Chapter 6

Recently, the program of One Day Seminar of Sport Psychology has been conducted prior to the requirement of assessment for the Sport Psychology subject itself. The seminar was conducted in an entire day, with 200 student participation from IIUM and outsider. It has four slots which delivered by different speakers on their specialties and also some games and aerobic included. Overall, the seminar was a huge successful program organized by the students in the course itself in conjunction with Department of Psychology and ILCRD.

Before the program was officially run, the respective committees had been working together from all aspects. It first started with the selection of committees to be in the main board, such as Program Manager, Program Coordinator, and other divisions as such Preparation and Technical, Special Task, and so on. After finished with the selections and everyone has the group, the first meeting for the program was initiated by the Program Coordinator.

During several meetings, the momentums of all leaders were seen as something powerful to shift the written works to the actions. The momentums fostered to the members within the division have driven to the high productivity and attitude among members. As for me, I was in Publication and Promotion division, the tasks were to promote this seminar to the students and invite them to be the participants. The promotion not only ends in the IIUM, but it was also expanding to the outside of university. The tasks were designing the posters and committees name tag, decorating the promotion booth, distributing hand bills to passer-by, put on the posters onto all notice boards at the Kuliiyyah, so that people may see and get the information. If they interested, they may register at the promotional booth and pay the fees. In order to attract students to come and participate, few privileges being introduced, for instance, the certificate, credited star point, and refreshments as inclusive in the fees paid. So, they would come not only to enjoy the seminar and get the benefits. Not going back with bare hands, but they also being rewarded for something extra as an appreciation for spending the whole Saturday to attend to the seminar rather than going back to hometown.

Although the working environment was full of stress, the teams managed to have enjoyable working time. The conditions were to have strong bonding with each other and to ensure the works were smoothly done and everybody has responsibility to assist anyone who needs help.

As mentioned above, everybody has responsibility to assist anyone who needs help. Each of the respective committees was obliged to give full cooperation and commitments to ensure the successfulness of the seminar. Lend a hand to help others finish the jobs on time and to eliminate any selfishness feelings among team members. In this stage, while demanding for others contribution, communication is crucial among the others. It is to ensure the flow of orders can be delivered directly to the person, who is responsible for the jobs. If the communication is lacking, others may not know which division needs help and therefore, crisis will arise as the matter of miscommunication.

The next point, to fasten the works within members, effective leadership must be displayed. Leaders must be enthusiast to inculcate the spirit of togetherness. He or she must also have the strength to coordinate people and give order to them. In this seminar, leaders were responsible to monitor their sub-committees either they do the job or not. The leaders need to direct people who are under him to perform certain parts or tasks pertaining to the requirement needed in the division. Later, the leaders need to evaluate the outcomes through updates from the respective people and give feedbacks onto the matters. It is for improvement of works.

The final point for this chapter related to the seminar is the ethical conduct that must be followed by the leaders and other people while doing their works. Everything must be observed and therefore, the purpose of doing the works must be sincerely to be rewarded by the Almighty. The works done must be in line to please Allah and at the same time to give benefits to those who come to the seminar.