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PERFORMANCEFOCUS INVESTMENT

Progress Report

Where we want to move from...

Where we want to get to…

EFFECTIVE SPORTS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM IN NORTHERN IRELAND

PerformanceFocus

Programme Objective:

• To improve athlete performance through the

development of a sustainable world leading performance system

PerformanceFocus

• This work will be governed by the new Sport NI

Corporate Plan two outcomes from which will be:

• More NI athletes winning at the highest level; and
• More people reaching their sporting goals in a

structured environment

PerformanceFocus

• Sport NI investment has five elements:
• Governance and Culture
• High Performance Operations
• Club Development
• Coaching
• Talent

PerformanceFocus

• Sport NI assesses progress using:
• The SETs each of your sports completes and

Performance View

• Meetings with your sport and element staff

within Sport NI – feedback

• Sport NI reflection on progress to date

PerformanceFocus

• So:
• What has worked well?
• What has worked less well and needs improved?
• What do we (You and Sport NI ) need to start

doing and what are the challenges ahead?

Worked Well

• SETs good to assess your organisation against

world leading practice - sets clear direction for change

• Improved understanding of what systems look

like in practice – again clarity in what good looks like

• Initial mapping of pathways and how athlete

development can be accelerated – direction

• Professional workforce delivering change.

Worked well

• Provision of bespoke expertise and support

under each element – a direct ‘go to’ person delivering the things you need

• Tailored solutions to meet each sport’s needs –

in depth engagement focused on delivery

• Establishment of networks enabling sharing of

learning – engagement across sports resolving similar problems

Worked well

• Coaches indicating increase in confidence

through shared learning – leadership on the ground

• Broad range of training provision – HR,

Risk Management, Leadership, Club Development – Helping to increase confidence in overcoming challenges

Worked Well

• Four out of five elements show positive
• utcomes over and above the target - on

average 6.5% above the overall target for each element

• Governance and Culture
• Club Development
• Coaching
• Talent.
• Athlete successes – Winter Paralympics,

cycling, boxing, judo, bowls, golf, Sailing, Cricket

Systems & Structures

2009 2013 – baseline. 2017 - Estimate

Less Well

• Administrative burdens – multiple funding pots

and eligibility requirements on payments.

• Performance View – Online – teething problems –

and too many components to evaluate.

• “Joined Upness” in working with you. Multiple

contacts and requests for information by Sport NI.

• Communications between us could be better to

manage expectations.

Less Well

• Over estimation/optimism bias – in scoring some

system elements – led to document revisions

• ne year in.
• Organisation pitching for what might be offered

rather than what is necessary and reflective of a state of readiness.

• Splitting posts across elements is challenging

with conflicts on priorities.

• Little or no programme funding aligned to posts.

Less Well

• Some Governance and Culture changes a

challenge to volunteers.

• Challenge to some organisations’ capability to
• perate at a HP level – State of readiness

variable

• Consistency of athlete target setting across

PerformanceFocus and AIP.

• High Performance Operations across sports fell

short of the target by 4%

Start Doing / Challenges

• Clarify and agree performance targets – remove

any ambiguities.

• Agree with you your readiness to operate a HP

system

• Streamline requirements around investment –

SNI is actively looking to reduce burden while meeting public sector requirements

Start Doing / Challenges

• Improve alignment with and between Governing

Body and branches to ensure economy and effectiveness N/S and E/W.

• Singular point of entry “our main contact” Sport

NI to examine with you what is required.

• Splitting posts – can this be effective?
• Talent / HPOs - pathway or talent and move to a

more integrated way of working

Start Doing / Challenges

• Start seeing P/F investment as a contribution to

the overall strategic plan of a sport, rather than the only plan for a sport – variable across bodies with good reason.

Summary of Progress

• Encouraging signs at the beginning of the

journey towards the development of a sustainable world leading performance system

Summary of Progress

• Direction
• Improvements across 5 elements in line with what

makes a successful sporting system

• Challenge:
• Are system improvements being matched by number
• f athletes and coaches in the system?

Summary of Progress

• Direction:
• Pathways - evolving and becoming more visible
• Challenge:
• Who is on the pathway in terms of coaches and

athletes? Are we doing enough? Are we clear about what it is we want to achieve?

Summary of Progress

• Engagement:
• Room for improvement in collaboration between

NGBs / Branches / Sport NI

• Challenge:
• Are we really sufficiently aligned to deliver agreed

targets?

Summary of Progress

• Delivering Results
• System ratings are on the up and athlete

performances have improved

• Challenge:
• Is the pace of improvement sufficient?
• Are NI athletes’ performances falling further behind

that of our competitors? How can this gap be closed more quickly?

Summary of Progress

• Challenges:
• At the end of a possible four years of investment

would you rate system improvement or athlete performance as your preferred outcome?

• What do we need to change? Is it simply a matter of

more investment?

• Can we use the same amount of investment to

deliver preferred changes more quickly?

What more can Sport NI do for you?

• What more do you want from Sport NI and what

has been your experience to date?

• Discussion - groups facilitated by Sport NI staff

One to One Reviews

• Purpose: To assess whether we (your sport and

Sport NI) are seeing the changes we need to see?

• Focus: Athlete population in each sport, who is

at what stage of development and what are their needs on the pathway?

One to One Reviews

• 9th March to 17th April 2015
• Morning / Afternoon / Evening
• Online Booking System
• Approximately 1.5 hours per meeting
• Thank You for attendance and contribution