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Creating a culture of player and athlete learning
Do you create trusting relationships with athletes, develop a learning environment that is supportive, innovative and motivating, and understand and tackle obstacles to development? Ideally, coaches create an engaging environment that focuses and stimulates...
Engagement strategies that make your sponsors feel valued and ensure multi-year commitments
“See you next year” These four simple words are an acknowledgement from the sponsor that they see their contribution to the club as a donation, for which they get very little if anything in return. It also highlights that they certainly have no other involvement with...
Supporter and parent management from a player development perspective
A significant contributing factor to player development is management of each player’s support network. We’ve already discussed the influence of parents on player development and how this impacts club culture. Again, we emphasise a couple of points that you may like...
Storing your Sponsor’s information and handing over to the new Sponsorship Coordinator
Worse than “see you next year” is never see you again. If “see you next year” is the worst thing a sponsorship manager can hear from a sponsor then hearing nothing from the club is the worst experience for a sponsor. We speak to so many businesses who are willing to...
Creating a safe training and playing environment for players
Finally, we’ll cover a few key points for safe training and playing environment for player development. Two key components of this are: Looking after the player’s body Safe clubs, socially and practically (gameday and training) Sports Science and Sports Medicine...
How to get your members onboard to help you build sponsorship dollars?
Setting the Expectation for Members to Contribute We strongly believe that because each player and member benefits from club sponsorship that each member has an obligation to play a role in attracting sponsors to their club. In fact we strongly believe that it should...
How to value sponsorship packages?
Of all the questions we get asked at Sports Community, the question most asked is: “How do we value sponsorship packages?” Traditionally, sponsors of local sports clubs generally don’t seek to receive real commercial value from their sponsorship other than the...