
How you can work with your sport community to include sports officials as a strategic priority? How do you measure how well your organization is supporting officials?
Recommended Steps to Follow:
- Create quality training programs including:
- Up-to-date, research based materials;
- Mentorship;
- Practical training opportunities;
- Adaptability to skill level, experience, and age/stage of learners;
- Incorporate evaluation and feedback loops.
- Train developers, evaluators and mentors.
- Clearly communicate and promote developmental pathways and training opportunities.
- Provide fair and clear compensation/honorarium/expenses criteria.
- Include programming and communications in strategic and operational plans that value and recognize officials.
Promising Practices
Resources
- Sport Quebec Multi-Sport Officials Training Programs
- Canadian Heritage Sport Participation 2010
- Sport Officiating in Canada Report by Susan L. Forbes, Lori A. Livingston, & Darsiga Thevakumar University of Ontario Institute of Technology, March, 2018