Anyone who wants an efficient, effective, harmonious working environment, especially decision makers.

The workshop can be especially useful for those who design job/person specifications for vacancies and those who sit on interview panels including HR professionals

Does everyone in your business know not only the company's goals but also their own personal goals within the bigger structure? How much scope have they been given to secure appropriate resources around achieving their goal? Do your workforce all have personal plans in place which focus on both company and personal achievement?

In a world where many organisations plan strategy in isolation of structure and then fail to mesh the two, it is highly unlikely you do.

This workshop introduces simple, proven methods applied by top Olympic sportspeople in achieving their success and applies and personalises them to your workforce.

This workshop was described by one attendee as "quite simply the most valuable, informative and instructive day of my life."

From very small, local events to the Olympic Games and every size in between, it seems everyone is after 'sponsorship'. What is sponsorship? Should your company get involved in sponsorship? What is CSR sponsorship? How do you make your sponsorship pay? Is it just advertising or can it be used to achieve other goals?

If you are thinking of getting your company involved in sponsorship or you are already involved and wondering how to make your investment pay, this workshop will provide you with the answers.

All businesses should have properly trained and qualified 'first-aiders' on hand, in the workplace. Common sense suggests training more than the minimum requirement to ensure cover during absence for any reason. Whatever your first aid training requirements, we can provide them with recognised, certificated workshops and courses.

Our First Aid courses are delivered by NUCO First Aid Trainer/Assessors.

Most planning workshops in sport centre on the coach. This workshop takes planning a step further and involves the performer too. Moving beyond periodisation, session, season or cycle planning, this workshop is a must for performers of talent and their coaches.

The workshop introduces the concept of planning for not only training and competition but also for lifestyle matters and examines how paying attention to what seem like tiny, irrelevant details can become the difference between success and failure.

The workshop discusses the differences between donations, funding and sponsorship before exploring how to go about finding and retaining sponsorship for your club or event.

Simple proven ideas and lessons are applied that have been successful for organisations small and large.

This workshop examines what sports development is and looks at some of the guiding principles which should guide all sports development planning. The workshop examines the sports development continuum and discusses what successfully delivering that continuum means to the planner.

Issues such as satisfying funders, delivering changing political agendas, building in sustainability and fully exploiting partnership working are all covered as are the principles behind horizontal and vertical integration of plans.

Planning for successful sports development will make the difference between being very busy running round in circles and successfully delivering relevant, challenging, sustainable, measured outcomes.

This workshop is a 'must attend' for all sports development professionals whether just starting out or more experienced and seeking to get back in touch with basic principles and concepts.

INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMANCE FITNESS

in partnership with Performance Fitness UK

Performance Fitness is the term used to describe those capacities not developed by sport specific training yet required by the performer if he/she is serious about his/her performance.

This workshop introduces you to the many aspects of Performance Fitness including, what Performance Fitness is; why Performance Fitness is important; basic theory; practical examples. The practical examples include warming up/cooling down; multi-directional agility; plyometrics; using medicine balls; weight training; circuit training; functional stability.

The workshop provides excellent 'support knowledge' for the sport specific coach while also acting as an introduction to Performance Fitness for those thinking of pursuing a role as fitness trainer in any given sport or sports.

Please note this is an introductory workshop and not a qualification.

CERTIFICATE IN PERFORMANCE FITNESS

in partnership with Performance Fitness UK

Performance Fitness is the term used to describe those capacities not developed by sport specific training yet required by the performer if he/she is serious about his/her performance.

The course covers - What is Performance Fitness?; Basic Anatomy & Physiology; The Different Requirements of Different Sports (overview); Health & Safety (including Risk Assessment); Long Term Athlete Development including Long Term Fitness Development; Warming Up/Cooling Down; Functional Mobility & Flexibility; Use of Medicine Balls, Plyometrics, Resistance Training (non-weights), Weight Training (including Olympic Lifting), Circuit Training, Functional Stability (core and total body), Multi-Directional Agility and Developing Endurance. Also covered Combination and Complex Training, Planning and an Introduction to Partnership Coaching.

The Certificate in Performance Fitness is a qualification for those seeking to work as Performance Fitness coaches in sport or for sport specific coaches responsible for this aspect of their performers preparation. The Certificate in Performance Fitness is equivalent to most NGB's UKCC Level Two coaching awards.

The Certificate in Performance Fitness requires a commitment from those attending to also carry out home study before and during its duration which is a minimum of 30 hours in length.

DIPLOMA IN PERFORMANCE FITNESS

in partnership with Performance Fitness UK

Performance Fitness is the term used to describe those capacities not developed by sport specific training yet required by the performer if he/she is serious about his/her performance.

The course takes knowledge and skills covered as part of the Certificate in Performance Fitness and expands on them. It also gives coaches the opportunity to take a more sport specific approach to the fitness preparation of performers in their care and includes case studies and examples from a number of top flight sports/sports teams.

The Diploma in Performance Fitness is a qualification for those seeking to work as Performance Fitness coaches in sport or for sport specific coaches responsible for this aspect of their performers preparation. The Diploma in Performance Fitness is equivalent to most NGB's UKCC Level Three coaching awards. It is only open to coaches who already hold the Certificate in Performance Fitness.

The Diploma in Performance Fitness requires a commitment from those attending to also carry out home study before and during its duration. which is a minimum of 120 hours in length.

"What, yet Another workshop covering sports nutrition?" we hear you ask. Yes, and we make no apology. For how many of those other nutrition workshops fail to remember one very basic point? Most young people do not cook for themselves, the person (or people) planning their nutritional intake is mum and/or dad and if that parent is not at the workshop the lessons learned are unlikely to be applied.

This workshop asks young performer's parents to attend and then takes them through the basic principles of eating for sport, what is good, what is bad and what are just myths. Oh yes; and why eating healthily is often cheaper than eating poorly.

It seems crazy to us but some parents spend a fortune on subscriptions and coaching and kit and then undermine it all with poor dietary choices in the kitchen. For a lot less than the cost of a pair of training shoes, this workshop is vital for the parents of ambitious young sportspeople.

Those who cook for themselves are also welcome!

Over 90% of soft tissue injuries suffered by sports people are avoidable! Read that again; that's right, over 90%.

We spend a fortune on rehabilitation of injured sports people every year in the UK and virtually nothing on prehabilitation, that is common sense measures that drastically reduce the likelihood of most of those injuries.

This workshop introduces those basic, simple, common sense measures and explains when and how to use them.

Of course, if you'd prefer to miss the big match or even the Olympic Games or spend a fortune on rehabilitation because of an avoidable injury that's your affair.

Alternatively, for less than half the price of one session with most physiotherapists you could attend this workshop.

If training harder than the next guy was all it took to be the world's best then training would be easy; just do more of it with heavier loads at faster speeds....etc.

But we all know that isn't the case even if sometimes we act like we forgot!

This workshop looks at why training smart is so important and introduces some simple ways to bring 'smart training' into your training programme and lifestyle.

Nothing on this workshop is rocket science, just plain, good old common sense.

It is often overlooked by coaches and performers alike that sportspeople do not getting fitter during training, it is only after training through appropriate recovery that the body adapts to the training undertaken to become fitter.

This workshop looks at how to add high quality recovery to high quality training in order to maximise the benefits of both and also answers the question; how much is too much?

Since it first appeared a little over a decade ago, Long Term Athlete Development has been adopted by coaches, NGBs and other sports bodies across the UK and around the world.

Organisations around the world have come to us for advice and we are currently the only LTAD specialists in the UK utilising the most up to date seven stage model and incorporating the needs of athletes with a disability (although unfortunately, research in this area is sparse).

Our workshop examines where the principles behind LTAD came from, specifically what each stage means for coaches, teachers and other 'sport deliverers' and examines remedial work for performers who have not maximised each critical developmental window.

Good physical literacy is vital if young people are going to grow with the ability to deliver their talent in sport. It is also vital for the general population in the enjoyment of all physical activity, not just sport making it an overlooked element in the fight against obesity. Improved physical literacy could also contribute to reducing the load on the NHS as better movement skills and fitness would assist greatly in (for example) the area of trips, slips and falls.

And yet it is not covered as part of teacher training nor is it a requirement of the school curriculum.

This workshop will equip teachers to introduce physical literacy skills and training to their students at the appropriate time during their development.

All sports clubs should have properly trained and qualified 'first-aiders' on hand. Common sense suggests training more than the minimum requirement to ensure cover through absence (e.g. holidays or sickness). For coaches in some sports, there is the added need for first aid cover when coaching away from the club base. And remember, many sports club and coach insurance providers will not pay out should reasonable measures, which include first aid cover, not have been taken.

Whatever your first aid training requirements, we can provide them with certificated workshops and courses recognised by NGBs and facility providers such as local authorities.

Our First Aid courses are delivered by NUCO First Aid Trainer/Assessors.

Paul Evans is the UK's leading distance runner over the last 2 decades. He won the Chicago Marathon, finished second in New York and had a string of top finishes in London, including a third place. Not only that he also set a UK record for the half marathon and was the leading non-African in two consecutive Olympic 10,000 metres finals.

We have Paul with Jim Cowan to deliver the 'Paul Evans Marathon Workshops'. They can be run consecutively over a weekend or as a series of four spaced about a month apart and tied to key landmarks in the preparation for a marathon.

Covering everything from planning your training to what to eat; from when to race and over what distance to how to accommodate 'real life' while you train; from what can go wrong and how to avoid it to avoiding injury; from being on your best on the big day to what happens after you've finished.

When Paul and Jim delivered these workshops for England Athletics, they received the highest rated feedback ever seen for any England Athletics workshop. Think what they could do for you!

The workshops can be delivered in club houses, health clubs, rented rooms, pretty much anywhere really (we've even delivered it in an unheated dance studio in mid-winter because that is where we were wanted). If you are serious about running your first marathon or improving your PB, the Paul Evans Marathon Workshops are a must!

Today's British middle distance athletes do not benefit from the same opportunities to learn how to employ their own tactics and cope with the tactics of other athletes in the same way as previous generations. This can often be cruelly exposed when they arrive at a major championship lacking the vital piece of experience to cope with how their race (be it heat or final) pans out.

Yet modern coach education has not adapted to this need and coaches (and therefore the athletes they train) are not learning the ways and means of tactical racing.

It doesn't have to be that way and this workshop tackles the issue head on. The workshop looks at every conceivable variation on tactical middle distance racing, how to prepare for it, how to counter it and how to impose your own preferred tactics on a race.

Athletics aficionados often talk of 'the technical events' suggesting that technique is not important to middle and long distance athletes. We prefer the George Orwell view; all events are technical but some are more technical than others.

To those who say it is just putting one foot in front of the other, we point out that no child is born able to run, they have to learn how. And any physical movement that has to be learned can be honed and improved.

This workshop looks at why technique is important for middle distance athletes, what good technique looks like, the difference between technique and style and how to add technique training without having to drop other vital components and without adding hours to the time needed for training.

Any athlete who aspires to competing in a major championship will, at some stage, need to be able to cope with 'back to back hard days'. Why? Because if they can't they will not cope will heats and finals (or, in some events three rounds before a final). At a previous major championship, one British medal hope was knocked out in the semi final and complained after that she was not ready for so many rounds! We ask; why not? They weren't dropped on you unexpectedly, the timetable was published months in advance!

This workshop looks at how to introduce back to back hard days in training, how to simulate the effects of heats and finals and, importantly, how to do it all without breaking the athlete down and causing injury! After all, the purpose is to train an athlete who is ready, not one who would have been ready if he/she wasn't injured!

PRIMARY FITNESS CERTIFICATE

in partnership with Performance Fitness UK

SECONDARY FITNESS CERTIFICATE

in partnership with Performance Fitness UK