Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Policies
Charissa A. Suazo
A significant part of leadership is defining goals
and creating policies that will help ensure
meeting those goals effectively, efficiently,
ethically, and fairly.
Sports:
Provides entertainment
Joy of playing
Learning lifetime activity skills
Prepare student athletes to be better
citizens
Defining a Mission and Philosophy
Goals and objectives are measurable plans to help reach your stated mission
To be evaluated and stated yearly
Driven by principles your community believes in
Ensure that philosophy is carried out by all who are part
Written > Verbal
Prioritizing your Objectives
1. Call a meeting of the principal, 1. Based on your own self-study of forms 2.2,
superintendent, at least one board of 2.3, and 2.4, write down your
education member, male and female recommended list of program objectives
head coach, at least one parent. and principles.
2. Discuss the need to have a program 2. At a meeting of your organization’s
philosophy, with clear objectives, leaders, present your philosophy, including
principles, and policies. your objectives and principles for the
program
3. Give each member copies of forms 2.2,
2.3, and 2.4 as self-study questionnaires. 3. After these leaders review your
presentation, guide them through each
4. Later call a second meeting, making sure
item to gain consensus. Allow input and
each committee member has a copy of
feedback by all members of the
others’ self-study answers. Come to a
organization
consensus as a committee on your
program’s principles, objectives, and 4. Revise your program’s objectives and
policies. principles based on what the group has
developed.
Moving from Principle to Policy