Coordinate athletic or sporting events or activities
Part of the output can be produced by software today.
An agent can propose the plan, chase the replies and keep the record current. To actually change anything it needs write access to a calendar or work system, and a person still owns the tradeoffs when two plans collide.
| How automatable | Partly automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Scheduling, planning and resource control |
| Jobs that do it | 2 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Tools and auth, Builders |
| O*NET activity | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others (4.A.4.b.1) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 2 occupations that perform it.
- Plan, organize, and conduct practice sessions.
- Officiate at sporting events, games, or competitions, to maintain standards of play and to ensure that game rules are observed.
- Arrange and conduct sports-related activities, such as training camps, skill-improvement courses, clinics, and pre-season try-outs.
- Signal participants or other officials to make them aware of infractions or to otherwise regulate play or competition.
- Plan and direct physical conditioning programs that will enable athletes to achieve maximum performance.
- Resolve claims of rule infractions or complaints by participants and assess any necessary penalties, according to regulations.
- Develop and arrange competition schedules and programs.
- Confer with other sporting officials, coaches, players, and facility managers to provide information, coordinate activities, and discuss problems.
- Serve as organizer, leader, instructor, or referee for outdoor and indoor games, such as volleyball, football, and soccer.
- Keep track of event times, including race times and elapsed time during game segments, starting or stopping play when necessary.
- Start races and competitions.
- Direct participants to assigned areas, such as starting blocks or penalty areas.
What we would actually use
One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for scheduling, planning and resource control, and what it costs.
Scheduling is a connector problem rather than an intelligence one, and $9 a month of Make covers both the calendar and the chasing. An agent platform priced per seat adds nothing you would notice here.
Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.
The rest of the category
Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.
Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.
How people actually do it
No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.
Who does this work
2 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Coordinate artistic or entertainment activities”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
| Activity | Jobs |
|---|---|
| Direct productions or performances | 7 |
| Coordinate artistic activities | 7 |
| Manage content of broadcasts or presentations | 6 |
| Coordinate musical rehearsals or performances | 3 |
Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.