Mistake #9 – Crash Derby
This is the second installment of the 10 biggest mistakes of 2008.
Picture opening night of our new youth facility. There is a buzz in the air. We have a huge crowd for us at that time, over a hundred students. We had a camera crew doing a commercial for us…it was AWESOME…until.
When parents came to pick up the students…it was CHAOS! You see we are in an old Wal-Mart building. The youth center is in the old loading dock. So parents have to drive around a narrow driveway to get to the back…where over a hundred teens are running around like crazy…IN THE DARK!
Cars were parked all over the place and one car almost got hit by a BiLo truck! I was in the middle of it looking around like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Good side is immediately we recognized the problem. We created a portable fenced in area, brought in a parking team and developed a call in program to get the kids to the pick up area quickly. However, that first week we looked like total buffoons.
Sean Rheaume 