Athlete Leadership Programs Governance Workshop Date Location Trainer

1. Athlete Leadership Programs Governance Workshop Date Location Trainer

2. Objectives of Workshop • Develop confidence • Learn to express opinions • Listen to other ideas • Learn to work in a group to solve a problem • Find out what athletes think is important • Purpose: To learn how to discuss problems and come up with solutions that will be best for Special Olympics

3. Introductions • Name • Where are you from? • How long have you been involved in Special Olympics? • Question: • If you could be any animal, what would you be? Why?

4. Athlete Leadership Programs

5. Athlete Leadership Programs • Athlete Leaders (including ALPs) Definition   • An Athlete or Participant who serves in at least one Athlete Leadership role listed below:  • Athlete Leadership Examples: • Athletes as Volunteers (games or events) • Athletes as Coaches or Assistant Coaches • Athletes as Sport Officials • Athletes as Public Speakers (Global Messengers) • Athletes on Boards, Committees or Input Councils • Athletes assisting with Fund Raising • Athletes assisting with technology or other office work • Athletes serving as peer mentors or team captains • Athletes attending regional or national meeting about ID

6. The Mission of Special Olympics

7. The Mission of Special Olympics The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-roundsports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adultswithintellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to developphysical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

8. The Mission of Special Olympics Year-round

9. The Mission of Special Olympics Sports training

10. The Mission of Special Olympics Athletic competition

11. The Mission of Special Olympics Olympic-type sports

12. The Mission of Special Olympics Children and adults (eight years old or older)

13. The Mission of Special Olympics with intellectual disabilities

14. The Mission of Special Olympics Develop Physical Fitness

15. The Mission of Special Olympics Demonstrate Courage

16. The Mission of Special Olympics Experience Joy

17. The Mission of Special Olympics Share gifts, skills And friendship With their families

18. Sharing gifts, skills & Friendship… The Mission of Special OlympicsVOTING Joy Courage 0 0 Competition 0 0 Children/Adults Physical fitness 0 0 Olympic-type Year-round 0 0 Sports Training Intellectual Disabilities 0 0

19. The Mission of Special Olympics The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-roundsports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adultswithintellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to developphysical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.

20. What makes Special Olympics Unique?

21. What makes Special Olympics Unique? • No charge to athletes • Awards for all • Advancement to higher levels of competition • All ability levels • Divisioning • All abilities can participate in sports, • can achieve, & have value

22. Unique: Divisioning • The Stork Stand!

23. Your Role as a Representative • Question: What is your most important role as a • representative of Special Olympics? • Educate/Promote in an articulate, knowledgeable, convincing manner • Know the facts about Special Olympics

24. On the Tip of your Tongue • Key Elements of the Philosophy • All abilities can participate in sports, can achieve and do have value • Selling Points/the Brand • Special Olympics changes lives • Special Olympics inspires all • Special Olympics creates heroes • Special Olympics celebrates differences • The Mission of Special Olympics

25. Special Olympics Facts • For people with intellectual disabilities • For athletes 8 years and older (Young Athletes Program for ages 2-7) • Worldwide – Programs in over 180 countries • Offers 30 official sports • Year-round • Sports training AND competition opportunities • Team AND individual sports

26. Roles & Responsibilities • Athletes • Mentors • A mentor is a person who provides support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement, and constructive example

27. Show Your Color

28. Discovering Leaders

29. Discovering Leaders • What does a leader do? • Who are good leaders? • Why are they good leaders?

30. Name Your Team

31. What is a… • Board of Directors • What do they do?

32. What is a… • Committee? • What do they do?

33. What is the role of… • Special Olympics staff? • What do they do?

34. Special Olympics Program • How do the Board of Directors, committees and staff work together?

35. Committee Work - 1 • Brainstorming • You are each on the Area Committee of a new Program with 100 athletes in a wide geographical area. • If you had all the money you needed, what sports would you offer to make it a great program?

36. Committee Work - 2 • Brainstorming • You are each on the Area Committee of a new Program with 100 athletes in a wide geographical area. • If you had all the money you needed, what would you do to give them the best Program possible? • What decisions did you make?

37. Committee Work - 3 • There has been a huge shortfall in revenue, and the budget has been cut in half. • Your committee must now decide how to cut half of their plans.

38. The Wedding What do you REALLY need?

39. Committee Work - 4 • Plans are submitted to the Board for review AND further cuts…

40. Committee Work • Board / Committee Work • The Board explains their decisions…

41. Athlete Input Councils

42. After the workshop, you can… • Serve on a committee • Serve on the Board of Directors • Participate in an Input Council • Volunteer • Think about what you want to do…

43. Evaluation • What is one thing you learned • from this workshop? • What will you do when you go home?

44. Athlete Leadership Programs