Successful Seminar on Development and Marketing

TIJUANA, Mexico, November 1, 2013 – NORCECA Confederation held a successful and constructive seminar for National Federations of category I and II focused on Internal Organization, Marketing and Development Plans on Friday prior to its XXII Congress at Grand Hotel Tijuana.

The seminar was organized by Mushtaque Mohammed, president of the Development Commission of NORCECA and Secretary of the same kind of commission in FIVB. He was assisted by Nelson Ramirez and Yoana Mota, director and vice director, respectively, of the Regional Development Center in Dominican Republic.

Ms. Carol Charles Austin of Trinidad & Tobago was the lecturer on those topics and the participants had the opportunity to exchange ideas, make questions during the very interactive sessions.

Charles Austin began her exposition explaining the importance of strengthening the national volleyball federations with a better internal organization and the selection of the right people for each position.

Then she continued with detailed information about the development of a marketing plan for the activities of the volleyball associations making emphasis on the different targets and also the properties of the institution.

In the afternoon session, she explained the audience how to prepare a development plan to be presented to the governmental authorities and the external agencies.

On the legal subject, Giovanni Gautreau and Jaime Lamboy spoke about all the modifications introduced to the constitution of FIVB during the past world congress in Anaheim and the necessity to adapt NORCECA’s to the current legal situation.

Gautreau of Dominican Republic is the current president of the Legal Commission of NORCECA while Lamboy of Puerto Rico presides over the Legal Commission of FIVB.

To conclude the session, Cristobal Marte Hoffiz, President of NORCECA, presented the Technical Report of FIVB sent by Helgi Thorsteinsson, who couldn’t be present for personal reasons.