By Jokokan Federation
On May 24, 2003, Jokokan Denmark's general meeting was held. Honbu-dojo Denmark had added premises.
After a good round of morning bread with the obligatory Jokokan coffee, federation chairman Kimu Yamana Bjarkmann opened the year's General Assembly 2003 and welcomed all those present. The association's two auditors had no comments, but only praise for the association's treasurer, Jens Iversen, for the 2002-2003 annual accounts, which were very clear and detailed.
The Federation Treasurer had also carried out an analysis with the assistance of the Federation Chairman, regarding the distribution of the Federation's expenses on activities and real contributors. This tool was also partially used during the last general meeting, and is very useful when the management of resource distribution must be optimal with scarce resources. This was also an introduction to how we will manage resources such as finances and contributors, activities and result dissemination in the future. A performance management combined and compared with an activity-based cost management.
At Jokokan, we always try to learn from our mistakes through a constant update of best practices - both for the sake of clarity, but also the need for a lower consumption of resources by the currently relatively few contributors for optimal management. And we have scarce resources in our non-profit association, where everyone works for free with their contribution to the community. Which the Federal Treasurer's analysis also showed; A total of 3,015 hours were spent on union work last year - an increase of over 100 % compared to 2001/2002. Of these 3015 hours, the Federation Chairman was responsible for the 68 %, the Deputy Chairman for the 16 %, the rest of the democratically elected Federation Board for 14.5 % and others for only 1.5 %. A clear skewed distribution of contributors to the community was, as last year, fully agreed upon.
During the Federation Chairman's report, it became further clear that a cultural change project such as the one Jokokan has just undergone in the last two years requires very hard work for a few people. As well as intensive communication and dialogue for increased understanding and inner change combined with people's own interests and changing life cycles, and a sometimes strict and strong top management when this is necessary.
It can be led to believe that it is significantly different to carry out such an ambitious culture change project in a company than in a sports association "with voluntary and unpaid work for others", but it is not actually so. The only difference is that in a company you can lose your job, you can only do so as a last resort in an association (membership), and therefore this is an extra hard nut to crack. But we succeeded!
It was very hard, sometimes not fun at all, but it turned out to be a great transition success. Jokokan has survived and will grow bigger and stronger with new generations of Jokokans. The foundation has been laid for a bright future with more members and schools, with increased and deeper community spirit and satisfaction among members, supporters, friends and family. The focus and focus on results has now moved from the association to each of the eight local schools today. We are now in the consolidation phase, and our motto in this phase is: "Jokokan Denmark - an association geared to the future".
Board responsible Kimu Yamana Bjarkmann also informed about the positive development in that other Jokokaners from Jokokan International, such as Dollarbrand Shihan, 6.dan and Japanese Jokokaners are coming to Soke Sensei Tonegawa's training camp 1-6. July, 2003, and Jokokaners from Japan come to Denmark for education, forge relationships and experience our beautiful country.
The general assembly unanimously adopted the association chairman's report, and fully supported the work of the association board in the past year and the plans for the coming year. Thank you for a good general meeting.
