NOHA Summit Chapter One – August 5-7, 2011Matt Cavaliere and Sandra Harpe
Able to work well with the other Association Bring in Coaches/Managers that have
retired from Coaching or other duties but still want to be involved
Students that need volunteer hours or past players who want to help
Parents, family, friends and co-workers – some want to help out but may not be able to do it full time – give them the opportunity to help with tournaments
Having the right people for the right positions and understanding their duties
Making sure that they are treated well and are given all of the resources to help them – Coaches, Managers or League Directors
Ensure that any issues that arise are dealt with in a quick manner
The Board backs decisions or recommendations; listen to what they say as they are the eyes and ears at the rinks
Trying to get more people involved This season we are going to set up Committees
in our Association in which we will ask our Coaches, Managers and Parents to come aboard
Have had many challenges over the years; have lost some really good people for many different reasons
With the beginning of each season we seem to get everything in place and have a successful year
Minimal rules and control over team operations - we give volunteers opportunity to make their teams their own and set their own budgets and rules. But back them up when they need it.
choose non-parents over parents for coaching positions and try to maintain team staffs year-after-year, rather than moving up with their kids
encourage rivalries amongst local teams strong working relationships between
convenors, coaching staffs and the association we spread out the work over lots of volunteers
so few individuals are overly burdened