By Dina Bell-Laroche. There are countless articles, research, and management books that suggest the positive impact of having a set of enduring values is well understood and documented by some of the world’s best organizations. In sport, this proved not to be the case. Last year I completed my Masters thesis on the intentional use [...]
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Values … Let’s Get Personal
by Dina Bell-Laroche. We have written here before about the role that values can play in helping organizations improve their performance. But I am inspired to blog about a slightly different orientation based on a conversation we had last week with participants from Cross Country Canada, who were participating in the Risk Management Project (this [...]
Living Your Organization’s Values
by Dina Bell-Laroche Recently, I held a workshop at Skate Canada’s Annual Congress and General Meeting in Toronto and shared my views on how sport organizations can benefit from identifying their values and using them intentionally. My research on nine National Sport Organizations (NSOs) showed me that a sport organization demonstrates evidence of a strong [...]
Moving from Values Inaction to Values-in-Action: An Exploration of How Values Can be Managed Intentionally by National Sport Organizations (NSOs)
The study examined the intentional use of NSOs’ stated values. Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) was applied to an Appreciative Inquiry approach of interviewing NSO senior leadership. Data were collected from nine NSOs through multiple-case studies analysis of interview transcripts, websites, and policy statements. Results indicated that most NSOs operated from a Management by Objectives (MBO) [...]
Intentionally Managing Your Organizational Values
by Dina Bell-Laroche. Over the past 18 months, I have been working towards my Master’s Degree in the Applied Health Sciences (Sport Management) at Brock University. I am pleased to share with you that I successfully defended mythesis on April 5th, 2010. My thesis is titled Moving from values inaction to values-in-action: An exploration of [...]
Linking Sport4Life with Management by Values: How Values Can Improve the Performance of Sport Organizations
A force for good – that is what most not-for-profit sport organizations set out to become. For that very reason, sport often attracts dynamic, passionate and dedicated people who are as driven to succeed as the coaches and athletes their organization supports. But in their quest to achieve their objectives, leaders in sport often find [...]
Tapping the Performance Potential of Your Organization’s Values
Organizational values are often described as the glue that connects your mission to your vision. What we know to be true, however, is that in the absence of stated, agreed-to, and lived values, people default to their own set of personal values to make decisions, prioritize, or resolve conflicts. If our core business as sport [...]
Risk Management Revisited … or, Values Matter
We started writing this column 15 years ago. Our inaugural column was titled ‘personal risk management’. Written in 1994, we compared the then-new Coaching Code of Ethics to a survival guide which, if properly understood and acted upon, could form a part of every coach’s personal risk management program. We closed the article with a [...]
Management by Values
The time has never been better for sport organizations to consider the important role of values in their mandate and activities, and the contribution that ‘management by values’ can make in their operations. It is our view that the major challenge facing sport in Canada today is creating and sustaining fundamental, strong connections between and [...]
