Always listen to the feedback of your members; whether it be open age or listening to the voice of the child!
Sometimes we can think things are going great or there aren't any changes needed; but if you ask for feedback you will often get some great suggestions and ultimately enhance your engagement because people feel listened to.
Recently, the league I run, Liverpool Old Boys Amateur League, we did a mid-season survey of clubs to see how they were finding the season and what they would like to see change/introduced to the league. We had a brilliant suggestion back about having roving reporters around the grounds doing match reports to raise the profile of the league. I've since gone away and set up a link with Liverpool John Moores University's Journalism department and now have 4 enthusiastic young football reporters going around grounds each week doing match reports, post match interviews and YouTube highlights.
Another suggestion we had 12 months ago was more transparency on Cup Draws. So this season we have filmed them all at a local club and put them on our YouTube channel; promoting them to clubs, players and referees to get interest; they've gone down very well and given clubs transparency on draws as they wanted.
These two alone have been a great addition and all came from asking for feedback and ideas!
Always listen to the feedback of your members; whether it be open age or listening to the voice of the child!
Sometimes we can think things are going great or there aren't any changes needed; but if you ask for feedback you will often get some great suggestions and ultimately enhance your engagement because people feel listened to.
Recently, the league I run, Liverpool Old Boys Amateur League, we did a mid-season survey of clubs to see how they were finding the season and what they would like to see change/introduced to the league. We had a brilliant suggestion back about having roving reporters around the grounds doing match reports to raise the profile of the league. I've since gone away and set up a link with Liverpool John Moores University's Journalism department and now have 4 enthusiastic young football reporters going around grounds each week doing match reports, post match interviews and YouTube highlights.
Another suggestion we had 12 months ago was more transparency on Cup Draws. So this season we have filmed them all at a local club and put them on our YouTube channel; promoting them to clubs, players and referees to get interest; they've gone down very well and given clubs transparency on draws as they wanted.
These two alone have been a great addition and all came from asking for feedback and ideas!
