes up with five major strategic focuses for QA over the next five years, and we have a focused discussion around the first - changing the name of quidditch.
5 May 2020
Session 1.3. Creating a Vision Statement
Having discussed values and our vision, the group tries to come up with a single ‘tag-line’ type statement to encapsulate these ideas, that might serve as Quidditch Australia’s vision statement. Listen to our discussion and see what we came up with.
5 May 2020
Session 1.2. Values & Vision
The group brainstorms values associated with quidditch, the idea being to understand what was important and valuable about quidditch that we should try and maintain in the organisation and community in years to come. We then also began brainstorming our vision for the organisation - where we wanted to see quidditch in five years.
25 Apr 2020
Session 1.1 - Welcome & Introductions
Alison introduces herself and the ideas and purpose behind the forum. The group then goes around and introduces themselves with a discussion about what attracted them to quidditch and why they have stayed in the sport, as a lead into the next discussion around values in the sport.
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