1 CSOA REFEREEING AS A TEAM Chris Dowell February 4, 2012

2 What does this Board bring to the table? Board member 2011 Example of great teamwork Purpose Commitment Leadership Roles Trust Communications Hard work Fun

3 What does the Board do? Take care of operations Manage the finances Deal with all the good stuff The other stuff is handled confidentially

4 What do CSOA members bring to the table? Professionalism Commitment Hard work Willingness to work for low pay in harsh conditions Experience (another way of saying gray hair) Love of the game Welcome New members

5 What do CSOA matches bring to the table? High expectations from players, coaches, spectators, ourselves Challenging matches Great atmosphere – hard to beat Friday night A place to work on our game A place to improve professionally

– the world we live in We live in a world of teamwork Professionally Leisure time – DC United, Redskins, Capitals, Wizards, Nationals, UVA, U Md, Duke… CSOA Teams define us Teamwork dominates our thoughts: remember Albert Haynesworth

7 USSF Teamwork Presentation Fouls and Misconduct Fouls outside the box, inside the box Mass confrontation Free kicks, walls Throw in, corner kick, goal kick Goals, ball in, ball not in Penalty kicks

8 Laws of the Game Law 5 …referee controls the match in cooperation with the assistant referee… Law 6 …assistant referees also assist the referee to control the match in accordance with the Laws of the Game.

9 Professional Referee Associations USSF NFL NBA Here is what they say: Can’t do it alone It takes a team to get it right

10 What does a team need to be successful? Goals Roles Process Relationship (sense of team) Mutual Trust Mutual Respect Communications Feedback Mutual Influence

11 Goals We get this – this is part of who we are We train to this Safety Fair Play Enjoyment

12 Roles Functional roles Responsibility roles Leader – clear vision, credible, creates trust Support – willingness to be led Washington Post article Successful leadership is not so much about leadership as it is about having people who are willing to be led.

13 Roles Washington Post article 10 th round draft pick Not on a well performing team In college everyone in the locker room wanted what was best for the team; in the pros its every man for himself; its about his numbers today, not about wining or losing.

14 Process High level of standardization > 95% the same I think we get this too We prove this all the time Tournaments Compressed schedules

15 Relationship Mutual trust Mutual respect Communications Feedback Mutual influence – open to what you say, open to what I say Without these the team is less than 100%

16 Less than 100% is not good enough Comair Flight 5191 August 27, 2006 Take off from Lexington, KY Used wrong runway Game changing event Factors: weather, equipment, fatigue, teamwork Where was the teamwork?

17 Couple of quotes …majority of game changing calls involve referee team interaction. …without clear understanding of roles the team runs the risk of getting the call wrong.

18 How build a team? It does not always happen automatically Address goals, roles, process Build the sense of team

19 So what? We can’t do it alone We have specific roles to play Teamwork does not just happen Have to build sense of team Less than 100% is not always good enough Continue doing the great job you are doing