So this is a question to gauge opinions on Observations.
With my job in the Military, I'm used to writing reports. And having been trained to a particularly high standard in Quality Assurance, I'm quite meticulous in my approach.
I take that into my Observation Reports aswell.
When I was going through levels 7-5, I found that some observer reports were good. But I also found some were pretty poor in the sense that I didn't get anything from them. One of the ones I received once was literally two paragraphs long... The observer appeared in the second half and then left midway through but gave me some good words from incidents from the first half which which never even happened.I felt let down back then because I wanted an in-depth assessment of what I'd displayed, with plenty of development points to enable me to progress.
I've been observing for a few seasons now and I've found that when I go and talk to referees (7-5), they also want a good, solid and in depth report.
My observation forms for 7-6 and 7-5 are often around 4-5 pages long (in the coloured format, inclusive of the 2 pages of standard forms and an illustration page at the end, so my actual words total about 1 A4 page). All with plenty of timing-based information, examples. In the bottom, if I've picked someone up for free kick positioning, I will add pictures from Practical Guidance (LOTG) and as all my Observations are done electronically, I sometimes send hyperlinks to demonstration videos. On follow ups with the referees that I observe, they like the amount of information I put in.
Obviously this is different compared to supply league Observations which are alot more limited (and score based).
So my question is in two parts:
To referees: the more information and game-based references the better? Or would you rather short, straight to the point paragraphs?
Observers: what's your average length of report for 7-6-5?
With my job in the Military, I'm used to writing reports. And having been trained to a particularly high standard in Quality Assurance, I'm quite meticulous in my approach.
I take that into my Observation Reports aswell.
When I was going through levels 7-5, I found that some observer reports were good. But I also found some were pretty poor in the sense that I didn't get anything from them. One of the ones I received once was literally two paragraphs long... The observer appeared in the second half and then left midway through but gave me some good words from incidents from the first half which which never even happened.I felt let down back then because I wanted an in-depth assessment of what I'd displayed, with plenty of development points to enable me to progress.
I've been observing for a few seasons now and I've found that when I go and talk to referees (7-5), they also want a good, solid and in depth report.
My observation forms for 7-6 and 7-5 are often around 4-5 pages long (in the coloured format, inclusive of the 2 pages of standard forms and an illustration page at the end, so my actual words total about 1 A4 page). All with plenty of timing-based information, examples. In the bottom, if I've picked someone up for free kick positioning, I will add pictures from Practical Guidance (LOTG) and as all my Observations are done electronically, I sometimes send hyperlinks to demonstration videos. On follow ups with the referees that I observe, they like the amount of information I put in.
Obviously this is different compared to supply league Observations which are alot more limited (and score based).
So my question is in two parts:
To referees: the more information and game-based references the better? Or would you rather short, straight to the point paragraphs?
Observers: what's your average length of report for 7-6-5?
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