T&T Olympic Committee president, Larry Romany was one of the feature speakers at the  Norceca International Sport Management Seminar for National Federations Category I and II which began on Tuesday in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The seminar is organised by the FIVB Regional Development Centre in Dominican Republic and the co-ordinator of the seminar is Mushtaque Mohammed, T&T Volleyball Federation president and vice-president of Norceca in charge of development. Also in attendance were Jizhong Wei, president of Federation International VolleyBall and NORCECA president Cristobal Marte Hoffiz.

During Tuesday’s first session, Mohammed referred to the importance of development and its necessity and Romany made a masterful dissertation on the Strategic Planning. Wei also explained the structure and operations of FIVB and Marte Hoffiz spoke about Norceca Confederation and its development plan.
During the afternoon, Romany and Helgi Thorsteinsson, FIVB Director of Development, continued on the topic of the strategic planning while Chrissy Benz commented about the development of leaders and working with volunteers.

Thorsteinsson explained the programmes of Cool Volley and All Volleyball Festivals as well as the Development Fund and Strategic Leadership while Mohammed spoke about the structure of the National Federations and the role of the different officers. At the end of the afternoon it was organised a practical workshop about strategic management with the participants divided in groups of six individuals.

Source: www.guardian.co.tt