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About The PCT Process:
The PCT process is a set of methods that help
Organizations, Coaches, Parents and especially Players to more
greatly enjoy youth sports. You may wish to examine the Glossary
of Terms as a starting point for studying the PCT process.
Glossary of PCT Terms-
The list of terms used to describe and discuss the PCT process.
Frequently Asked Questions-
The list of questions commonly asked by Coach and parents.
The process helps everyone involved
to focus effort towards the stated goals of the team and greater
Organization. The primary mechanism is a recurring "loop of feedback"
which
is
made available to everyone involved, such that they can learn,
gain insight and adapt.
The PCT process is a simple meeting. The meeting
has specific Roles, Tasks and Boundaries. The PCT process allows
Coaches to easily conduct a periodic meeting with
Parents. The meeting is a very short,
recurring meeting that generates Parent-group feedback for the
Coach to receive. The PCT Process also requires Coaches
to provide "Followup" feedback to
Parents. Parents, Coaches and Players use this feedback to
learn and adapt as the season progresses.
If you follow the simple process, you'll experience
real, measureable results after about 3 meetings. It takes a
few meeting to get the hang of it.
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here to dive into the details.
How it Works
A Youth Sports organization
is actually a complete "complex adaptive system", with
groups of Players, Parents, Coaches and Organizational leadership.
All
these groups
act independently,
and are directly and indirectly always influencing each other
in very complex ways.
Figure 1: A Youth Sports System
FIGURE 01: Youth Sports is a system of interacting
agents
The PCT Process described on this web site
can:
o Help Organizations retain membership-- and
grow, from "word-of-mouth" advertising
o Help Parents to teach and more fully develop
their Kids via Youth Sports
o Help Coaches collect and act on valuable
feedback from the entire system
o Help Kids play to the best of
their ability, by confidently assuming the single role
of Player when at practice and when playing in games.
The PCT Process focuses attention on a recurring,
periodic meeting of Coaches and Parents. This meeting is run
by the Head
Coach. Those who attend the meeting agree in advance to adhere
to specific Ground Rules. The meeting has clear Boundaries, Tasks
and Roles
for
everyone who participates. The purpose of the PCT meeting is
to generate feedback. Everyone involved can inspect the feedback,
gain insight, and adjust accordingly.
A major strength of the PCT Process is the
tendency of the process to help develop a shared understanding
of what the team is. The team is actually the product of interactions
between Coaches, Parents, Players and the Organization.
Kids quickly learn that they are in two roles:
Player, and Child. For Kids to really enjoy
sports and get the most from the experience, they need to be
able to
assume
one
role; namely, that of Player. The PCT process facilitates this
by helping Parents and Coaches to speak with one voice.
When
everyone involved is paying attention to the PCT Process, the
major benefit is a near total alignment of goals and objectives.
Coaches and Parents in particular develop a tendency to speak
with
one voice. When this happens, Kids on the team can participate
in
a single role-- Player-- and JUST PLAY. The result is healthier
Organizations, satisfaction for Coaches and Parents, and JUST
PLAIN FUN AND LEARNING for Kids.
The PCT Process is rooted in Complexity
Science.
While it is not necessary to understand this theoretical basis
to implement PCT, it is useful to know something about it before
you start.
Many of the most innovative organizations
in American business are
using
methods
based on
Complexity Science to increase productivity, adaptation and
learning. The organizations include Yahoo, Google, Microsoft,
and hundreds
of smaller companies.
The PCT Process is inspired by Scrum,
a best practice for project management now used by these
companies. Scrum can generate astonishing increases in team productivity,
by following a simple process and a short list of very specific
ground rules.
I welcome your questions as you learn more
about the PCT Process on this site.
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Dan Mezick is the originator of the PCT process.
Learn about Dan Mezick here.
Learn about how to freely use the content
of this site by examining the Contact
Us page
Are you using the PCT Process in
your Youth Sports organization? Please contact
me and tell me more-- I am keenly interested in receiving
a report of your experience with the PCT Process.
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