USASA Summit 2009

2009-07-16T15:12:00.003-04:00

Please take our survey and share your thoughts and ideas on how we can make US Adult Soccer the game for life: http://www.tinyurl.com/soccersurvey2009

July 9, 2009 - The USASA Survey launches through Keeping In Touch, the USASA e-Newsletter. The link to the survey is http://www.tinyurl.com/soccersurvey2009.

THE TASK FORCE ALSO HAD CONFERENCE CALLS ON JUNE 16, JUNE 25, JUNE 29 AND JULY 6 TO FINALIZE THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM DETAILS:

Summit participants
Summit agenda
Interview questionnaire
Web Survey

Here are the final documents that reflect the SUMMIT Agenda and interview questionnaire:

USASA Vision & Strategy Task Force Report
Player & Coach Interview Guide

Next Task Force conference call to be held Thursday July 16, 2009.

June 5, 2009 - Task Force Teleconference Recap:

Bruno began by providing a summary of the Executive Committee meeting held the night before.
Tom followed up by stating that by June 15 we should expect to have the names and email addresses for the Summit delegates.
Tom provided a summary of his consultant status meeting. One item being worked on is trying to confirm the audiences to include for the interviews and the survey. Mark and Hank are working on a schematic to visualize this and it will be emailed to the group for review. Tim and Cara have been contacted and working directly with Hank and Mark to meet the June 15 deadline for the survey and interview.
Tim provided an update on the interview process.
A survey update was provided by Mark Haas.
Hank suggested that he and his team work with Valerie to create media contacts to promote our efforts in an attempt to try and reach unaffiliated leagues. Hank also provided a status on interviews- there are still two ExCo members left to interview.

May 14, 2009 - Task Force Teleconference Recap

Stephanie provided update us on the communication of the Summit agenda and report we sent to Brooks which was formally sent to the EXCO this afternoon.
Hank provided verbal report on the visit to HQ last Friday with Kevan Pipe. Hank and Kevan were able to interview all HQ staff as well as meet with Brooks.
Hank provided update on the interview plan and process with EXCO – Hank and Mark will be conducting the telephone interviews.
Below is consulting team assignments to work with Task Force Captains
Key focus is beginning to craft the web survey questionnaire as well as defining the interview pool and associated questionnaires
Mark and Cara to take the lead on web survey … Hank and Tim on interviews

Click here to see the full list of committees

May 5, 2009 - USASA Executive Committee is updated on the progress of the USASA Strategic Planning Task Force.

The Task Force Team (TFT) under the leadership of Tom O’Shea has convened a number of conference calls. On these calls Sporting Strategies and the Task Force Team have discussed a number of key issues on the Summit: Number of attendees and participation & schedule.

Next Steps:

Kevan Pipe and Hank Steinbrecher will travel to Indianapolis to visit the USASA Headquarters. We will visit the Staff and the President; conduct our initial organizational survey, (similar to the FIFA management survey).
The Team of Mark, Hank and Kevan (MKH) will begin work this week on framing the survey questions to be placed on the Internet and also those used for personal interviews in conjunction with the TFT.

Task Force Teleconference Recap - April 6th

2009-04-07T11:20:00.005-04:00

Just a recap on the latest conference call with the Task Force yesterday...

Tom and Stephanie to build budget for Summit process.
Created sub-team with Cara Rooney (Chair), Doug Pels and Bruno Trapikas to build the algorithm for Summit participation that includes key stakeholders and keeps to a cap of 125 participants.
Discussed Proposal from Sporting Strategies International as well as adding additional resource - Mark Haas.
Brought Sporting Strategies International on call to ask questions and discuss proposal.
Laid out structure of 5 sub-teams and Task Force members to send Tom preferences on their participation with the following teams:
1. Web Survey (Design, define target audiences, mechanics of getting survey launched and reviewing outputs)
2. Interviews (Design questionnaire, identify interview pools, conduct some of the interviews, summarize and synthesize conclusions)
3. Logistics (Summit meeting details, selection of participants, working with staff on other requirements)
4. Organization Review (By-laws,organization structure, EXCO roles & responsibilities, staff roles & responsibilities, budgets etc.)
5. Programs and Services (Review current program and services provided by USASA, determine value proposition)

I am also keeping the Summit page at http://www.usasa.com/summit/ updated with information so check there often.

Alot of the work will be done pre-Summit, once the decision is made on the facilitator the entire process will be laid out. In the meantime.. in looking at the sub-teams created above does anyone feel we missed something?

2009-04-04T20:48:00.001-04:00

Welcome everyone to the USASA blog for the 2009 Soccer Summit. Please feel free to share comments, questions and ideas. We also have the website dedicated to updates and progress so feel free to stop by there as well. http://www.usasa.com/summit/