Singapore Sports Council and National Sports Associations to improve professional management

Following a series of consultation sessions with Singapore's National Sports Associations (NSAs), the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) will be rolling out an improved organisational excellence (OE) framework to enhance the NSAs'professional management.
Introducing the framework, SSC Chief Executive Lim Teck Yin explained "we have heard the NSAs' feedback, understand their difficulties and are working together to help them find solutions to the challenges that they face."
The SSC first introduced the OE framework in 2006 to help NSAs be run more effectively. Now, a key enhancement to the OE framework is a stronger emphasis on leadership development and succession planning. The outcomes and components for effective leadership development will be clearly spelled out for the NSAs and the SSC to jointly work on them.
The OE framework requires NSAs to have systems and processes that ensure leadership development and business continuity. NSAs are also encouraged to promote diversity within their management committees by bringing onboard members with different skill sets in areas such as finance, accounting, legal, audit, marketing and sponsorship, fund raising, and technical knowledge.
To give NSAs time to bring onboard the enhanced framework, it will be phased in over two years from 2013 to 2014.
Working closely with the Centre for Non-Profit Leadership (CNPL), the SSC will also step up efforts in matchmaking NSAs with volunteers who are capable and willing to take up leadership positions in NSAs.
Lim added "CNPL has informed us that there is an active pool of people who have indicated their interest to serve in the sports sector. This is encouraging, and we hope the NSAs will tap into this pool."
Reiterating the importance of the professional management of NSAs, Lim added "our objective of working together to enhance the professional management of NSAs will auger well for stronger collaborations and sponsorships with Corporate Singapore. In implementing this system, we will continue to work closely with NSAs to provide guidance, support and resources. We will monitor the progress and further tweak the system, if necessary, to keep pace with how NSAs progress."
Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) President Jeffery Leow added "the swimming fraternity is encouraged by the SSC's collaborative efforts to engage and grow with us as a sporting community. At the SSA, we have always strived to adopt the best practices in the management of our organisation and are always looking to level up our organisation and deliver the sport to the people professionally. The refined OE framework will definitely help us to achieve that."

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