OGL 481 Pro-Seminar I:

PCA-Choosing an Organization Worksheet

Kiana Knox

Arizona State University

Organizational Leadership Project Management

Worksheet Objectives:

1. Identify an organization and situation you want to study over the remainder of the course.

2. Describe the organization and the 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) Name and describe your organization.

The organization I have chosen for this assignment is Gold Medal Gymnastics. This

company is a gymnastics gym that is ran by one of the 1996 gold winning team for USA,

Amanda Borden and her husband. This gym is actually where I did my gymnastics career

as well. We pride ourselves on making sure we are of course teaching kids gymnastics

but making sure we have a safe, loving and fun environment. The organization is all

about inspiring and making the next generation better than before. We want to make sure

that not only do the kids feel comfortable with us but the parents comfortable as well and

know that we are going to take care of them for whatever the time may be when they are

with us.

 2) Describe your role in the organization (it can be an internal or external role).

My role at Gold Medal Gymnastics is I am 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 juts 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.

3) Describe the situation, including information you think the will help the reader
understand the most important elements of the situation. (This will require
selectivity: part of the art of case writing is separating the essential facts from the
mass of information that might be included).

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 what

happened was she was coaching them unsafely, going by her own schedule and coaching

them whatever she wanted when there is a certain schedule and lesson plan that must be

followed and 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. She just wasn’t buying in to what Gold Medal prides

themselves on and wasn’t being a good team player so it caused a lot of frustration for us

the staff and the parents. She was very disrespectful to the people that are higher up then

her and just couldn’t follow the structure we had in place. As well as, our number one
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 priority at the end of the day is keeping the kids safe and she was having them do things

that they should not and we're not ready to do which cause them to potentially hurt

themselves.

 Reference

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