Schedule

Day 1 – Sunday, July 29th, 2018

 

 

 

Day 2 – Monday, July 30th, 2018

 

 

 

The Most Important Things I’ve Learned About Officiating
Time: M1 – 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Why it matters as much as it does. Few have the standing, history and unique ability to put officiating into proper perspective. This keynote address opens the Summit and it will open your eyes and challenge you. It is when officiating is viewed “horizon-to-horizon” that certain things can come into sharp focus. The lessons are strong. They can be stark. They are historic. They paint a clear picture of where we are headed.

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Who, What, When, Where, Why…Why Not
Time: M2 – 8:45 AM – 9:15 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

The voices of 17,478 officials have been heard. Recently completed, the NASO National Survey of Sports Officiating lays bare what has been learned about the men, women and young people who officiate. We now have hard data about why they start and why they end. We have uncovered the areas of surplus and the areas of shortage. We can show with certainty the most critical element needed in any recruitment effort. We grasp what it will take to keep officials officiating longer. The numbers, the analytics, the charts, the correlations – on display for the first time.

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What Exactly is the Problem?
Time: M3 – 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Lip service has well been paid! This session gets down to cases. The main challenges staring officiating smack in its face. A trip to “pity city” clears the air. Loss of civility and poor behavior call the question: who wants to do this job? Building the infrastructure – whose job is it? Who are the best candidates for your program? Do we recruit harder or retain smarter? Officials are worth more than they are paid…aren’t they? The burden of ever-increasing scrutiny. Officials as their own worst enemies. A stout line up of background-noise-clearing discussions and opinions from a group that has been at the front lines.

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Getting to a Yes
Time: M4 – 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: TBD

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Time to get your hands dirty! A whole new “ballgame” for the Summit! A dozen interactive workshop sessions. Each one with the specific purpose of having a small group collaborate, using their best thinking on that topic – to uncover and state a solution to that unique challenge. Will be hard, fast work – just like refereeing! We can do it. Twelve groups meeting independently and then preparing to provide their reveals at a special session on Tuesday afternoon. Participants will be pre-assigned (no whining permitted). Here are the topics: Public relations, Treatment of officials, Inclusiveness, Social media as a tool, Local association culture, Incentivizing officials, Mentoring, The “elevator pitch,” Succession planning, Managing expectations, Funding, The “pipeline.”

Public Relations – Speakers:

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Treatment Of Officials – Speakers:

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Inclusiveness – Speakers:

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Local Association Culture – Speakers:

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Mentoring – Speakers:

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The “Elevator Pitch,” – Speakers:

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Succession planning – Speakers:

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Managing Expectations – Speakers:

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Funding – Speakers:

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Funding – Speakers:

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Exhibitor Showcase
Time: M5 – 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom A

What’s new? What works? What will make any officiating program better? The largest gathering of products and services serving officiating. From leading-edge companies and organizations. This place and this time – set aside for you to immerse yourself, introduce yourself, inform yourself. In just a few steps you experience the latest tools, techniques and tested programs to help you better manage, lead and administer sports officiating programs.

The Officiating Industry Luncheon
Time: M6 – 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

The Officiating Industry Luncheon (OIL) is the largest attended event of every Summit. A superbly-catered meal followed by remarks on the state of sports and officiating by a representative of the NFHS and by Barry Mano, president of NASO. The audience is composed of the best and brightest in the world of officiating – at all levels. The OIL provides the only annual national-overview of the main accomplishments and the primary challenges of officiating management: high school, youth, collegiate and professional. A must for any officiating leader.

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Emcee:

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Shop Talk: Sport-By-Sport Breakouts
Time: M7 – 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Location: TBD

Express yourself: watch, listen, learn. Sport-by-sport video breakdown sessions that have record-breaking attendance every Summit. Immerse yourself in a sport you work or manage. Led by some of the most respected and renowned officials. Watch the play, hear the breakdown, listen to the dialog and then add your perspective. Together with the others, you help to build the body of officiating knowledge and practice. Hands on. Ears open. Mind engaged.

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You Get to Call It
Time: M8 – 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Never met a call we didn’t like! We used to call these “great” calls but truth be told, they were always TOUGH calls – made by great officials. An array of plays, presented big-screen and in HD. Presented by the people who lived through and with them. You get to vote…let your clicker be your guide. Your vote is tallied and quickly the audience makes its voice heard – on full display in the front of the ballroom. Terrific mix of education and entertainment – just plain energizing to watch officials work through plays worth remembering.

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After Further Review with Mike Pereira
Time: M9 – 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Back by overwhelming popular demand! FoxSports celebrated football-officiating analyst, Mike Pereira will have his mojo working. First, his stand-up monolog about the trends in officiating and the impact of media on that. Then Mike, using the Tonight Show as a template, brings to the sofa, noted personalities – each with opinions, stories and personal remembrances about officiating. The interaction is stirring, never dull and can be emotional. A unique concept for the Summit – one guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

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Day 3 – Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

 

 

 

Skills for a Lifetime
Time: T1 – 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Here are some really good reasons why we officiate! Based on the feature story in Referee magazine celebrating its 40th birthday. Accenting the positive enables us to light a fire in others – getting them thinking about joining this undertaking. On a practical level, officiating gives us skills for a lifetime: fair-minded, decisive, accountable. These stand us in good stead in throughout our lives. To say nothing of the emotional bonds created in officiating. Our panel will touch and touch you on this score. They will help everyone in the audience uncover ways to Say Yes to Officiating.

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Actions Speaking Louder Than Words
Time: T2 – 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Here’s what’s “real” in officiating. Each panelist is tasked with showing an innovative, out-of-the-box program or initiative to recruit, retain, support and celebrate officials. You will see the videos, the ads, the posters, the websites. You will hear about the unique clinics, the “tree of officiating,” the 9-Rules initiative, the “Thank-A-Ref” campaign and many others. Each panelist has primary responsibility for the topic being presented. This session alone will give you the “takeaways” you come to the Summit to find. It works for them. It can work for you.

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GameChangers
Time: T3 – 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location: TBD

The game keeps changing on us! One of the Summit’s most practical bank of sessions! Shorter presentations, fast-paced and each focused on a topic of unique importance. Each Game Changer has been carefully selected by NASO. You will be able to attend more than one of these sessions because of the way they are timed. Each speaker has a concept or a product that can be a Game Changer for you and your officiating program. Every year, this session gets rave reviews for its practical and timely presentations.

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The Assigner’s Impact
Time: T4 – 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

That’s Assigner with a capital “A.” Officiating assigners have an outsized and often inordinate impact on officials and the organizations that use their services. Thousands of assigners blanket the country, doling out millions (yes, millions!) of officiating assignments. They are a large, completely independent array of private businesses. They provide important and valuable services. At the same time, they can be the bane of schools, conferences, leagues, to say nothing of the officials themselves. Good assigning practice and policy can go a long way in helping bring new officials in and hanging on to current officials longer. That needs to be a goal embraced by assigners.

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Lunch Workshops: Food for Your Thoughts
T5 – 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: TBD

• Managing Up

First there is position power. Next there is leadership.
Many “leaders” look left, look right and mostly look down. They are looking at the folks they have been hired to work with and to “lead.” That is the path trod most often. But, and that is a big word here, they often get too busy to look up – at those they report to. Effectiveness and longevity comes only with looking up…managing up to those who have your fate in their hands. Careers crash, standing suffers, political capital gets wasted, desired outcomes become outliers when the expectations from on high don’t mesh with the goals you’ve set for your administration. Time for a personal check up.

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• State High School Association Leadership Forum

Invitation-only, closed-door, workshop for state high school office executives, staff members and invited guests – a unique opportunity to share ideas and best practices. Topics include: new requirements for officials, how and when to discipline, public-statements about officiating, state-tournament officiating selections, turning video into a program that can teach, improved interpretation meetings, recruitment efforts, background checks, budgeting tied to registration fees and much more.

• Legal and Insurance Q & A

Go ahead, ask your question. Past Summits make clear – attendees want to ask questions. They want hard information about the law and legal responsibilities that affect officials and organizations that use their services. They want definite, understandable answers to the questions they have about insurance coverages and potential risks. These areas are two bedrocks of smart, savvy and sensible officiating practice in the litigious world we find ourselves practicing in. This workshop is presented by renowned speakers, each of whom has years of experience servicing and supporting the sports officiating industry. Bring something to take good notes!

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Now We Say Yes to Officiating
Time: T6 – 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM
Location: Grand Ballroom BC

Okay, get ready for the big reveal! Summit attendees have worked so hard. Especially in the M7 Workshop session. That session evaluated, discussed and argued over 12 key topics. (Review the description of the M7 session to refresh your memory.) Now, that work is done and the results have been assembled. This session will be the reveal of those results and some are stunning. This session will be a gift – providing so much information and insight to take back to the office. Guaranteed to be one of the most revealing and riveting sessions in Summit history.

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