Creating high performing non-profit sport organisations

This chapter outlines and discusses the three principles of managing HP sport. These principles are (a) the elite athlete development process, (b) the determinants of managing HP sport, and (c) the strategic management of HP sport. These three principles take the reader on an educational journey that starts from the examination of managing the talent identification and development pathways, to the exploration of the macro, meso and micro environments and the factors within them that influence success in the athlete and sport development process. It concludes with the importance of managing sport in a strategic fashion in order to achieve a competitive advantage and maintain long term success in managing HP sport. The chapter offer a fictional case study on how to develop a HP strategy for a sport organisation (the Olympic Committee in Papua New Guinea - PNGOC) that can be used as a class activity or an assignment.