If you said yes to any of the above questions, then you will want to attend this workshop on facilitation. Having facilitated hundreds of meetings – both large and small – Dina Bell-Laroche from the Centre for Sport and Law has picked up some tricks and tips that she will share, along with a process framework to help keep you organized and on task. From developing your initial agenda to determining who needs to be at the table, this workshop will provide participants with a framework to plan, prepare, and facilitate effective meetings.

This will be an interactive session that will be presented by SIRC and the CENTRE FOR SPORT AND LAW and will feature Dina Bell-Laroche.

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The Twelve-Minute Sport Lawyer      

This is a fast paced presentation that will move quickly through hot topics and issues of the day. In this session we will provide our perspectives and recommendations on:

• Industry Canada’s new Not for Profit Corporations Act
• The Proposed National Policy and Code of Conduct – Implementation Consideration
• A Case for Reciprocity among Sport Bodies regarding Discipline Matters
• Appeals management and ‘pre-appeals’ – a timely and cost-effective innovation?
• Risk Management Update

This workshop will be presented by SIRC and the CENTRE FOR SPORT AND LAW and will feature Dina Bell-Laroche.

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A Strategic Approach to Communications     

An effective communications plan can help organizations better achieve their mandate, improve organizational performance, and create clarity and shared understanding amongst stakeholders. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the role, importance, and benefits of developing communications plans for their organizations and projects by reviewing the essential characteristics of strategic communications planning. Moreover, participants will have an opportunity to apply new knowledge in real time by developing their own communications plan during the workshop.

This workshop will be presented by SIRC and the CENTRE FOR SPORT AND LAW and will feature Dina Bell-Laroche.

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The Twelve-Minute Sport Lawyer     

This is a fast paced presentation that will move quickly through hot topics and issues of the day. In this session we will provide our perspectives and recommendations on:

• SOCAN’s aggressive efforts to collect on license fees for playing music at sport events
• Ontario’s new ban on handheld devices while driving and what it means for your employees and volunteers
• Your best response and defense to discrimination complaints (which are on the rise)
• Legal and privacy dimensions of social networking and social media
• New and interesting legal cases of interest to sport leaders, including ambush marketing issues
• Additional topics/issues to be announced

This workshop will be presented by SIRC and the CENTRE FOR SPORT AND LAW and will feature Rachel Corbett and Steve Indig.

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Managing Your Intellectual Property     

We have long observed that many sport organizations are not sophisticated when it comes to the issue of managing, exploiting and protecting their intellectual property (IP) assets. The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games brought many commercial and ambush marketing issues to the forefront, which will inform this workshop designed to help small and medium sized sport organizations to better understand IP management. Learn the essential and practical steps of conducting an IP audit and tap into best practices for protecting and exploiting your intangible yet invaluable knowledge-based commercial assets. This is not a marketing workshop, but rather a primer in the homework you need to do before you can design a successful marketing campaign.

This workshop will be presented by SIRC and the CENTRE FOR SPORT AND LAW

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Successfully Managing Change Within Your Organization     

This presentation will focus on lessons learned from successful organizational change campaigns within Canadian sport organizations. Participants will receive useful tips on how to promote, manage and achieve change within their organization by paying attention to timing, communications, getting the right people into the right roles, and framing the debate around organizational values and principles. Join a panel of sport leaders who have been effective champions of governance, program or planning change within their organizations.

This workshop will be presented by SIRC and the CENTRE FOR SPORT AND LAW, and will feature a panel of speakers. See Draft Agenda. Panel includes Douglas Duncan from Speed Skating who will share process of change from an LTAD and programming perspective; Joan Duncan will bring insight into change management from a governance and systems change viewpoint and Paul Cormier will open up with a brief session on facilitating change from a more theoretical perspective – along with some very practical tools.

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