Straight answers to the questions club directors, coaches, and parents ask about ERA Skills: what the program includes, what it costs, how much coach time it takes, which ages it fits, who can see scores, and how we protect kids' data. Each answer stands on its own — start wherever your question is.
ERA Skills is a character development platform for competitive youth sports organizations — clubs, academies, leagues, and school athletic programs. It measures skills like leadership, teamwork, and communication through peer ratings and guided self-reflection — all reviewed by the coach — and turns them into skill scores and program-level impact reports.
Players see their own scores and their own growth — that self-awareness is central to the program. What no one sees: teammates' scores, rankings, or leaderboards. Peer ratings and comments are reviewed by the coach, and no player is ever compared against another.
One training session with the ERA Skills team to learn the curriculum, then about 10 minutes per assessment cycle from a phone. A season needs only 3–4 cycles to show measurable growth — discussion guides are included, so there's no lesson planning.
Each skill is scored from two angles: the athlete's own reflection and teammates' ratings, with the coach reviewing everything before it counts. Together they show each player's growth across the 5 skills over a season. Players see their own scores; coaches and programs use them to guide development and prove growth.
Yes — ERA Skills is built for U13–U18 athletes. Parental consent is collected before any athlete participates, with a separate flow for under-13s, and no scores are ever public: players see only their own, and parents see only their own child. See our Children's Privacy & Parental Consent Notice.
ERA Skills is designed for athletes aged 13–18 (roughly U13–U18), the range where self-reflection and peer feedback are developmentally meaningful. Under-13 participation requires verifiable parental consent.
ERA Skills is priced annually per organization: Starter for a single team, Club for multi-team programs, and Organization for large clubs. Every organization can start by applying for a one-team pilot. See current pricing at eraskills.com/pricing.
It isn't a replacement — it's the missing half. TeamSnap and SportsEngine run your logistics: rosters, schedules, payments. ERA Skills runs your development promise: measuring and proving character growth. Clubs use them side by side.
Yes — that's one of their main jobs. Impact reports show structured methodology and measurable developmental outcomes, which is exactly what grant reviewers ask for when they ask "how will you measure success?"
No. Reflections take a few minutes after selected sessions, on their own phone, away from the field. There are no grades or rankings to stress over — kids see their own growth, and most experience it as being asked, finally, what they think.
There's no self-serve trial — every ERA Skills club starts with coach training on the curriculum, delivered by our team. Qualifying clubs can request a free one-team pilot for a full season, ending with an impact report from their own data. Pilot spots are limited each season.
Through the coach. Once consent is in place, the coach or club admin issues each family a parent PIN that opens their child's view — their child's scores and the comments their child left about teammates. There's no public signup and no way to see another family's child.
A pilot includes the full program: the curriculum, hands-on training for your coach, and 3–4 assessment cycles — ending with an impact report built from your organization's own data. Because our team trains every pilot coach personally, we take on a limited number of organizations each season.