No one signs up to volunteer expecting to do it all. Yet somehow, that’s exactly what is happening in local sport clubs all over Australia.
You know the volunteers we mean. The ones who everyone messages with their queries. The ones who do all the leftover jobs. The ones cajoling, rallying, and coaxing as much engagement, commitment, and passion as possible across the membership.
The good news is it’s time to set the over-worked volunteers free.
The Play-Maker era has begun.
Play-Maker Clubs get all members making plays
Imagine if all your members were doing their bit to build your club. They’d chip in to help, get involved in social events, and be passionate about your sport. Gone are the days when volunteers and members were like two different people groups in your club – the lifters and the leaners. In the Play-Maker era, everyone’s a doer.
But you can’t create a club full of play-makers without the Play-Maker Clubs App.
The Play-maker Clubs App helps you spread the workload to more people, turn chat into action, and make members feel excited and engaged. It sets over-worked volunteers free, and gets everyone making plays.
How It Works
The Play-maker Clubs App is a gamified platform for club management, volunteering, and communication. It helps your club make three critical plays:
Play #1: Set your overworked-volunteers free
We start by making life easier for key leaders.
The committee Club Hub structures everything so that one person is no longer responsible on their own. It creates freedom from everything being in only one person’s head, freedom from chasing up people to do the things they said, and freedom from just doing jobs yourself because they’re too hard to delegate.
The Club Hub feature:
- Gets everything out of your head onto a shareable, 12-Month Map of your club’s programs, projects, and tasks
- Automatically notifies people when their tasks are due so that you don’t feel like a nag
- Chunks roles into projects and then tasks, with templates, handover documents, and ‘how to’ guides, so that multiple people can ‘chip in’ without starting from scratch or feeling like one job is too big
Set your over-worked volunteers free by using the Play-Maker Club Hub as your single, centralised, status-map for your club programs, projects, and procedures.
Play #2: Make war on unproductive chat
Social chat apps aren’t designed to get stuff done – you need something that turns chat into action!
Our Action Chat feature makes it easier to delegate by eliminating unresolved-question chats, irrelevant-mute-causing chats, and yes-I’ll-do-it-(but-you’ll-have-to-chase-me-up) chats.
Instead of using social chat apps where a lack of concrete answers ends with you doing nearly everything yourself, use Action Chat technology.
The Action Chat feature:
- Turns comments into trackable actions with a responsible person, deadline, and automated task reminder
- Keeps chats relevant, clean, and organised by assigning people to a chat thread based on their involvement in the project or task
- Makes each match-day/event operations smooth by creating an Action Chat to contain customisable task lists, procedures, and status updates
If you just want talk, use a social chat app, if you want talk AND ACTION, use the Play-Maker Action Chat.
Play #3: Recruit Play-Makers to build your club on and off the field
We’ve saved our biggest revolution until last! The Play-Maker Game creates friendly competition to get people chipping in, engaging with each other, and having fun while building your club. We’ve gamified the critical acts of volunteering, practicing your sport, and attending club events so that members, parents, and friends get more involved and excited about being a part of your club.
The Play-Maker Game feature:
- Provides an immersive virtual gaming experience for your members: including a Play-Maker league ladder, with weekly Play-Maker matches, a 7-day countdown clock, scoreboard, and live score updates every time someone completes volunteer tasks, practices at home, or attends club functions.
- Makes volunteers the heroes too with the exhilarating ‘timed-match’ format that creates urgency, team spirit, and connection among parents, players, and members
- Shares the unassigned, incomplete tasks so members and parents can easily put their hand up to help – and score points for their team in the process!
Score points, create banter, and recognise legends with the Play-Maker Game.
Join the Play-Maker Clubs Revolution Now!
We’re currently inviting clubs to become a Foundation Member of the Play-Maker Club. You’ll get 12-months of unrestricted FREE access to our platform and other unique benefits!
Play-Maker App rollout timeline:
- Club Hub – Available Now!
- Action Chat – Browser version expected in November, downloadable App anticipated in February
- Play-Maker Game – Browser version expected in November, downloadable App anticipated in February
Benefits of Foundation Membership:
- 12-months of unrestricted free access to the Play-Maker Clubs App for an unlimited number of membersÂ
- Be one of the first clubs in your area to provide the Play-Maker experience to your people
- Human (non-automated) support to get started
- Invitation and free access to our inaugural Play-Maker Clubs Conference
Frequently Asked Questions
Volunteer-based community sports clubs (any sport, any location).
