Strategic Plan

GNS Strategic Plan 2023-2028

Gymnastics Nova Scotia Statement of Mission: To provide and promote the opportunity for everyone in Nova Scotia to experience the sport of gymnastics in a safe, encouraging and inclusive environment.

To best achieve this mission, GNS has identified a set of targets under the following five areas of focus for the upcoming 5-year period:

ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS

• Develop a strategy to recruit expertise from other areas to BOD
• Create and standardize formal athlete representative positions at program committee and potentially board level
• Fill Technical Director role
• Split coach education from TD role and possibly include in provincial coach job description
• Investigate funding/honorarium for program committee leads to recognize workload and investment of time
• Create 4-year term expectation for program committee chairs
• Firmly revisit splitting provincial coach funds into 3 discipline leads
• Review budget to reallocate excess into programs, athletes (if savings exist since team travel canceled)
• Investigate KidSport team funds as a potential funding source
• Use the Sport Development Tool communication plan
• Continue to contract out social media, pleased with strategy
• Include more local content (i.e. NS pics over stock photos)

TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP - COACHING AND OFFICIATING

• Develop a target number of LF’s regionally
• Increase number of LF’s
• Develop a master LF
• Increase HP certification for T&T, maintain WAG/MAG levels
• Continue to lobby for T&T course availability and increased levels of communication from GYMCAN
• Create more exposure opportunities for HP coaches
• Develop a strategy that works for CSIA and GNS re: provincial coach position
• Judging – continue to build on success from the last strategic plan where recruiting and training judges was a large priority
• Continue to/increase high level exposure opportunities for judges

PARTICIPATION 

Recreation

• Define GNS role in initiating recreational programs
• Support partnerships with business plans and other resources (ex. Jump Into Gymnastics)
• Develop strategies to support expansion of membership at existing facilities
• Use Tumblebugs programs as a vehicle to introduce gymnastics and create partnerships to African Nova Scotian and Indigenous communities across the province

Underrepresented Groups

• Pursue annual gender-free competition
• Research and provide certification for any coaches coaching members with diverse needs, funded by GNS
• Institute requirement for all coaches to complete online Indigenous Coaching modules, funded by GNS

Safe Sport

• Link to National/Provincial Safe Sport free programming
• Review By-Laws and Policies for updated complaint process
• Institute requirement for athlete, and parent Safe Sport education upon team qualification as a pre-requisite to team membership
• Continue to align with National and Provincial strategies and provide current education/information to membership

EXCELLENCE

• Use Sport Development Tool - NS Performance Pathways reporting requirements to stay on top of goals and targets
• Define results-based markers
• Build on noteworthy culture of fun and achievement in competitive
• Celebrate and take advantage of spirit of cooperation amongst clubs

CELEBRATION/RECOGNITION & SPORT PROMOTION

• Host annual awards celebration
• Renewed focus on ongoing recognition of athlete accomplishments in local media (press releases, regular results submissions to news outlets) as celebration & promotional tool
• Continue to build on and grow Gymnaestrada

The GNS Board of Directors shall use this strategic plan to guide its programming,using annual assessments to track progress. This set of strategic goals shall be reevaluated at the conclusion of the five-year term.