Reflection- Seminar Sport Psychology
Date: 21st April 2012
Time: 8 am – 4pm
Venue: Conference room, CAC, IIUM
Organizer: Me and My friends
The seminar was conducted successfully by
Sport Psychology Class. Many inputs were shared within one day of seminar on
sport psychology. I was one of the organizer committee. Even though it was
really busiest day, I still managed to grab some input and knowledge that I
want to share here.
The first session was regarding to
dietitian and nutrition. It was delivered by Madam Lee Ching Lee from
International Medical University. It was quite exciting session. She managed to
grab the audience’s attention and make the session living in the early morning.
She shared 14 messages on the diet…..nk taw ape, PM me at my FB :-)
Second session was discussing about
physiotherapy and it was delivered by Mr. Abraham. Much knowledge was discussed
and shared in that session especially regarding to injury. Many athletes get
involve in injuries and sometime it is really hard to recover. Here the role of
support and motivation from the team plays important role. Group will be
effective when there is good group structure, group dynamics and group
cohesiveness. These characteristics are essential to a coach and a team that
finally will provide good and positive outcome among members of the team. With
that, the strong team that support and help each other will exist.
The third session was conducted in forum.
The panelists that time were Mr. Chan Jun Shen and Mr. Harmi Taazim. Me? I was
one of the moderators that time. It was my first time conducting a forum.
However, what I want to share here is what the panelist shared. The topic was
sport and motivation. Mr. Chan was the
first speaker. He is an Ironman and Triathlon athlete. He shared his experienced in iron, how
stressful the sport is and etc. The most interesting part is where he had
triple time injured, and the most serious injury stops him from doing sport.
Because of his passion towards sport, he overcomes it very hardly. Many
challenges and hardship demotivate him. He said ‘usually I walk across the school field within 5-10 minutes but because
of my injury, I only managed to cross it more than 30 minutes’. In Ironman
also, he faced stressful situation where he blood vomit during the game. He
really can’t handle it anymore. However, his team did support him to finish up
till the end of the game. This is show the important of team in a sport.
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| Me and Faizah conducting Forum |
Same goes with Mr Harmi Taazim. He shared
with us from the commentator view and perspective. The most interesting story
is where the double team of badminton player dispute to each other because of a
women. However, the coach that time managed to settle the problem and make them
focus on the final Thomas Cup. Once again this story shows the important of the
coach in managing a team and how effective a coach to a team. As mentioned in the book, this coach managed
to develop morale within the team. Morale here means feeling within each team
members that is generated by a sense of caring and belonging that is
communicated within the team. Morale may generate a motivation that may direct
energy in either acceptable or unacceptable ways on the team. Sadly, the last
session I could not participate because I had to accompany the speakers for the
refreshment.
I share with you the experience during the
seminar itself. What about before the seminar? How could my team managed to
organize it? And how can I relate it with leadership effectiveness and decision
making and also organizer as an effective group? Let’s begin with the first day
of selection the committee.
The selection of the committee was
conducted in syura. It is good because we suggest the candidate and vote the
qualified one. As a result, Haire Kadari became Programme Manager and Nor
Syafiqah as Assistant Programme Manager. And me? I was appointed as Head of
Public Relation. My task was very “easy”. I had to call and invite all speakers,
VIPs and VVIPs. Huhuhu.
As usual, the program had communication
problems. For me, it was very stressful situation when someone did my job
without my acknowledgement. At the end, me and my team who suffered
enough.kuang2x. However, we managed to tackle the problems. Cooperation and
understanding between my PR members was the key we managed get through all the
problems. I tried to create sense of belonging among my team and the most
important thing, I did “group binding” among us. For me, it is important to
meet face to face to discuss and solve the problems together and it is known as
group integration. We shared our opinion and conclude it. Making decision that
been agreed among team members was essential. It leads to mutual understanding
and everyone got clear picture of the each task. The quality of decision making
should be at higher level in attaining overall goals and objectives of the
group that should considered.
Besides that, I also assigned each members
of PR to a specific job. Alhamdulillah, it helps me in handling my job. Thank God
I got good colleague. They were like a professional worker which had more than
5 years’ experience. Supposedly I divide the task as early as I can and it was
my mistake because take it too long. Leadership within the group is important
to a team because it lets the members inside it acknowledge their role and they
feel appreciated because they are given a trust to do the task.
On the other hand, feedback is also
important in organizing an event. Without it, we don’t know the exact weakness
and limitation that we are supposed to encounter before the big day. For example,
I once asking my PR members regarding the attendance of VIP, however, they
could not get the feedback as we planned because all the VIPs were busy and
hardly to provide the accurate response. Sometimes, they changed their plan
from not attending to attending. It makes our task become more difficult to
confirm the exact total who attends for the seminar. In short, providing
feedback is essential to committee because we can utilize the information and
prepare what is supposed to be prepared.
Other than that, time constraint also
became one of the challenges when we preparing for this event. Because of it, most of us had to do critical
decision to solve a problem. Limitation of the time make the movement of committee
a little bit exhausted the day before of the programme. Many things had to be
prepared within a limit time. And some of the jobs that were distributed could
not be done. For example, sponsorship cannot find a company who willing to
support our programme. According to procedure, the duration to get the sponsor
from outside is 3-4month before the programme. However, our seminar on sport
psychology was managed only within 2 month.
The best part that I will never and ever
regret is the experience. It is really hard to conduct a big event with 300 participants
within 2 months. It takes a lot of effort to make it happened. Besides that, me
myself also gain new experience in handling outsider and VVIP in terms of the
procedure, the way we talk with them, what should we provide to them and etc.
it is totally different with Taaruf Week that I became Head of PC. In addition,
I also had a chance to know the whole members of the sport psychology class. In
other sections, it is really hard to recognize people inside the class and
sometimes I don’t realize that person is also in the same class with me. The most interesting part is, this seminar test us with how to cooperate,
work together and communicate with 41 people inside the class that have
different personality, different views, different experiences and different
principles.
Last but not least, before I stop my
reflection, I would like take this opportunity to say thank you to my
colleague, PR, who did a great job back day, and make the seminar, happened successfully.
I know that most of them busy with another assignment, homework and etc., but
they managed to handle it very well. Well done PR!!! Finally, the one and only
one, we called her as our mother…DR HARIYATI SHAHRIMA for giving us this
experience….
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| We Love Sport Psychology |
Best regards,
Syahman
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