OGL 481 Pro-Seminar I:

PCA-Structural Frame Worksheet

Kiana Knox

Arizona State University

Organizational Leadership Project Management

Worksheet Objectives:

1. Describe the structural frame

2. Apply the structural frame to your personal case situation

Complete the following making sure to support your ideas and cite from the textbook and other
course materials per APA guidelines. After the peer review, you have a chance to update this and
format for your Electronic Portfolio due in Module 6.

1) Briefly restate your situation from Module 1 and your role.

The situation that I will be discussing is something I was not fully a part of but was

made aware of the situation. We had a coach that was coaching our pre-team kids and she

was coaching the kids unsafely and not following the schedule and lesson plan. She also

coached them at her own discretion. She was making promises to the kids and their

parents about things that were not true and telling them things that she should not have

said which it caused us to have a lot of angry parents. My role at Gold Medal Gymnastics

is to be one of the coaches and leaders of our rec program there. I am in charge of

managing my now class and teaching the kids new skills. I am also a part of the Devo

program at Gold medal which is just a different program that we have there. I also am in

 charge of teaching the new people we hire how we run and do things at Gold Medal or

for the people that have never coached before how to coach as well as spot kids. I am also

in charge of the Saturday crew and making sure everyone knows what they are doing and

everything is in order and solve any problems that come up on Saturday

2) Describe how the structure of the organization influenced the situation.

At Gold medal we have different lesson plans we follow for each level and have

certain skills we have to teach the gymnast. With this we still have flexibility to work on

different drills, make up stations and assignments for the girls but to an extent. We

encourage to make decisions and work on things the girls need so having that kind of

structure in place she took advantage of that and took things too far. The structure

influenced the situation because she thought since we do have some freedom she can do

whatever want and tell people whatever you want when that’s not the case.

Before her we really didn’t have to express to people what to say and what not to

say to parents because there was never a problem with people saying things they don’t

know or shouldn’t be so not having that in place, she told the parents what they wanted to

hear and made her own decisions without consulting with the pole that actually make

those decisions. So since there is some freedom and leeway about how you run your

classes this is what influenced the situation to happen.

3) Recommend how you would use structure for an alternative course of action
regarding your case.

I guess what I would do is make sure the expectations and what is allowed and not

a loud or more clear. I would also make sure I have people on my team that buy into our
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 vision and not go off on their own path. I would also make sure that everyone knows their

roles and what they are aloud to say to parents and what they aren’t. Also make sure they

know where they are in the hierarchy and that they don’t step over the line. I would make

sure that people are properly trained to handle the responsibilities they have. Really the

only thing I would recommend because Gold Medal honestly has a really good system

and structure in place she was just someone that wound buy in to our ideals, so I would

just make sure that everyone buys in and understand their roles and responsibilities.

I would also schedule a meeting with the person sooner before it gets to out of

control because we all were hesitant about her ad knew she was doing stuff that she

wasn’t supposed to but ignored it to long. When they finally had the meeting the damage

was already done and she was so disrespectful to her superiors that there was no return

for her. Maybe getting a meeting going sooner would have stopped all the chaos from

happening and maybe we would have been able to switch her perspective and keep her on

our staff.

4) Reflect on what you would do or not do differently given what you have learned
about this frame.

I personally wouldn’t do anything much different because we have a good system

and structure in place we just had someone that couldn’t buy into what we were about.

One things I would do differently and they do this with a lot of new staff members is they

put them in these high roles from the jump before we really know how they are and how

they coach and its bit us in the behind a couple times now. Instead I would start everyone

 at the same level, the bottom or the beginning and with time and hard work they can work

their way up to a higher role and more responsibilities.

I would also schedule more frequent meetings with the people that coach these kids

because it is a level that is preparation to be apart of the team and compete and I would

just want to make sure everyone is on the same page about how to train them, what to

train them and how we should be communicating with the parents and the team coaches. I

think if there is more communication and understanding of what is expected of them to

do, then it would be more smooth and we wouldn’t have a problem in the first place.

 Reference

Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2021). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice, and leadership.
Jossey-Bass.