Welcome to the UPA's strategic planning forum! As you may know the UPA is undergoing a major strategic planning process. The final product of this process will be a long-term strategic plan, a living document, that will be titled "Ultimate Revolution." At this point in the process, the UPA has performed an initial assessment utilizing several on-line surveys from which we've over 7,000 total responses and a handful of community forums. These have helped us to assess where Ultimate is now, where the UPA is now and how various stakeholders (players, coaches, observers, parents, ex-players, school administrators, business and media partners, and anyone who has an interest in the sport of Ultimate) currently relate to Ultimate and the UPA.
Currently, the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) is in the process of developing a final assessment document which will highlight the UPA's and Ultimate's current strengths and challenges.
We are also hosting community forums throughout the US and Canada this spring where elements of this assessment will be presented and participants will be asked to share their opinions on some of the big future-focused questions.
The UPA SPC recongnizes that there is no way that we can host enough forums that will be accessible to everyone who has an interest in the sport and so we have created this blog as a virutual forum for you to give your input on the future of Ultimate.
Here in this blog you will find some of the most significant assessment findings.
•Spirit of the Game
•Self-Offciated Play
•Membership
•Credibility/Legitimacy
•Canada and Beyond
Once you've read through the assessment findings, you can add your comments by heading over to our future-focused questions from the links on the left side navigation bar or by simply scrolling down on the home page of the blog.
Before commenting, please feel free to re-read the assessment findings related to the questions as well as the discussion ground rules listed at the top left of the blog.
A moderator has been assigned to each major discussion topic to help keep the discussion active and on track. The moderator also has the right to remove posts that are in violation of the discussion ground rules. Obviously, the UPA would prefer to "police" the discussion as little as possible so please be respectful of your fellow posters, most of whom you could encounter on an Ultimate field.
The blog will be open for comments until May 16th at which point we will close it and use the comments to help develop the final assessment.
If there are questions that you would like to see added please e-mail the UPA SPC at upa_spsc (at) upa.org. We can not gaurantee that we would add your question as we would have to look at the assessment data so far.
If you have any comments about the usability of the site please e-mail kyle.weisbrod (at) upa.org
