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Loaded with tips and practical information to help you lead your officiating organization, NASO's ONLine e-newsletter is a valuable free monthly publication for everyone involved in all types of sports officiating organizations. Please feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone else who might find it valuable or sign up to get on the e-mail list here.
For more information on how the National Association of Sports Officials-Organizations Network can help your association, visit our website at www.naso-on.org. |
WideNet
Take our monthly poll
(results will be seen next month):
In how many sports does your association provide training?
(Please choose only one):
• One.
• Two.
• Three.
• Four.
• Five or more.
Click here to fill out survey
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| Boost Meeting Attendance with Rewards |
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Association meetings are important for many reasons. In reviewing surveys offered in the past by NASO-ON, most groups rate their meetings as fair and some rate them as dull. No wonder folks find reasons to skip the meetings! If your group is finding it difficult to get members in the door come meeting time, a way to keep the members interested is to reward them.
Organize an annual raffle. Members earn tickets for speaking, evaluating the work of other members, helping out at meetings, recruiting a new member, bringing a guest interested in officiating and even for just showing up. The idea is that the more active a member is, the more tickets he or she will accumulate and the more opportunity to win a prize. Prizes are presented at the club’s annual election meeting.
The prizes to be given away can be gift certificates to local restaurants or from officiating supply companies purchased with association funds. |
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NetWorks
• Has your organization found success? Share your experiences with other officiating groups nationwide.
• Had a successful recruitment drive? Tell us about it.
• Successfully defended a lawsuit? Share your story.
• Think you have a pretty good website? Tell us why.
We'll feature your association and spread the word about all the great ways to deal with such issues as leadership, training, evaluations, assigning, technology, communication, meetings, membership, legal issues, discipline measures, group policies, mentoring and more. (Click here to share your experiences) |
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Here are the results from ONLine's 1/10 WideNet Survey question:
What non-officiating-related event does your association engage in?
| Golf outing. |
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| None. |
20% |
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| Other. |
18% |
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| Outing to pro or college game. |
17% |
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| Educate Coaches and Players |
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There are many advocates for officials to becomes teachers of the rules. Before confrontational situations arise, get players and coaches correct information about the rules, break some of the “myths” and help promote sportsmanship in your community.
Officials should be ready to teach coaches and players. When players and coaches simply read the rules, they don’t get a feeling for the interpretations and how officials apply rules in game situations. They don’t see the spirit of the game.
Doing it on the field can be the wrong place — educating in a more formal setting is the right place. Reaching out to the youth, senior, high school and college leagues and offering your organization’s time and expertise to educate players and coaches about the rules can result in fewer headaches when the season begins.
Every association has members well-versed in the rules who can offer to talk to coaches and players about rule changes and interpretations. That allows players and coaches a chance to understand the reasons for rules and what to expect in their interpretations. It humanizes officials. It also humbles officials to know and understand the other side of situations by some of the questions posed to them.
Consider whether it’s time for your association to spread some goodwill and knowledge about the game you love. |
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| How to Handle the 'Complaint Department' |
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The right to complain seems inherent among officials. Officials complain about game fees, coaches, dressing facilities and their local chapter. No official should be denied the right to complain — everyone else does it; so why should officials be denied that inalienable right? (Click here for the rest of this FREE story at the NASO-ON website)
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NASO-ON provides a helping hand to officials associations in accomplishing everyday association management tasks. Here are six great resources available to help you better manage your association through your NASO-ON membership. Here are six ways to take full advantage of your NASO-ON benefits and services. |
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Guide to Local Association Management. Association management made simple. The guide provides 12 in-depth and informative chapters on Training, Assigning, Meeting Management, Public Relations, Contracts, Fund Raising, Your Organization’s Future, Mentoring That Works, How to Get and Keep Officials, Evaluating Officiating Performance, Accountability in Officiating and The Official’s Role in Improving Sportsmanship. A “must have” for all association leaders. |
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Newsletters. Written exclusively for association leaders and loaded with tips and practical information you can use that will help you better manage your association, ONBoard and ONLine identify the challenges association leaders face every day and provide real solutions you can use right away. Information you won’t find anywhere else. |
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Referee magazine. The special NASO members-only edition of Referee is simply the best educational and instructional resource for officials produced today. The original magazine for sports officiating and the industry’s best known publication, Referee has set the journalistic standard for developing educational and training materials vital to sports officials.
Newly redesigned, the full-color magazine is packed with 72 pages of in-depth feature stories as only Referee can report them. Each issue also has news from the officiating world, journal-of-record reports and deep-coverage sport-specific sections with complete rule interpretations and caseplays. |
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Members Information and Consultation Program (MICP). When an issue related to your officiating is concerning you, NASO’s MICP program can help.The MICP has two parts: Free information program handled by the staff of NASO and a consultation program through which NASO can put a member in contact with a knowledgeable person for an initial free consultation. When you feel the need to sort out an officiating-related issue, clarify your options or get helpful information, the MICP program is there for you. |
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Free publications program. Every new book published by NASO and Referee is available to your association free of charge. It’s a great program to help build your association’s educational and training library. |
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Insurance protection. The officiating industry's best insurance protection for associations, directors and officers.
Association General Liability Coverage is an optional benefit that provides general liability insurance to NASO-ON member officials associations. General liability coverage is offered exclusively to the NASO-ON member association, its officers, directors and committee members while acting in the capacity of an officials association, or as an officer, director or committee member of the association.
Association Director and Officers Coverage is a must for all local association leaders. The insurance covers the local officials association, its directors and officers, committee members and employees for wrongful acts.
Game Fee Reimbursement is an option providing coverage while the member official is engaging in officiating activities (which include assigning, chain crew, attending or operating officiating camps, clinics or meetings) during regularly scheduled sports or activities competition. Coverage is provided during officiating activities while traveling as part of a group in transportation furnished or arranged by the policyholder. Coverage is also provided while traveling directly to or from the insured’s home premises and site of such activities.
Excess Accident Medical Coverage. When a covered injury to a member results in treatment by a physician or surgeon within 30 days of the accident, the policy will pay up to a maximum benefit of $25,000 per occurrence after the $1,000 deductible amount has been met (eligible medical expenses payable under any other insurance policy or service contract will be used to satisfy or reduce the accident medical deductible). There is a $1,000 maximum benefit amount for dental expenses, outpatient physical therapy and orthopedic expenses. |
Make sure you are taking full advantage of your NASO-ON membership. Visit www.naso-on.org or call Angie Weaver at 262/632-5448 ext. 125 for more details on the services and benefits NASO-ON provides.
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NFHS Preseason Guides
Every association wants their members to be well trained, but sometimes cost is a factor. One of the best and most cost-effective ways to get your officials ready for the season is to get them all a copy of the NFHS Preseason Guide for their sport, or encourage them to purchase their own copy. With the latest rules, mechanics and points of emphasis straight from the NFHS, they are perfect for association or rules interpretation meetings because they give leaders talking points and they give your officials reference materials. Full-color photographs and Referee’s exclusive PlayPic® and MechaniGram® illustrations bring the content to life.
| 2010 Preason Volleyball Guide |
2010-11 Preason Wrestling Guide |
| 2010 Preason Soccer Guide |
2011 Preason Softball Guide |
| 2010 Preason Football Guide |
2011 Preason Baseball Guide |
| 2010-11 Leadership Officiating Guide |
2010-11 Preason Basketball Guide: Three-Person Mechanics |
| 2010-11 Preason Basketball Guide |
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Preseason Guides are available several months before each sport’s season starts.
Bulk discounts up to 45% are available for orders of 10 or more. Please call 262-632-8855 ext. 105 to place bulk orders.
Individuals can buy for ONLY $2.95 each or $2.35 for NASO Members
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Membership in NASO-ON provides a helping hand to officials associations, no matter how big or how small, in accomplishing everyday association management tasks. Just as NASO is an educational association for individual sports officials, NASO-ON effectively provides educational resources and management tools to leaders.
To date, more than 1,100 officials associations are active members of NASO-ON. Several states — including Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, South Dakota and Washington — provide NASO-ON membership to all recognized local officials associations.
Here are just a few of the articles NASO-ON members will read in the 3/10 issue of ONBoard:
• Your Association Has New Members: How Do You Keep Them?
• NASO Summit Sessions Are Geared Toward Leaders Like You
• Get to Know NASO-ON Insurance Options for Members, Directors and Officers |
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