TRAINING & EDUCATION Activity:


Consider which of the listed activities arising from the headings (Action, Time, Context, Target) you may employ, and then take a moment to stop.


Action


I need to maintain a sports turf surface to facilitate play.


(Cricket ground, golf course, rugby pitch, bowls green, racecourse, football pitch, etc.)


Practical


steps leading to Reasoned Action


Target


What is my objective or intended outcome?


a. Control disease b. Feed the plant c. Undertake IPM


Figure 2 The key questions


These preceding exercises are designed to prepare you for the key questions. These are the questions which are at the very heart of an individual, a team or an organisation, with the intention of taking


reasoned action to meet new challenges and attain high quality professional stadards.


Context By doing what?


a. Reducing chemicals b. Providing adequate nutrition c. Create an Integrated Pest Management plan to communicate and follow


• Take 5 minutes, either on your own or in groups, to think if there are other areas of turf management not listed, where you could apply a similar process.


Time When?


a. By the time an Active Substance is withdrawn


b. To maintain plant health and presentation after a renovation


c. Create an Integrated Pest Management Plan in time for the growing season which has to be reviewed at the end of the year


Table 2: Process and intention of the key questions Process Step A. Contemplation


1 2 3


B. Understanding C. Evaluation


1


2 1


2 Question


What goal am I intending to achieve? Why am I intending to achieve it? How am I intending to achieve it?


What specific factor or mechanism is achieving my aim? How is it achieving it?


How do I measure the results? How do I evaluate and improve?


Intention


If, once the processes and questions in Table 2 have been answered satisfactorily, for any given situation, whether that situation be philosophical: “why do I come to work?” or the practical “how can I reduce my fertiliser inputs?”, they can be transferred into reasoned action with the confi dence that you are taking a clearly defi ned course towards achieving your goals.


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One fi nal thought to refl ect upon, when assessing the value of the key questions and the importance of undertaking reasoned action, is this:


Don’t do anything unless you can answer the key questions because, if you can’t answer confi dently, how do you not know you are doing harm?


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