Leadership & Governance

Building teams

Building a successful team involves identifying, selecting and integrating people with complementary skills and characteristics that improve team dynamics. First, identify the skills and characteristics that your team needs. Second, select people with these skills and characteristics, and consider how...

• Capacity Building
• Leadership and Governance
• Professional Development

Board governance

While management is about “getting the work done,” governance ensures organizations pursue the right purpose, in the right way, and continuously develop. In any sport organization, the board of directors’ role is to govern the organization. When board members are...

• Board and Volunteer Management
• Leadership and Governance
• Professional Development

Independence in Safe Sport

The importance of Safe Sport and how it can be further integrated into Canadian Sport is an ever-evolving process for many sport organizations. A key question for many organizations centers on what “independence” means in the context of investigative processes...

• Leadership and Governance
• Safe Sport
• Sport Participation

Data for change: Embracing demographics to advance equity in sport

April 22, 2022

Highlights The “who” is as important as the “what” when sport organizations are planning for data, analytics and evidence-based change related to equity, diversity and inclusion. When it comes to race and intersectionality, the power of data practices is its...

• Data and Analytics
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Leadership and Governance

Shaping inclusive sport policy and programs

April 22, 2022

Highlights Over the past few years, the racism and discrimination brought to light throughout society and within the sport sector have forced a necessary reflection on policies and practices. There’s a renewed urgency for sport stakeholders to adopt new policies and...

• Canadian Sport Policies
• Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Leadership and Governance

Gold medal governance: Embracing a steward-leader board

April 6, 2022

This is the fourth blog post in a series designed to increase sport organizations’ capacity to govern well in an increasingly complex world. Check out the previous posts about the role of the board, strategic foresight and the keys to...

• Board and Volunteer Management
• Equity/Diversity/Inclusion
• Leadership and Governance

Active economy

A region’s active economy includes all organizations and individuals who directly or indirectly contribute to the development and delivery of sport and active recreation experiences. Strategies that maximize the impact of an active economy can drive economic growth, employment and...

• High Performance
• Leadership and Governance
• Major Games

Recommendations for evaluation

Through evaluation, sport organizations can gain insights and solicit feedback about their programs. Evaluation can also inform decision-making, guide program improvements and build stakeholders’ value and advocacy for programming. In the SIRC blog, discover three recommendations for sport organizations to...

• Board and Volunteer Management
• Leadership and Governance
• Program Design and Evaluation

Women in sport leadership

What “works” for advancing women into sport leadership positions? E-Alliance is conducting new research to answer this exact question. E-Alliance is exploring how allyship, mentorship and sponsorship, more “formal” and gender equitable hiring processes, and implementing quotas for women as...

• Equity/Diversity/Inclusion
• Gender Equity
• Leadership and Governance

The mental health strategy for high performance sport in Canada: What national sport organization leaders and staff should know

January 24, 2022

Highlights The Mental Health Strategy for High Performance Sport in Canada aims to improve the mental health outcomes for all Canadian high performance athletes, coaches, and staff. The strategy was developed by Canadian experts in mental health and sport based...

• High Performance
• Leadership and Governance
• Mental Health