Leading Australian Sport Administration Company, Terry Dillon Solutions (TDS), proved to be a hit with local participants over the weekend.
Directors Terry Dillon and Chris Connolly were on a three-day mission to share their insights on sport administration, coaching and media and marketing opportunities.
Dillon and Connolly both have similar backgrounds and enjoy illustrious careers in the highest levels of sports in Australia.
The participants were taught to manage sporting clubs in their various communities, to keep it up and running and to share the load to every community member.
Dillon made it clear that one member of the club must not do more than one responsibility.
He further went on to say most clubs don’t succeed in getting revenue or help from the community because they do not know how to ask.
The three-day course taught participants that making a successful team is everyone’s business and not only one or two people.
Dillon said that when other members of the community see how hard one person works to lift the profile of the club they shy away from assigned duties because they don’t want to work too hard.
He was anxious when he discovered that local clubs in PNG are not run like small businesses and instead survive on one-off corporate sponsorships year in and year out.
Dillon made an important comment on community sports clubs, saying they must be run like businesses because that’s the only way they can make funds available for themselves.
