How not to organise
October 30th 2007 15:46
Several years ago, when I was running a Men’s Group at our church - the intention was to help the men in the church get to know each other better by providing social occasions - we organised a night watching the rugby. It was one of the best attended of all the events we organised, in fact.
Unfortunately.
We’d arranged to have the event in a local pub which set aside a room (with its own bar) for us specially. There was plenty of room for the guys, and there would have been plenty for them to drink if they were of the drinking kind. Most of them might have had one drink, maybe two, but many of them don’t drink alcohol much anymore, so I don’t suppose the pub made much money out of that side of things.
The manager was supposed to have provided a large screen tv (one of those projection televisions) for the occasion. Something went wrong with their planning, and in the end all they could manage was an ordinary-sized tv stuck in one corner of the room.
If you’ve ever seen forty or fifty guys trying to watch the same game on a very small screen you’ll have some idea what it was like, and how ineffective it was in terms of rousing up the group. Certainly people watched and there was enthusiasm, but it would have been a heck of lot better if we’d had the machine we’d planned on!
Unfortunately.
We’d arranged to have the event in a local pub which set aside a room (with its own bar) for us specially. There was plenty of room for the guys, and there would have been plenty for them to drink if they were of the drinking kind. Most of them might have had one drink, maybe two, but many of them don’t drink alcohol much anymore, so I don’t suppose the pub made much money out of that side of things.
The manager was supposed to have provided a large screen tv (one of those projection televisions) for the occasion. Something went wrong with their planning, and in the end all they could manage was an ordinary-sized tv stuck in one corner of the room.
If you’ve ever seen forty or fifty guys trying to watch the same game on a very small screen you’ll have some idea what it was like, and how ineffective it was in terms of rousing up the group. Certainly people watched and there was enthusiasm, but it would have been a heck of lot better if we’d had the machine we’d planned on!
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