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#Post#: 290--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 16, 2014, 6:24 am
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As far as trusting a volunteer, I did the results for all events
for two years, including coding html and posting. So yes I
would, can't do any worse than paid staff. Secondly brackets
were also kept at head table with Bill. I was blessed with
keeping them current. Those could be scanned or photographed.
I agree Jeanna will never do it. It is also important to the
kids and parents so alternative ways need to be explored. And
with results affecting selection procedures, they are an
official record. The point is that results have been done and
posted for well over a decade and under more trying
circumstances. I did them in my apartment by myself with a list
from ustu for two years. Point of newspaper story is that it is
a way to get done thing up as that paper was oversized and
taking a photo worked. Taking your scenario, Travis has been
gone a year, the website is a disaster and it all falls on the
ceo. He hired and trained all of them. If it is not getting
done, it is his fault. ,
#Post#: 292--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 16, 2014, 7:27 am
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In the end it doesn't matter who does it or how it get done, it
is yet another service that is necessary as it as the legal
record of the event and no one has done it. That falls on the
CEO.
#Post#: 293--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 16, 2014, 8:34 am
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Fact, at events I attended while on the BOD and not able to
referee, I assisted Bill putting these in the system as well as
manually updating the brackets kept at the table. Maybe Travis
changed this along the way.
I do know for a fact, there are many many people who would be
thrilled to help out but no one asks them. When they offer to
help unless "connected" they get rebuffed.
This is all the biggest problem, communication between staff
themselves and between staff and members and bod and everyone -
there basically isn't any.
Right this second the calendar on the USAT website says there is
an Aug 4, 2014 BOD meeting. OK - but at the last BOD meeting
they decided the last Monday of July 2014 and no meeting in
August. I verified with the person on the BOD who is not a board
member but a volunteer who does all the work that there is no
August BOD meeting. Someone who doesn't listen to the BOD
meetings might have believed that message.
Then there is the well intentioned person who is not the new
media guy who has been putting up all the wonderful feel good
pieces. No one proofed them and according to these USAT has a
new Olympic Coach - Jason Poos. It was news to Jason when I
asked him about it.
No one proofing. That is why there will be an open team trial
for 16 year olds before the Worlds Team Trials since the error
posted on the website told 16 year olds who would be 17 by
12/31/15 they could not compete as adults at Phase 2 of the
Selection Procedure. Then staff repeated this error in emails
and phone calls and suddenly one week before nationals the kids
were told - oooppps you can spend a $1000 on a plane ticket and
come - kind of like when Steven Lin was told he had a wildcard
into Team Trials 2 days before the event.
I feel for the guy, the website is a mess. It has been updated
but the job never completed by Bill who was leaving. Information
is in many cases outdated and hard to find.
And yes, I have suggested several ideas which would help. There
used to be a Publication Committee, I was chair. We put together
the magazine, we did the website and we proofread items going
out to catch mistakes. Something similar with the Media Person
overseeing the final postings would save his time and help
toward getting pertinent information out that is correct and
timely. However, no one cares. There would be no one else even
commenting on this horrendous situation except that now it
finally impacts a large number of people who want to see the
results and thanks to that old Publication Committee - results
went out almost immediately or within days rather than the
previously published months.
#Post#: 295--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: tkdmom78 Date: July 16, 2014, 10:23 am
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Over the past 6-7 years things have changed with the way
brackets are done/the tournament system. My point is that they
have been done in a timely manner by the events department on
the previous few years. So, why isn't anyone blaming the events
director this year? If she can't do the job, the CEO should be
removing her from the position. Yes, the CEO is ultimately
responsible for the staff, but what's the point of having a
director of events if they aren't held responsible for anything?
#Post#: 296--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 16, 2014, 11:03 am
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[quote author=tkdmom78 link=topic=62.msg295#msg295
date=1405524197]
Over the past 6-7 years things have changed with the way
brackets are done/the tournament system. My point is that they
have been done in a timely manner by the events department on
the previous few years. So, why isn't anyone blaming the events
director this year? If she can't do the job, the CEO should be
removing her from the position. Yes, the CEO is ultimately
responsible for the staff, but what's the point of having a
director of events if they aren't held responsible for anything?
[/quote]
First thing that will come up is that this is Jeanna's first
Nationals on her own. There were a lot of glitches. Now do you
blame someone who has not worked for USAT for about 5 years and
never was in charge of events and spent a good portion of her
previous employment in Membership? Or do you blame the person
who did the initial set preparation for the event which started
over a year ago? Or the fact there was no Director for Events
for how many months? Or do you blame the CEO who set up a
situation where pretty much saw almost 100% turnover in about 4
months? Do you blame the CEO for not providing direction while
he was traveling and not teaching people how to run the fax
machine?
Did Jeanna screw up a lot? I am sure she did. The problem is how
do you know at this point what is because she is in over her
head or because she was not trained or given the tools she
needed to do the job?
#Post#: 298--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 16, 2014, 11:22 am
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I didn't remember seeing the 2014 US Open results, the only
ones on the USAT website that I can find are from 2013. So don't
hold your breath waiting for Nationals.
#Post#: 299--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 16, 2014, 1:20 pm
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[quote author=Ladytkd link=topic=62.msg298#msg298
date=1405527772]
I didn't remember seeing the 2014 US Open results, the only
ones on the USAT website that I can find are from 2013. So don't
hold your breath waiting for Nationals.
[/quote]
Found them - Silly me, I never would have looked under an
article on the news page announcing an event that had already
taken place. I was looking under Results! I should have known
better.
HTML http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Taekwondo/Event-Calendar/2014/February/19/US-Open-Taekwondo-Championships
#Post#: 301--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: tkdmom78 Date: July 16, 2014, 10:26 pm
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Yes, I do blame Jeanna. Everyone has to have a first event,
which for her was the Open, not Nationals. She had 9 months to
prepare. There is just no excuse for not doing brackets or
posting results. None. That's her job. There is no official
training. That comes from your experience in the field. If you
don't have it, you don't deserve the job. A director shouldn't
have to come in and be trained on the basics of event
management. Can I ask who you are referring to when you say "the
person who did the initial set information for the event"? Is
that Eric? Bruce? I'm just not sure who you mean.
My questions:
1.) why weren't brackets posted in a timely manner?
2.) why weren't results entered at the event?
Bruce sucks. Plain and simple. He needs to go. The organization
will never function properly with him running it. My gripe is
that things were on the up and up when Travis was in charge, and
people b*tched and moaned about stupid stuff. He did what he
could with the materials he had available to him. Jeanna has
those same tools, but can't even do the basics and everyone
blames Bruce. I don't get it. We had a dedicated professional
who wanted to make positive changes within the company and
worked his butt off., Now we have an unqualified person running
our events. Why didn't Brice fight to keep Travis?
#Post#: 305--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 17, 2014, 10:46 am
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[quote author=tkdmom78 link=topic=62.msg301#msg301
date=1405567586]
Yes, I do blame Jeanna. Everyone has to have a first event,
which for her was the Open, not Nationals. She had 9 months to
prepare. There is just no excuse for not doing brackets or
posting results. None. That's her job. There is no official
training. That comes from your experience in the field. If you
don't have it, you don't deserve the job. A director shouldn't
have to come in and be trained on the basics of event
management. Can I ask who you are referring to when you say "the
person who did the initial set information for the event"? Is
that Eric? Bruce? I'm just not sure who you mean.
My questions:
1.) why weren't brackets posted in a timely manner?
2.) why weren't results entered at the event?
Bruce sucks. Plain and simple. He needs to go. The organization
will never function properly with him running it. My gripe is
that things were on the up and up when Travis was in charge, and
people b*tched and moaned about stupid stuff. He did what he
could with the materials he had available to him. Jeanna has
those same tools, but can't even do the basics and everyone
blames Bruce. I don't get it. We had a dedicated professional
who wanted to make positive changes within the company and
worked his butt off., Now we have an unqualified person running
our events. Why didn't Brice fight to keep Travis?
[/quote]
Jeanna answers to Bruce and she needs to be held accountable. I
can't think of an excuse for not posting the brackets. I do know
they contracted out the brackets for US Open. Love the way they
posted them and the results on a news article announcing the US
Open where no one would look. All of this typical of the way
USAT works.
In the end, Bruce is the one charged by the BOD to manage staff.
If he is not doing his job or is satisfied with her answers,
this is his personal problem should the board determine there
were issues. Problem is any decision of the board is predicated
on a majority of the independents who don't know crap about the
org let alone Nationals. Add to that the USOC frowns on
replacing your CEO close to the Pan Ams and Olympics.
As to why Bruce didn't fight harder for Travis, I don't know. I
do know it was a lot of travel and a lot of work and he can be
home more now. I also know that several state presidents
complained to me that travis had checked out months before he
left. So if his heart was not in it, trying to keep him would
have not gone well either.
#Post#: 310--------------------------------------------------
Re: USAT Website - Warm Fuzzies? New Olympic Coach
By: Ladytkd Date: July 17, 2014, 1:53 pm
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Back to Warm Fuzzies!!!! No one congratulated Olympic Coach
Poos - says so on the USAT website.
Apparently USAT has a new webmaster or just someone who is
writing warm fuzzies like today's
"
HTML http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Taekwondo/Features/2014/July/17/Bringing-Taekwondo-Everywhere."
These pieces are nice. They belong in the magazine or in a
special section of the website. Tossing them on the front page
takes away from the special when there are 5 or so posted in a
couple days. It also takes away when there is inaccurate
information - sorry Olympic Coach Jason Poos.
The thing is that most people do not go to the USAT site once a
day. As articles are added, the older ones slide down and off
the front page and few would even look on the News page or
scroll through the other announcements to find them. So chances
of those who would really like to read these articles even
seeing them, let alone reading them is small.
Create a page, or make these special and put them in the
magazine. Flooding the front page with them makes them less
special and less likely to be read. Those written about deserve
to have a place where they can send their friends and family to
read the nice pieces about them. If you don't want people to
read them, then leave it the way it is.
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