Calling All FIRST Teams

[Justin Montois]

Originally Posted by ICanCountTo19

While letting them learn and fail is necessary, they do need resources and ideas. They don't need to implement those ideas and it is at their discretion to figure out how to use those ideas, but I think that a resource like this is necessary. Try the websites of chairman's award winning teams. I know RUSH has posted a "toolkit for success" and distributes it as much as possible to anyone who wants to start a team or just did start a team.

http://teamrush27.net//resources/toolkit.html

Oh I don't disagree.

Team 365 is hard to beat when looking for resources. GO MOE!

http://moe365.org/moementum/moementum.php

[EricH]

Miss Daisy's Team-in-a-Box is another resource.

[KathieK]

This is a great idea, but may have already been covered by other resources that are available to teams. The Mentor Resources library on the FIRST website, the NEMO website, the Kickoff and Conference Workshops site and the Think Tank, as well as the white papers here on CD and the other team's websites, have covered a lot of topics including team organization.

[ebarker]

Rookies and veterans should study other teams and organizations to learn how successful operations work and how failure comes about.

Mentoring business plans to a team is certainly preferred rather than allowing teams to 'self discover'. They may as well 'self discover' chemistry and calculus.

I will be having a seminar at the Championship 2010 entitled "Donuts & Dollars: Creating a Financially Stable Organization".

It will not be a cookie cutter approach to fundraising but a little more complicated.

It is about helping the participants create effective strategies to help their community understand what they do, value what that do, and consequently the community provide more support to the team, financially and otherwise.

The conference seminar will be on youtube a couple of weeks after the event.

[Zack247]

You should check out 27 Team RUSH's team manuel. It's a comprehensive model for running a team. From that you can write your own business plan specific to your own team's needs/wants/desires.