Performance Lifestyle Field of Management: Experience and change over 10 years
Presentation Objectives • A wee bit about Scotland • Timeline of Deve...
Performance Lifestyle Field of Management: Experience and change over 10 years
Presentation Objectives • A wee bit about Scotland • Timeline of Development • Overview of Performance Lifestyle • Measuring Impact
Welcome to Bonnie Scotland • Where to find us • A Celtic Nation – Scots dialect • Population – 5 million • Part of the United Kingdom – TEAM GB • Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales • 8 Network Centres - Highland and Islands, Grampian, Tayside, Central, East and West • Athletes – Age 7 to 70
Scots • “It’s a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht” • Aye and Nae • Dreich • Ben the hoose • Bonnie • Glaikit • Bairns • Besom • Wee
Scots •
“A braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht” – It’s a beautiful, bright, moonlit night tonight.
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Aye and Nae – Yes and No
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Dreich - Raining
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Ben the hoose – In the next room
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Bonnie – good looking
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Glaikit – Not bonnie!
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Bairns - Children
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Besom - Naughty
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Wee – young or small
Where’s Scotland?
Where’s Scotland?
Performance Lifestyle – The Programme
Brief History…. •
1996 Atlanta Games athlete report
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1997 sportscotland pilot scheme - ACE
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1998 Scottish Institute of Sport set up
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1998 UK Licence set up – ACE UK
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2003 ACE UK Licence review….and change!
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2004 UK Sport Performance Lifestyle
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2009 UK Sport handover Performance Lifestyle to HCISs
In The Beginning…. • Scottish Institute of Sport – Small organisation • Aim: Success on the world stage • 9 Core Sports + Individual Athlete Programme • Institute Coaches and Institute Athletes • SIS based on the VIS Model in Australia • ACE in from the beginning • ACE Advisers – 1 FT plus 6 sessional staff
Process of Change • ACE - Athlete Career and Education • ACE Advisers – paid by the hour • Structure based on people not facilities • Scottish Institute of Sport and Area Institutes of Sport • Impact on performance? • Institute Sports and Coaches • Regional model of delivery • ACE Manual • Paperwork
Now • Performance Lifestyle • Staff – significant increase in employed staff ( 1 to 10) • sportscotland institute of sport – One Network • Investment in quality bespoke facilities • Sport is our client • High Performance Management • Multi disciplinary delivery • World Class Systems/Quality Services • Projects, Research and Innovation • Less paper!
Overview of Change – Structures/Processes 1998 - then
2012 - now
Organisation
Scottish Institute of Sport
sportscotland institute of sport
Regions
SIS + 6 Area Institutes
One Institute Network
Programme
ACE UK
Performance Lifestyle
Sports
9 Core Sports + Individual Athletes
54 Sports – 650 athletes
Sports
Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth Games, Pro Sports (Rugby and Golf)
Same – now with more sports.
Overview of Change – Staff 1998 - then
2012 - now
Accreditation
Grad Cert – Athlete Career and Education Management
ILM Coaching and Mentoring Level VII plus UK PL Accreditation
Staff: Athlete Ratio
1: 150
1: 80
Staff
1 FT Coordinator 6 Contracted Staff
1 Head of Discipline 1 Assistant Head 4 Senior Practitioners 4 Adviser Practitioners
Staffing Levels
2 – flat structure/limited career progression
4 Staffing Levels (I – IV) plus Internship programme
What do we do?
1 7
Performance Lifestyle… • It’s about performance and managing the factors that influence performance • Facilitates the achievement of excellence in sport • Provides integration within the diverse and unique lifestyle of players and athletes • Provides pathways to achieving success after sport
Programme Areas • Performance Planning – The 4 P’s • Support Performance – Athlete, Coach and Sport • Identify Goals – Challenges/Distractions • Athlete Development Transition • Talent Retention • Athlete Health and Wellbeing • Athlete Independence
Delivery Mechanisms • Lifestyle Profile and Review Profile • Transition Management • Lifestyle Management • Education Guidance and Career Planning • APD – Sports and Athletes • Athlete Health and Wellbeing • Rest and Recovery • Referral
Athlete Development and Transition
Core of PL Work – Talent Retention On average, athletes will face 7 key transitions in their sporting career including: • Junior to Senior transition This change often coincides with a range of non – sporting transitions • Retirement 20% of athletes suffer psychologically when adjusting to retirement
Athlete Development and Transition AGE
Athletic development
5
10
Initiation
15
20
Potential
Primary education
Secondary education
Individual development
Childhood
Puberty Adolescence
Parents Siblings Peers
Peers Coach Parents
30
Performance
Academic / occupational development
Psycho-social development
25
Higher education
35
Discontinuation
Professional occupation
(Young) Adulthood
Partner Coach
Adapted by PL SIS - Developmental Model (Source: Paul Wylleman, University of Brussels)
Family Coach Peers
Quality Services…Key Elements • The Performance Lifestyle Programme • The Staff • Framework - which adapts to the needs of IN, Sports & Athletes • Accreditation, Training and CPD
Quality Services…Key Elements • Quality Assurance and Benchmarking • Best Practice • Multi-disciplinary and Multi-agency Partnership – internally and externally • Research – Plan – Implement – Review
Multi Disciplinary Collaboration • Medicine – Health and Wellbeing/Recovery • Physiology – Lifestyle Monitoring/Recovery • Psychology – Transition/Lifestyle • Clinical Psychology – Mental Health/Anxiety • Amenorrhea – Clinical Psych, Medicine, Physiology, Nutrition, Performance Lifestyle
Employed Staff Senior Post Contracted Staff Vacant Post New Post
ADVISER GRAMPIAN 0.8FTE
ADVISER CENTRAL 1FTE
ADVISER HIGHLAND CONTRACT 12Hrs/Week
INTERNSHIP
ADVISER TAYSIDE 0.6FTE
ADVISER EAST 1.8FTE
ADVISER EAST CONTRACT 6Hrs/Week
PL Accreditation and Training
PL Competency Framework
Mentoring Support
ILM Coaching and Mentoring Level VII
Athlete Transition Career Development
Share Best Practice
Individualised CPD
Are we making a difference?
Team GB: Atlanta to London 80 70 60 50
GOLD SILVER
40
BRONZE TOTAL
30
MEDAL TABLE
20 10 0 ATLANTA 1996
SYDNEY 2000
ATHENS 2004
BEIJING 2008
LONDON 2012
Team GB: Medal Table TEAM GB TABLE PLACING 40 35 30 25 20
TEAM GB TABLE PLACING
15 10 5 0 ATLANTA 1996
SYDNEY 2000
ATHENS 2004
BEIJING 2008
LONDON 2012
Scotland – 12th on the Medal Table ☺ 40 35 30 25 TEAM GB TABLE PLACING
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SCOTLAND 15 10 5 0 ATLANTA 1996
SYDNEY 2000
ATHENS 2004
BEIJING 2008
LONDON 2012
Scotland - and the Rest of the World! 120
100
80
60 Gold 40
Silver Bronze
20
0
Total
What have I learnt? • The people – worth their weight in gold! • Implement research and new ideas • Stay solution focused • Share best practice • Partnerships - essential • Framework – for Quality Assurance and Benchmarking • Multi disciplinary engagement • Control the controllables. Make decisions about the uncontrollables. • Enjoy the journey!
