Essential Guidance and Planning Documents
Essential Guidance and Planning Documents
This section provides foundational resources to help NSO leaders, wellbeing leads, and operational staff build or strengthen wellbeing systems in high performance environments. It includes practical guidance, templates, and tools that support onboarding, offboarding, selection processes, and day‑to‑day wellbeing practice.
Use this section when you need clear, ready‑to‑use documents that support athletes, coaches, staff, and whānau across the performance pathway.
Roles and responsibilities
This section helps NSOs define who is responsible for wellbeing activities within their organisation. It provides guidance notes and templates to clarify roles, set expectations, and support shared accountability across teams.
Use this section when you are creating new roles, reviewing existing responsibilities, or aligning people to wellbeing expectations.
Policies and processes
This section supports NSOs to develop, review, and embed policies and processes that influence wellbeing in high performance environments. It includes step‑by‑step guidance, review tools, checklists, and templates that help ensure policies are consistent, user‑centred, and applied in practice.
Use this section when you are updating policies, creating new processes, or checking that existing systems reflect a wellbeing‑first approach.
Policy guidance developed with a wellbeing lens
Policy guidance developed with a wellbeing lens
This section provides targeted guidance for specific policy areas, including athlete voice, codes of conduct, safeguarding, health and safety, privacy, and technology use. Each topic is framed with wellbeing at the centre to support strong, safe, and effective policy development.
Use this section when you need focused advice to shape or refine policy in a high performance sport context.