I thought I would detail some concrete suggestions to respond to the primary customers of karting. The approach could be made by the AKA(Aust), the state associations or individual clubs.
There are five basic questions that need to be answered:
What does karting look, feel and smell like in five to ten years? What do the various stakeholders experience? The Future Vision.
What does karting look, feel and smell like today? What do stakeholders currently experience? How much and what sort of pain are stakeholders experiencing? The Current State?
What is the gap between the two? How big is the gap? What sort of change process is required? Developmental, transitional or transformational? How much time do we have to get to the future? What is diving the change? Is internally or externally driven or a combination?
Where do current stakeholders sit; for or against the Current State and the Future Vision? What would move them to be not against change at a minimum? The Stakeholder Analysis.
Develop in detail the Change Plan.
My historical bias is that of a top down bottom up change process. But for this to work the top has to be feeling some pain to want to change!
Food for thought.
Regards. David
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Hello David, welcome back.
We did the exercise you are talking about in July 2003. Colin Osborne, then CAMS President, was the facilitator. We were also encouraged by the Australian Sports Commission to rejig our constitution, abolish the Council and elect a skills based board of directors.
We put the first draft best management practice model on the table in November 2003. Karters were the voters in that iteration because karters fund the organisation. By early 2005, we had 5 votes to 2 to move to a company limited by guarantee under the bmp model but with clubs as voters. Most of us can live with that.
Between then and the end of 2007, there were sticking point clauses to iron out and I had the NKC agree on the last of them in November 2007.
Meanwhile, Max Laybutt and I went headhunting in own backyard, the wider karting fratenity, and we had over 40 expressions of interest given to us answering to the skills sets required by each of the particular board portfolios.
In 2008, the NKC decided it, not the clubs, would elect the first board. I objected but we carried on. Then they wanted a formguide so they could assess each candidate. So we sorted that with an HR consultant but then that fell apart.
And so it stands there; the constitution is approved and all that's required is for the CLG to be incorporated, I probably still have the forms, and then the election can be held and the board installed.
Thereafter, the NKC has gone through a few other options, including, without telling their states, that they were going to install themselves as the board. Yes, the very ones who have done no planning ever and are responsible for all the mismanagement and goverance want to individually exercise the powers they currently 'enjoy' as mere delegates of their states. Appalling.
But, and significantly, they did not even get a seconder to rescind the motion accepting the bmp model and it therefore remains on foot.
You say elsewhere that you have learned the movement must come from the grass roots and you are right. Have a look at Steve O'Neil's thread on voting. A small number of clubs across the country could force the AKA to implement the bmp model and the association can move on.
Barring that, then like in Qld now, the retreat in numbers is only a matter of time.
What is the biggest problem with getting Governance approved if the karters want. Cannot the delegetes be held accountable if they do not follow directions given by there state or am i misreading things. Please remember i am only a Queenslander. But as Greame says the sport is going backwards at a fair rate. If we have to pay People with skills to make this work so be it, how much has been shelled out for the CMC timing and Smart Cards. Just my thoughts. Mick
Maybe what we need is for someone that actually knows the ropes (that excludes me and about 90% of contributors), to formulate a motion for ALL OF US to take to our clubs AT THE SAME TIME, right across Australia. If there are boobytraps built into the motion to prevent it being shelved or sanitized, and if everyone makes some calls (to stack the numbers) and then follows through and actually turns up to a club meeting, then maybe we can get rid of the 'rudderless' brigade.
Only after we get rid of the self serving despots and install those with skill, talent, ability and desire to make this sport what it truly can be, will we have any chance of heading the sport in the right direction.
Good call ..
This seems an extremely good suggestion. I would suggest that it start with a specific subject that I believe a lot of affiliated members have a substantial interest in; the CMS system. I suggest a motion that requires an independent forensic audit of the implementation of the computer systems by a reputable consulting firm like Delloites or Coopers. The should include the requirement for the distribution of the audit findings to be made available to all affiliated state associations, clubs and club members.
This would give all agood understanding of how the AKA(Aust) is managing a substantial and controversial issue for all karters. I would be happy to be reassured that this process has been appropriately and effectively managed.
The motion needs to be well written with specific timelines and appropriate scope.
Any legal eagles out there who could draft something?
This motion would need to be taken to each club meeting across the country, then to the state associations and then by state association reps to AKA(Aust)
Regards. David
Steve O'Neil said:
Maybe what we need is for someone that actually knows the ropes (that excludes me and about 90% of contributors), to formulate a motion for ALL OF US to take to our clubs AT THE SAME TIME, right across Australia. If there are boobytraps built into the motion to prevent it being shelved or sanitized, and if everyone makes some calls (to stack the numbers) and then follows through and actually turns up to a club meeting, then maybe we can get rid of the 'rudderless' brigade.
Only after we get rid of the self serving despots and install those with skill, talent, ability and desire to make this sport what it truly can be, will we have any chance of heading the sport in the right direction.
Mick,
We don't have to pay; the people we headhunted would do it for the good of the sport. And that is commonplace in sports boards: voluntary yet highly skilled directors.
Steve,
I will draft a letter that any club member can send to his club which then becomes 'correspondence in'. Then those in attendance at the next meeting can vote that the club's SKC delegate vote for it at the State's next SKC meeting and so on.
Graeme, Any progress on the motion? Regards. David
Graeme Hancock said:
Mick,
We don't have to pay; the people we headhunted would do it for the good of the sport. And that is commonplace in sports boards: voluntary yet highly skilled directors.
Steve,
I will draft a letter that any club member can send to his club which then becomes 'correspondence in'. Then those in attendance at the next meeting can vote that the club's SKC delegate vote for it at the State's next SKC meeting and so on.
Hello David,
Sorry for the delay. If you go to www.rvengines.com you can download a suitable letter in 'word' which can then be completed and sent to your club secretary.
Whilst one letter sent to one club in each of four states would potentially see a majority vote to implement the national best management constitution, the more karters that send such a letter to their club, the better.
Good luck.
So has anybody going to take this to there members would be ashame not to do something about it I will definately show this to karters when I race at Albany in 2 weeks
Graeme Hancock said:
Hello David,
Sorry for the delay. If you go to www.rvengines.com you can download a suitable letter in 'word' which can then be completed and sent to your club secretary.
Whilst one letter sent to one club in each of four states would potentially see a majority vote to implement the national best management constitution, the more karters that send such a letter to their club, the better.
Good luck.
I have ...so join me if you think this is what we need to better the administration .....!
So is the aim of the letter to simply have a club Delegate take it to the State Council, then have the State Council forward it to the AKA and if the numbers are right, the bmp is adopted?
I see, so the more karters that send a letter to their club(s) and/or the more clubs that 'demand' it be implemented now, the better?