‘Life after sport’ question for equestrians
Sports, draw of piece of work concern in addition to academic experts joined elite international athletes inwards a give-and-take well-nigh the preparation for the workplace afterward their competitive career, at yesterday’s FEI Sports Forum inwards Switzerland.
“Is at that topographic point life afterward sport?” FEI President Princess Haya asked inwards her opening address.
“The increasing professionalisation of sport requires athletes to dedicate most of their fourth dimension to grooming in addition to competition. Often at an historic menses where others are starting their professional person education, athletes confront the job of combining intense grooming in addition to contest alongside professional person education,” she said.
“Society, every bit good every bit whatsoever responsible sports organisation, should enable its athletes to safeguard their hereafter during their sports careers past times providing them alongside opportunities to qualify for the task market.”
Although equestrian sport is to a greater extent than privileged than another sports, every bit at that topographic point is a whole manufacture offering employment, at that topographic point are persistent challenges.
Princess Haya described but about of the actions the FEI tin undertake to assist its athletes brand the transition from the competitive reason to a successful professional person career.
“We tin cooperate closely alongside the IOC inside its IOC Athlete Career Programme, which includes Olympic Movement, National Olympic Committees, International Federations in addition to National Federations,” she said.
“We tin generate awareness amidst our ain athletes of the demand for a professional person education. We tin cause cooperation betwixt the sport in addition to the Equus caballus sector. We tin supply our athletes alongside extensive information on professional person didactics opportunities worldwide. We tin – inwards cooperation alongside national entities – supply guidance in addition to information for athletes on occupation opportunities. We tin supply advice to National Federations on creating a national network of sport organisations, didactics institutions, occupation representatives, wellness in addition to fiscal authorities. And finally, nosotros tin offering our athletes flexible tools, such every bit online education, for accessing educational training.
“We, every bit the FEI, actually promise that, 1 day, onetime equestrian athletes volition serve us or the wider sport. It is thus inwards our involvement to create a ‘home-grown’ hereafter generation of world-class FEI leaders in addition to administrators who know our sport,” Princess Haya said.
Dr Harald Müller, FEI Executive Director Education in addition to Standards, presented a novel FEI online didactics projection which volition hold upwards providing the equestrian community alongside online grooming opportunities. This novel platform – FEI Campus – volition brand the FEI the start Olympic sports organisation introducing professional person online didactics for its stakeholders. This flexible tool volition also supply back upwards to the FEI Solidarity programmes.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board fellow member in addition to chair of the IOC Athletes Commission Claudia Bokel (GER) presented the IOC Athlete Career Programme (ACP), launched inwards 2005 in addition to renewed inwards 2012 through to 2020. The programme is offered past times the IOC in addition to the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) inwards co-operation alongside Adecco, the world’s largest provider of solutions inwards human resources.
The IOC Athlete Career Programme assists Olympic athletes inwards making the transition from the plain of play to the labour market, every bit good every bit companies looking to hire employees that volition brand a deviation inwards their workforce. The ACP offers an integrated approach of combining sport in addition to education, life skills in addition to occupation opportunities.
Since the creation of the programme, 32 National Olympic Committees on v continents receive got joined alongside the IOC in addition to Adecco. By the halt of 2012, outreach programmes had supported to a greater extent than than 10,000 athletes from over 100 countries alongside grooming opportunities in addition to task placements.
Maury Peiperl (USA), Professor of Leadership in addition to Strategic Change at IMD draw of piece of work concern school, made a lively presentation on the dependent plain of managing career transitions. He identified unlike career paths in addition to outlined their specific characteristics. He highlighted the fact that linear career evolution is no longer the norm in addition to that radical professional person changes are to a greater extent than frequent. The draw of piece of work concern reason is gradually becoming receptive to individuals such every bit athletes who come upwards from non-traditional backgrounds in addition to receive got been able to brand bold career decisions.
Thomas Batliner (LIE), onetime Olympic Jumping passenger in addition to investment consultant, in addition to Sergei Aschwanden (SUI), judo bronze medallist inwards the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, spoke of their experiences every bit elite athletes who receive got successfully transitioned into the draw of piece of work concern in addition to academic worlds. The fundamental roles of preparing the transition in addition to the athletes’ entourage were emphasised.
The panellists agreed that 1 of the biggest challenges facing athletes today was the lack of information well-nigh the tools facilitating career change. They stressed the importance of sports organisations getting closer to their athletes – at events in addition to seminars or through social media – to empathize their needs in addition to create involvement in addition to motivation.
Delegates raised questions on unlike challenges such every bit the lack of motivation, the prospect of having a lengthy career every bit an equestrian athlete, or the possibility of failing at both sport in addition to studies if neither were a priority.
Claudia Bokel summarised the answers inwards one. “It is of import to secure a reason for a novel career fifty-fifty if it takes many years,” she said. “And of course of instruction yous receive got to hold upwards realistic well-nigh what yous desire to achieve. But don’t contemplate failure, don’t accept away the dreams!”
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