About

The vision of the “Floorball: Fit for Future” (4F) project is to improve the level of national associations and establish a truly strategic management system which will allow the floorball community to grow, respond better to current and future challenges, become even more accessible, and ultimately provide the best conditions possible for all current and new players, referees, coaches, officials, volunteers, and fans.

The specific objective of the 4F project is to create a general strategic organizational development tool that will merge experiences, know-how and best practice of all participants as well as relevant external experts and will offer universal as well as practical solutions applicable to organisational development in floorball or other national sports governing bodies.

The project is based on cooperation between mentee National Federations from Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain and Slovakia and mentor National Federations from the Czech Republic, Sweden and Switzerland and their mutual interaction, sharing of best practice and networking, so that mentees are supported to create strategic goals for their development and provided with tools for their implementation. At the same time, the project shall give mentors a chance to revise their own development strategy and processes taking into account newly acquired experience and broader context of development of floorball in Europe. International Floorball Federation is also taking part in the project supervising quality, relevancy and utility of the deliverables with regard to their future use.

Project cycle

Main outputs

A General Strategic Development Tool containing following elements:

A comprehensive description of all operations within the association in form of a Summary what and why federation should take care about in order to secure common understanding and priorities.

Analytical Self-Assessment Questionnaire to help the associations asses the state of their development and a baseline for subsequent development strategies

Maturity Matrix is unique system with scales in operational areas (see the Summary) used to evaluate and compare individual organizations based on comparable criteria as well as identify their strengths and weaknesses (read: more and less developed areas)

Handbook for Development complemented with guidance documents to offer a well-working tool covering universal processes as well as practical solutions for organisational development and Case studies of current best practices of NAs available within the strategic development and organisational operations.

Methodology of a creation process of a Development Action Plan focused mostly on Delay Causes and less developed areas identified based on Questionnaire and Maturity Matrix.