How to onboard for coaches & admin

Running you through some tips to get the most from your account from day 1.

When you set up your account we will run you through what we call "onboarding". Basically, this means we try to help you get your account set up as quickly as possible so you can get to the good stuff and actually use the product! 

We run you through the below steps that we feel are vital to the success of your account. 

• Creating a username
• Validating your account
• Creating a school/club/university/governing body
• Adding athletes
• Organising your athletes into groups
• Adding staff
• Organising your staff into groups
• Creating your own personal profile

Creating a username

When you sign up we ask you to create a username. Many people ask "why can't I just use my email address as a username?". Well, MVP Analytics is a product that will allow you to have a profile wherever you go (you may move to a new job). Therefore if your work email address becomes inaccessible to you, you are still able to access your account and connect it to your new work email address afterwards. 

Validating your account 

When you first set up your account we ask you to validate your account in case of typos or wrong email addresses. This is very important for everyone in your organisation so that everyone will receive reminders and communications internally. It will also allow us to keep you in the loop for product updates and maintenance.

The email will look something like the below.

You will then be asked to create a password

Creating a school/club/university/governing body

Creating an account involves 3 parts. Uploading a logo (if you have one), writing a company bio or description and entering further information regarding your organisation (address and so on.)

Why ask for this information?

MVP Analytics is going to have some pretty cool features that include scouting which means that a company account is vital. And by creating an account with all the details you can it will mean that your profile looks as attractive as possible when you are connecting with athletes outside of your organisation. 

Uploading a logo is pretty simple and adding in some company information should be too. Just follow the instructions and fill in the short forms. All this information can be edited after onboarding. 

Adding athletes

Adding athletes to your account is the most crucial part of the success of your account. Athletes get the unique ability to set up their own personal profiles that will allow them to access their own data and educate themselves on its importance.

During the onboarding process, we have a simple way to get athletes into your system, ready for adding data to and managing on a day-to-day basis. It is as simple as adding their name and email addresses either by manually typing in the details as below or if you have an excel or CSV file then you can upload it here too. 

We also have a "nudge" feature, which means you can easily follow up with your athletes if they haven't yet accepted the connection and set up their profile. 

It is important for athletes to accept this connection so following up regularly is very strongly recommended! 

Organising your athletes into groups

Groups should be used to split your athletes down into manageable chunks for inviting to events and viewing data.

We recommend beginning with large groups such as a whole school year or age group e.g. Year 7 or U18s, you can then select from these to make more precise groups e.g. Year 7 - Cricket, U18 – Defenders.

All coaches can see all groups in the system, however, your administrator can set privileges for which groups and the athletes within those groups they can remove data from.

Read more about how to use groups in this article.

Adding staff

MVP Analytics is great for a single coach to use, but sometimes you may have multiple people that you would like to be using MVP Analytics. During onboarding, you are given the opportunity to invite some staff members to your account.

This means you can collaborate on various elements of your performance program but also have each staff member managing a team (potentially it might be 1st team and 2nd team). 

Organising your staff into groups

Organising staff into groups is essentially the same as athlete groups. After staff has been added just create some groups (Cricket, Hockey) then assign the appropriate staff member to that group. More on groups here

Creating your own personal profile

We have built MVP Analytics to be very adaptable and flexible. We have created a hierarchy that means the organisation is the account owner, with staff and athletes sitting within that organisation. 

Each staff member (and each athlete) will get a free profile that they can use as they wish.

The profile consists of some information including your name, date of birth etc. As well as a profile image and bio.