01 issue BOUNDARIES The Personal Development Magazine of the Professional Cricketers’ Association Dragons’ gloveman Mark Wallace on taking a journalism course …
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CONTENTS FOREWORD
Welcome to the first edition of ‘Beyond the Boundaries’, the PCA’s Personal Development Magazine. Career Focus – Journalism 4 Mark Wallace looks at a career in journalism Jason Ratcliffe, Group Director – Cricket
Charlie Mulraine 7 he Personal Development Performance Lifestyle, a joint initiative 149 (46 per cent) cricketers went How P.L.A.N can help you Programme has expanded and with the ECB, underpins the programme abroad over the course of the winter at Tdeveloped enormously over the and is supplemented by development some point to hone their playing and life Gordon Lord Exclusive 8 last five years. It is widely recognised and funding for chosen vocation paths, skills outside of their comfort zone. ECB’s Elite Coach Development Manager appreciated that having balanced lives can taster courses, life coaching and work Forty per cent of players decided to on the way forward help people’s performances in any chosen experience opportunities. stay in the UK and gain invaluable work career path. We know that the vast majority of experience whilst honing skills and Stop smoking 12 This is the ultimate aim for our players are being proactive about fitness within County schedules. Tips to help you quit this summer development programme. To encourage their future. In a recent survey of 320 Whatever direction you choose, there you to be the best you can be. Follow your cricketers, 250 said they have given some will always be a balance to strike, but Security and Purpose in cricket 14 dreams and reach for the top but at the thought to life after cricket. the figures are extremely positive in Players give their thoughts on same time to have an eye on the future. Five years ago we had just one that many are at least considering life as a cricketer Life charges on so quickly and we all Performance Lifestyle Adviser. That has risen their options. get consumed with ‘right now’. A little to six across all 18 counties and in 2006/7 We have a development structure to PCA Funding & Development Courses 17 amount of planning and foresight is 179 players (59 per cent of professional be proud of. As professional cricketers, All the info you’ll ever need therefore imperative. cricketers) sought their services. you benefit from the best infrastructure Cricket has well documented incidents Fifteen winter development courses across all sports in the UK. Career Focus – Plumbing 18 of players who have struggled to cope including marketing, business development, Keep pushing yourself on and off the Andy Pratt on becoming a plumber with life after playing days have finished sales, property development and pitch, keep using the services on offer and we want to minimise these problems, negotiations, have given over 100 players, and we will continue to give you more Performance Lifestyle Profiles 21 which in the extreme have led to people both past and present, the chance to gain and more opportunities to get you where Meet the PL team believing that this world is not for them. valuable insights into popular vocations. you want to go.
Career Events 22 Where and when the next Jobscene roadshows will be
PCA Contacts 23 Crucial numbers for your phone Heidi Coleman, PL Co-ordinator
or those of you who are unfamiliar service since its inception in 2003. Six participating in alongside the game and with the Performance Lifestyle Performance Lifestyle Advisers are also to provide examples and ideas of Fprogramme, Performance Lifestyle employed on a regional basis throughout the things that you might be interested is a joint initiative that is run by the the 18 first class counties to service the in doing once your playing career comes ECB and PCA. The programme has two programme and provide players with the to an end. This first edition provides a NOT YOUR AVERAGE Edited by Rachel Newnham, Player Services Executive, PCA EVALUATION OF primary aims: support that they require. ‘Career in Focus’ section which gives THE PLAYERS. Design by TriNorth Limited, Each adviser has extensive knowledge detailed information about specific • To improve the performance of and training in the areas of support that career pathways, players’ experiences This year the PCA launched its new Printed by Jellyfish Solutions Limited Rankings - MVP system. cricketers by easing and minimising are provided. If you have not already of studying alongside the game, Special thanks to Ian Thomas and Jim Hindson The PCA MVP will be the newest benchmark in potential distractions during their seen a Performance Lifestyle Adviser, experiences of players regarding the the game, a statistic that for the first time is formulated from all aspects of a player’s game Cover image by Jim Hindson playing career. why not get in touch? You can find their insecurities of professional sport and and gives them a ranking in relation to his peers. • To better prepare cricketers for life contact details on page 24. If nothing the importance of working towards The PCA Rankings and MVP is unique in sports All imagery courtesy of Getty Images unless otherwise stated statistics. It is an evaluation of the players, after cricket. else, they will provide you with a friendly long term security and a wealth of designed by the players. It is their game, it is their statistic. smile and an ear to listen. information regarding courses and To view the current results or for more info The programme has seen a significant The aim of ‘Beyond the Boundaries’ services that you can access. simply visit: www.thepca.co.uk The views and opinions expressed in this brochure are those of the individual increase in the number of professional is to share players’ experiences of the contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers or the cricketers that are utilising the training and development that they are We hope that you enjoy the read. PCA. Reproduction in whole or in part is strictly prohibited without the prior 03 consent of the publishers. www.thepca.co.uk CAREER JOURNALISM JOURNALISM CAREER
Career in Focus – Career in Focus – Journalism “Is journalism for you?”
Mark Wallace, Glamorgan’s wicket-keeper, explains why he decided to start a course in journalism... Becoming a journalist is certainly the job of the moment. The Journalism BA 14 current and former professional course at Cardiff University has over footballers. The course entailed two 1,000 applications for 150 places, yet the days a week on campus in Stoke, with increase in journalism courses means other work being completed in my own there are more graduates striving for the time. This has allowed me to continue same jobs than ever before. to fulfil all my training commitments at If you've set your sights on a job at The Glamorgan during the other five days of Times or dream of being a sports editor the week. on a glossy magazine, how do you go We have done modules in media law, about making it a reality? Do you have short hand, television, radio, print media, the experience, skills and contacts to win as well as completing industry work a job above the hundreds of others who placements and I’ve found the course want it just as badly? extremely fulfilling. Let’s keep it simple to start with. There editors are an endangered species and > Most good journalists have curious and Staffordshire University have been are six main areas of journalism in the journalists are increasingly expected to inquisitive minds excellent in understanding what is business, otherwise known as: Broadcast, get it right first time because there's no > An interest in current affairs at all required to manage your sporting career Fashion, Magazine, Newspaper, Scientific safety net. levels alongside your academic endeavours and and Press. • Check facts: Legend tells of a time > A lively interest in people, places and events have been totally supportive in tackling when people were employed just to > Someone who can look at the obvious I had always intended to go to university at a professional sportsman, the next day any issues which may arise. What do Journalists do? check the facts in submitted articles. and see something different - or better some time in my life. I was planning to go you don’t. The knock-on effect on my cricket • Researching stories: Broadcasting That's rarely seen nowadays. - by way of a “news line” and picture after leaving school, but with my cricket This spurred me into making sure that I has been a positive one and I feel more companies often employ people whose • Plan magazines: Editors are > Energy, drive and persistence career moving on far quicker than I had started preparing for my life after sport. I’m refreshed going into the season having job is just to research stories and responsible for all the content in > Empathy, patience and an understanding anticipated, it had found itself shifted onto sure I was no different to countless others given my brain something else to think guests. All writers have to research a magazine. As you move up the of what will make a good news story the back burner. out there who don’t really know what they about over the winter. before they can start writing. publishing hierarchy, you'll do less > Writing – basic I know but you need to So having reached the grand old age of would like to get into when their playing I now feel more content that if I can • Writing news and feature stories: News actual writing and more planning and be able to write! Not essays, not poems, 25 and having already fulfilled the necessary days are done. This was where the role of continue to work hard both on and off the stories are short and focus on telling management of other writers, sub- not diary entries – but news stories and winter rites of passage for the young county my Performance Lifestyle Adviser was vital. field, when my time in the game is up I you what's just happened – the most editors and designers. feature articles. You'll need to learn cricketer – the pilgrimages to Australian He stressed the importance of choosing can look back with fond memories, and important thing first. Feature stories • Lay out pages: In smaller publishing how to put your reader's needs first club cricket, the off season pumping iron something I had a genuine interest in forward with fresh ambitions. often need a topical 'peg' (or reason) for companies, journalists might be expected and structure stories for publication. in the gym and the dark months playing and passion for and, after using several Mark Wallace publication, but they're more in-depth to lay out pages as well as write them. You'll have to write to deadline and to Playstation and trying to get the handicap different profiling techniques and speaking and less rigidly structured. They might For a long time, the standard application a specified length, and be able to edit down – it was time to start doing something at length about different career paths, I be interviews, travel reports, how-to for layout was Quark XPress. Now stories for style and length more constructive with my time. settled upon a degree in journalism. articles or opinion columns. Adobe InDesign is gaining in popularity. > You'll need to know how to research County cricket is a very enclosed With the first hurdle overcome it was • Take photographs: Multiskilling is It's a valuable skill to be able to edit stories. Journalism is about reporting environment and it is easy to get swept now crucial that I chose somewhere that becoming more and more a part of life documents in layout applications. on what's happening now or will along by the privileged existence it would be flexible enough for me to study in media, so photography is a useful happen in future. By the time a story gives you. You know that it won’t last without the extra workload having any skill for all writers to have. But some What skills do you need? gets into print, it's old news. You'll also forever, that someone younger, better effect on my people work as photojournalists and Let's start at the beginning: In general, need to be able to generate story ideas. or cheaper will come along and your cricket. This use their pictures to tell the story with the most important and perhaps the most You'll need to learn what interests your services will no longer be needed. The was easier very few words. valuable attribute are your communications audience and how to find new stories problem is that we all know this but few said than done and • Edit stories: Sub-editors concentrate skills. The following are considered to be they want to read before they even are willing to accept it. having explored several avenues I was on editing other people's work – they most important for journalists: realise they want to read them What triggered me to down clubs very lucky to be put onto Staffordshire correct any grammar mistakes, • Verbal reasoning > To write and research stories easily, and up books this winter was two of my University by my advisor. sometimes write the headlines and • Interviewing you'll need to understand your subject. best friends losing their contracts at They were running a degree course in make sure the publication has a • Listening If you're a specialist writing about a Glamorgan. Both were talented players Sports Journalism in conjunction with consistent style. In many places sub- • Writing particular subject, you'll need to know the who could have played on for many more the Professional Footballers’ Association seasons and it was the finality of it all and were very keen to have a cricketer which struck me. One day you wake up on the course studying alongside Mark Wallace working hard on and 70% of players had 2 or more training sessions per week over the winter off the pitch. 04 05 BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES www.thepca.co.uk CAREER JOURNALISM charlie mulraine CAREER
lingo and be able to use it correctly and schools, college and university newsletters, broader foundation degrees in Languages, you'll need to be able to provide context to specialist magazines and local free papers. Business, Law and Humanities. your story by filling in relevant background In short, for any media that will print your Please research links on the Further I’m a Celebrity get me > Presenting - Everyone wants to work name next to an article. If you can edit a Info section below and/or meet with your in front of the camera or microphone. newsletter or magazine for a club, or even Performance Lifestyle Adviser who will be However those jobs are limited. But, for as part of a job you're already doing, don't able to talk through the best options for out of here those that might, it is essential to have a pass up the opportunity. you at this stage in your cricketing career. good voice, an ability to speak clearly and The other way to get experience is naturally, and to master the skill of telling to do a course - whether it's a training Further Info: Charlie Mulraine works with the PCA on the development of their career a story. However, there are many more short course, an undergraduate course The National Council for the Training of placement programme, P.L.A.N, and we asked him how he can help players jobs behind the camera or microphone or a postgraduate course - of which work Journalists (NCTJ) where having a good voice may be experience is a mandatory part. These The New Granary, Station Road, Newport, make the right career choices. desirable but not quite so critical two shouldn't be exclusive. A would-be Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 3PL > Pressure - You have to meet deadlines - journalist should write as much as he or Tel: 01799 544014 this means often you will be working hard she can, whether or not it's compulsory. www.nctj.com Charlie Mulraine runs Mulraine This can’t be an easy job. How does it an approach on their behalf, or source and fast, against the clock - you’ll need to Consulting, an independent recruitment actually work? new relationships if those sectors are not be able to express, analyse and condense What kind of training is there and where The Broadcast Journalism Training company that works with the PCA and Players are referred to me either via the yet covered in the programme. information, be resourceful, persistent, do I go? Council Performance Lifestyle to help players PCA or through the Performance Lifestyle truthful and accurate Some journalists learn their trade on the BJTC Secretary - Address: 18 make the transition from sport into Advisers. The Advisers let me know when How do you link in with the Performance job, but many will undergo some kind of Miller's Close, Rippingale Nr. Bourne, a new and successful career. As an they have a player who is ready to consider Lifestyle programme? Quick Tip formal training. In that respect there are Lincolnshire, PE10 0TH. ex-professional sportsman (he joined winter work experience or possibly a more We work as a partnership. The You can't get experience before you get many different training options available Telephone: 01778-440025 Warwickshire CCC straight from school permanent opportunity if they are at the Performance Lifestyle Advisers already a job, yet you can't get a job without to you from full-time academic courses www.bjtc.org.uk and then played professional rugby with end of their contract. help current players with career discovery experience. So what do you do? to more flexible and online industry and www.nujtraining.org.uk Gloucester and London Scottish) he very exercises and therefore my main role is There are two ways you can gain vocationally based courses. www.journalismuk.co.uk much understands what it is like to have What happens next? to help secure work experience for those experience. One is to do as many work > University Undergraduate & Postgraduate www.journalism-training-centre.co.uk to face the commercial world with limited There are two main aspects to my role. who know what they want to do or with placements as you can manage, and to Options: Choose any course from Media, www.journalism.co.uk work experience and without a degree. The first part is to secure the interest of past players who have, perhaps, ended write for your cricket club, county, local Journalism, specific areas of journalism to www.mediatraining.ltd.uk businesses that are able to offer winter up in the wrong career. My role is more Considering a future that doesn’t involve work experience and/or internship focused on helping them realise that there cricket can be a very stressful exercise programmes. All organisations seek are other options available to them. and one that understandably many players highly motivated staff and that is exactly try to avoid. We are all aware that playing what cricketers are. The second part is How can players access these Industry recognised personal training professional cricket is a privilege but it to work with the players to understand opportunities? is also a career that involves a great deal what motivates them and to discover All job opportunities will be advertised on qualifications for professional cricketers of pressure; form can be as changeable what career opportunities will be best the PCA website as well as through the as the weather and career threatening suited to them. Performance Lifestyle Advisers. The long Study in your spare time to become a personal trainer injuries can strike at anytime. Taking term aim is to be able to provide players the time to consider what options are How do you find out what opportunities with work experience across a wide Executive Fitness Careers has designed a number available to you is a wise course of action. might be well suited? range of different sectors and throughout of courses in collaboration with the Professional The careers programme involves a the UK. Cricketers Association to specifically fit in with the What prompted you to become involved number of different modules. The first lifestyle of a professional cricketer. with the PCA? session is all about asking questions You could be fully qualified within 12 weeks full Having had my cricket career cut short, I and listening to the player talk about his For more information time study or 9 months part time study without any really wanted to work with current and past current situation and future ambitions. please call 08702 640530 or crossover into your cricket demands. players to help them make that transition This is quickly followed by the completion email [email protected] Once qualified, our industry recognised courses will from sport into a new and successful of a psychometric and career options test. or go to www.mulraineconsulting.com enable you to operate as a fitness instructor or set career. The important thing for me was The results are then put together in a up a professional personal training business. to help players realise that the individual report that gives a personality profile and strengths that make them successful on a number of different career options that • Study at home from books, DVD-ROMs the cricket pitch are transferable and can suit their profile and ambitions. We then and online lead to success in another field. Many explore these options and provide expert • University recognised qualifications players feel under pressure to accept the help with interview techniques, and CV • Award taught by academics, sport scientists first job that is offered to them and this can and application letter writing. If we have a and practicing personal trainers be very unfulfilling. relationship with a company in the sector • Discounted course fees for PCA members that a player is interested in, I can make
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Interview managing multidisciplinary support teams, necessarily mean telling them they of an athlete is a long term process massively increased investment in player are great all the time but that they (LTAD), there is also a Long Term Coach Gordon Lord, the ECB’s Head of Elite Coach Development discusses and coach development programmes have constantly monitor the balance between Development Process, so the sooner all impacted significantly. challenge and support and make sure people can start coaching the better. his career with Ian Thomas and offers some insights into coaching as I think perhaps the most significant that there are sufficient opportunities a career option for PCA members. developments, however, have been in the for performance accomplishment, even IT: What advice do you have for people way in which we train coaches to work when players are working right at the thinking about coaching as a career? with people. This is sometimes referred to edge of their current ability. GL: Get qualified, get coaching and IT: How did you become interested in importance of a coach being able to see was invaluable during my first overseas as the art of coaching. In the mid 1990’s Tim Gallwey said “By the word learning, get ready! Talk with your Performance coaching? the world through the players’ eyes and coaching job in 1983. During that first Mickey Stewart launched a Management I do not simply mean the collection of Lifestyle Adviser, talk with other coaches GL: Like most players, I was interested how important it was to keep things trip to South Africa, I worked with Peter Skills Programme at the University of information, but the realisations that and think hard about what it is about in finding ways to get better and I always simple. Stringer at the Wanderers Club and was Bradford for coaches involved in the actually change behaviour. Great coaches coaching that draws you to it. There are found conversations about the game with In 1983, during a 2nd XI match between immediately struck by the passion he had professional game. This has evolved into create an environment in which positive increasing numbers of coaching jobs senior players and coaches fascinating. Warwickshire and Northants, Neal for helping people achieve their potential the current Level 4 programme. More behavioural change takes place.” available in the UK as well as overseas, I think, on reflection, that there were Abberley, at the time Warwickshire’s and how absolutely selfless he was in recently, the emergence of the UKCC with So, to summarise, my answer is, good however, as is the case with other several major influences on my ultimate 2nd XI Coach, spoke with me about doing so. it’s emphasis on balancing the “What to coaches coach technique, great coaches careers, often the job you really want isn’t decision to pursue a career in coaching the concept of ‘relaxed concentration’ Coach” (technique, tactics) with the “How coach people and recognise that the only available when you want it! This might and coach development and the ‘performance = potential – IT: So how did you become involved with to Coach” (coaching process skills) has truly sustainable competitive advantage is mean doing another job in coaching The six weeks spent touring Australia interference’ equation. the ECB? ensured that the key messages from Level to learn faster than their opposition. and learning something new every day in 1979 for Young England with Keith He lent me the Tim Gallwey classic GL: In 1991 I was released by 4 are appropriately delivered through the until something which matches your Andrew as Head Coach was an inspiration. ‘The Inner Game of Tennis’ and I believe, Worcestershire. I had spent my winters community game. IT: If a current professional player wants aspirations becomes available. I understand now just how far Keith on reflection, that this also inspired me between 1983 and 1991 either coaching to qualify as a coach, what do they need There is an increasing recognition was ahead of his time as a coach. The towards a future in coaching and coach in South Africa, getting further coaching IT: So what do you think makes a good to do? amongst employers of coaches both following winter, a tour development. It was a privilege to be experience and qualifications, or working coach? GL: The highest entry level into the at home and abroad of the Level 4 to the West Indies able introduce ‘Abbers’ to Tim Gallwey in training and development for the Lucas GL: It might be better to ask some current ECB Coach Education Programme qualification. You will need Level 3 to with Graham some 15 years later when he was over Group in Birmingham and had to make players for their views on that! From my is Level 2. This course provides an access this programme and be able to Saville as in the UK running an elite coaches a decision whether I was to pursue a perspective, elite coaching and performance introduction to the coaching process commit to a tough 26-month part-time Head Coach seminar. Tim’s future in HR or to find a way of remaining have three major components. and some key background in the science learning programme. If you are seriously helped me involved with the game. The foundation is effective working and art. Qualification at this level allows looking at coaching as a career, I would be understand A conversationA conversation with with Mike Mike Vockins, Vockins, relationships. This doesn’t mean that coaches to access the benefits of the happy to discuss your plans with you. Drop the thethe Secretary Secretary (Chief (Chief Executive) Executive) at at coaches and players have to be good mates, ECB Coaches Association (which include me an email on [email protected] WorcestershireWorcestershire led led to to an an interview interview but more that there needs to be clear £5million Public Liability Insurance). Local withwith the the Wrekin Wrekin District District Council Council for for understanding, trust and mutual respect. Cricket Development managers, and local oneone of of the the early early Cricket Cricket Development Development If the overall working environment is Coaches Associations will be able identify OfficerOfficer positions. positions. I gotgot the jobjob and spent appropriately secure but challenging, dates and venues of courses. 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If players hold either overseas a profound effect on the jointhe Somerset,NCA to join I appliedSomerset, for theI applied National Coaches who have the ability to develop qualifications or qualifications gained development of a number of Coachfor the position National he Coach had vacated position and he was quality working relationships with their in the UK prior to 1997, then they may our current high performance delightedhad vacated to be and offered was delighted the job by tothe players and support staff, within a be able to get some Accredited Prior coaches. It is amazing what Directorbe offered of Coaching,the job by Keiththe Director Andrew ofin high quality, performance-orientated Learning for these and progress directly can grow from a simple 1992.Coaching, Keith Andrew in 1992. environment and have the capacity to to Level 3. 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In developing these from the application of the principles from Coaching Award course. 1992. Certainly the ‘science’ of coaching working relationships, creating the right them in coaching practice and in often This course provided has moved on apace. Laptop computers, environment and sharpening the learning more informal discussions with other some basic guidance on sophisticated video and performance curve, I believe that the great coaches coaches and players how the game could be analysis software, long-term, multiple constantly feed the belief systems of There is significant evidence to show introduced to children and periodised training programmes, coaches the players they work with. This doesn’t that in the same way the development Coaching the new generation of England cricketers 08 09 BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES www.thepca.co.uk EDUCATION COACHING
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• Your withdrawal symptoms will soon • Notice how your health is improving- and go smoke free together. It helps to Stop Smoking get better - Remember that the first You might have noticed that your skin speak to your family and friends. They few weeks are the worst and you will and teeth look healthier. Perhaps you can remind you why you are quitting soon start to feel much better! These have more energy and no longer cough and encourage you to keep it up symptoms are a sign that your body is or wheeze. There will be other changes As of 1 July, smoking will be banned from Each puff on 2 - What do you need to do to give up? starting to recover… happening too. Your circulation and lungs 4 - Where to go for help? all buildings & public spaces. Will your As Freud once said, ‘sometimes, a will be improving and your chances of If you are determined to quit smoking and county let you sit outside in your training cigarette is just a cigarette’. Sometimes Cravings - your brain is missing the getting a serious disease associated with feel as though you need some extra help gear/whites to have a cigarette??? a cigarette too much credit & power can be given to nicotine fix, this should get better after a smoking will have started to fall. you can call the Quitline freephone number: How much do you think about smoking? the cigarettes themselves. The first step few weeks. • Coping with difficult situations - It is 0800 00 22 00. Here you can receive help, While having teas/lunch? Last few overs temporarily in giving up smoking for good is actually a great idea to remind yourself of the advice and more information about the running up to tea/lunch? While training? wanting to and believing you can. Coughing - your lungs are clearing out situations that tempt you into wanting different treatments that are available. Where does ‘habit’ stop and ‘addiction’ Despite its addictive nature, nicotine tar. Try having a warm drink to soothe a cigarette. Planning ways to deal start? Are you really an addict, or are you increases heart doesn’t hang around in your body long your cough. with these situations can really help. Call the NHS Smoking Helpline on in control? (about 48 hours) once you’ve stopped If you do have a cigarette you should 0800 169 0 169 and speak to a specialist rate and blood smoking. For those who choose to go cold Hunger, diarrhoea or constipation - your stop again immediately. Then throw adviser. Lines are open everyday from 1 - What are the effects to a player/ turkey, withdrawal symptoms are likely to body is just returning to normal. Try to eat away the rest of the packet and take 7am to 11pm. athlete? be at their most intense in the first two or healthy snacks instead of junk food. yourself out of the situation. Go for a • givingupsmoking-together. • Smoking affects your sports pressure. three days and will gradually fade away walk, drink some water or take a deep broadsystem.com/ performance. The effects of tobacco vessels and puts added strain on over the following two or three weeks. Dizziness - your brain is getting used to breath and ask yourself if you really • www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=8940 use are extremely limiting to athletic your heart. For those who simply can’t contemplate having a normal amount of oxygen. Don’t want to be a smoker again. • www.gosmokefree.co.uk/ performance, especially when athletes • Smoking can wreck lungs and reduce going cold turkey, research indicates that worry this should only last a few days. • Get support from your family, friends • www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/ are recovering from injuries. oxygen available for muscles used using nicotine replacement therapy - now and experts - Getting support from fact11.html • Nicotine narrows your blood during sports. available on prescription in various forms Trouble sleeping, bad moods - these are the people around you really helps. • www.quit.org.uk/ • Smokers suffer shortness of breath - can more than double your chances of signs of nicotine withdrawal and shouldn’t Tell everyone about your quit date. You • www.smokefree.gov/ (gasp!) almost three times more often staying stopped. last more than two or three weeks. could even team up with someone else • www.gosmokefree.co.uk/getunhooked than non-smokers. • Smokers run slower and can’t run 3 - Ready to stop? Make a plan… as far, affecting overall athletic • Choose a quit date and stick to it - The performance. most important thing that you need to • Athletes who participate in endurance do is to pick a day to go smokefree and Become a qualified... activities are the most affected by stick to it. You will find it easier if you tobacco smoke. The reason is in choose a day that is not going to be the way smoking damages the stressful. circulatory system. Each puff on • Plan how to deal with temptation - • Personal Trainer • Gym Instructor a cigarette temporarily increases Everyone has situations when they feel heart rate and blood pressure. There tempted to have just one cigarette. is less oxygen-rich blood circulating Think about when you are most likely • Nutritional Advisor • Sports Massage Therapist through the body, and aerobic to want to smoke. At the pub, after a capacity declines rapidly. Also, cup of tea, after a meal? Make a list the blood vessels constrict of these situations and stick it on the Premier Training offers various discounts on our range of courses rather than dilate, as they wall. Now you can plan ways to take should during exercise. This your mind off the temptation. Perhaps constriction increases the you could avoid the pub for a while and pressure on the artery snack on fruit after a meal or a cuppa? walls and blood pressure • Throw away all of your cigarettes - The increases in kind. Clearly, night before your quit day you need to this combination is get rid of any temptation. Look around detrimental to athletic the house and go through all of your performance. An pockets. Throw away any cigarettes, athlete who smokes matches or lighters you find. It’s also a will reach maximal good idea to get rid of ashtrays as they heart rate far faster will only remind you of smoking. When than a nonsmoker, and you are smokefree, you won’t need his performance will suffer them anyway! For more information call Mark Davies today on accordingly. 01225 717222 12 I’m a cigarette, get me out of here! or email [email protected] BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES www.premierglobal.co.uk
PCA Premier Apr 07.indd 1 27/4/07 3:15:47 pm LIFESTYLE SECURITY SECURITY LIFESTYLE
Security and purpose Players give their thoughts on work experience, planning for the future and life as a cricketer...
Interviews were conducted with professional cricketers to explore their thoughts beyond the boundaries. Players discussed the following points.
• Positive winter work experiences • Typical thinking that stops or starts professionals planning for the future • Uncomfortable insecurities and key moments • The benefits of planning for life after pro cricket Working as a team towards a common goal
“It’s such an intense lifestyle. You play it everybody is different. You need to realise “… another worry is that coaches and “There were a lot of players, especially from something like 16 to 35 if you are that, all these skills I have, I learnt from other people will look at you and think, in my early career that in the wintertime Success comes from hard work on and off the pitch lucky, and you know it goes so quickly, but playing cricket…what have I learnt, apart why is he doing all these things? Is he just sat on their bum all day. They would every minute of the day is cricket, cricket, “… being around new people and learning only going to be in a better position from how to bowl?’ Without knowing it you not confident in himself?” wait for April to come round and go and cricket… and you know it gets on top of the how to deal with new situations. If you personally, out of the game where you’re have learnt key skills which organisations have a few rounds of golf and so they best players within the game.” get a job there will be deadlines to meet all set up when your career finishes, it require. Communication, being able “I know now, that it pays to be pro-active. had nothing behind them at all. I know and there will be new pressures in that is important that you’re all set up with to work as part of a team. You look at Two years ago I did a computer course, these issues are being addressed now “It’s such an encompassing lifestyle. You’re sort of job. That will help my cricket things in place, and have other interests, prerequisites of all these companies and which kick-started me into doing other and I think it is fantastic.” playing so often, playing everyday, with the because there are deadlines in cricket, not or your own business…” they want all these key skills. We do it for things – I did my second coaching course, ups and downs, the emotions of it, every like there are in work, but deadlines on a living without even knowing it.” and now I’m doing my third one... a couple “I woke up one day and realised that day. One day you get 100 and the next day getting runs. So I think that will help me “I did three months on a building site and of years ago I would say “I will do this I was not going to do this forever. I you get nought and you build yourself up as a person and how to deal with those it was really tough, but it made me think Typical thinking that stops or starts pros later”, but now I realise that at this stage don’t know what made me realise this to play, against the fastest bowlers in the situations and that kind of pressure…” and appreciate how much I like cricket planning for the future of my career that I might as well take the – maybe someone at the club retired, world, it’s so, so encompassing.” and how good a life it is. I was in work opportunity while I have it and while I am maybe someone finished, it might “I think it is a good chance to see if you for 7.30am and because it was winter it Some players said they don’t look into making some decent money.” even have been seeing a second team “The skills we are after are the ability to can find something that you might want was freezing. Sometimes I was left on other things because they are afraid to and lad who hadn’t been as lucky as me. walk on to the field and have nothing on to do, or give yourself the opportunity to the building site on my own just to shovel don’t know anything about them. Some The timing of players’ decisions Whatever it was, it brought it home that your mind other than your cricket. The do new things or learn new things. I think a big hole … Being at one place for two were worried about what the coach thinks, on when to start planning for their it is a hard business we play in.” way to achieve that is to have everything by doing that you make yourself a better weeks shovelling three tonnes of topsoil. some felt they just had to concentrate future is a very individual thing. Some sorted away from the cricket and have a person and in that way help your cricket.” So when I am playing and I am having to on their cricket, some just wanted a players felt they wouldn’t plan until “I am one of the lucky ones really, I security and purpose away from cricket.” field all day I just think, “hang on a minute ‘small taster’ of what else they might be they had to, while others said that have been involved in the game for a Work experiences were also thought to I could be getting up at 7am everyday and interested in, and others felt they would seeing fellow professionals being long time, but there are a lot of players, Perhaps you can identify with some of improve communication skills, improve shovelling rubbish”. It really makes me need to be ‘scared’ to start doing things. released has had a big effect on their who haven’t been able to sustain a these quotes? They are from those you your personal situations, and often appreciate what I have.” own planning, because sometimes career in cricket. I have seen a lot play with and against and highlight the made players realise how much they “I am a bit afraid to dip into the other they are like “lost souls”. of them give up, probably, the best value of working towards a security and appreciated their cricket, while helping “…the life skills I have learnt from cricket interests as much as I would like to. If working years of their lives and their purpose beyond the boundary. them recognise the “life skills” they are going to put me in good stead for it’s a cricket thing, then yes I will do it, “I have just signed a five-year contract, so education to play cricket, reach 28, develop through cricket are invaluable. the rest of my life… You learn and know (I mean I know about that) but to know that has given me a bit of security till I am 29 and then what do they do? It must Positive winter work experiences - your own team backwards, what kind of a about different things, like pensions or 35, but although five years sounds a long be difficult for cricketers who got Players felt that in experiencing the “…if you start the ball rolling and have mood we are in, because you know for a accounting or banking, I am sort of a way off, looking back on the last ten years contracts at such a young age, when world of work you gain self-confidence a long, successful career, you’re season we live in each others ‘pockets and bit afraid.” you realise it goes quickly.” they finish playing … they are basically
82% of players have thought about their future after cricket 144 cricketers worked this winter
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fresh and is likely to improve the PCA Educational performing mindset. Funding
“It is a distraction that I don’t have. If I didn’t know what I was going to do in the The PCA offers educational winter and if I didn’t have the CV that I funding to all players. Whether have got now I think it would be a major it’s an IT course, sports worry of mine through the season and psychology degree or fitness that is the last thing I want…” diploma, you can receive funding for 50% of the course “It has given me a piece of mind to be cost up to £1,500. Once you confident that I can go and do something have paid for the course, return else in the winter.” the receipt of payment along with a completed Education “To have something else that you are Funding form and the PCA will interested in or thinking about doing, reimburse you. makes you fresh, and helps you keep Learning to drive? The PCA
Learning new skills can help increase your sense of security your enthusiasm for cricket also.’ will also help fund driving lessons up to £250. Again, lost souls, they’ve always been around that security in your career, not being able “Player X has a three-month contract simply fill in an Education the club, always had people around to go out there and enjoy what comes.” and he doesn’t know if he is going to Funding form and return with them, and all of a sudden they are on get an extension to that contract of if he your receipt of payment and we their own.” “Once my contract finishes here, I need will need to go and find another job. He will reimburse you. to have a proper job, I can’t go and work has to go out there and get everything Contact Jason or Rachel for a Uncomfortable insecurities and key in Sainsbury’s packing shelves, that’s not right technically and mentally, but form and/or more info. moments enough money to support me and it’s not emotionally he is worried about his job, Players felt a lot of uncomfortable enough money to support my family, so I he has a mortgage to pay and he might insecurities in being a pro. They felt need to be out there doing a proper job.” be worried about that?” PCA Development there is little security within the Courses profession, and that they do worry and “Well, life after cricket is going to be very “Having a commitment away from the think about what they will “do” and important, its going to be completely different game is fulfilling and will enhance my “be” after they finish. Players also to the lifestyle I have got now (traveling, being performance in the game.” The PCA will once again run said that insecurities are particularly in a dressing room, being in front of people winter seminars covering a uncomfortable when you have and being on television), I realise that it is Players also suggested that it is variety of subjects including “mature” life commitments or around going to be completely different.” important for you to mature as a person Property Development, Sports contract negotiation time, and that not just a cricketer, and that they are Journalism, Sports Marketing, moving beyond cricket will be a life- “When you play there are so many good confident the Performance Lifestyle Business Start Up, After Dinner changing experience. Although players things about cricket; the camaraderie, Programme can offer something to Speaking, Plastering, Plumbing suggested they just want to keep there’s the achieving, there’s the lifestyle existing and future players. and many others. playing, they also reported wanting to of it, and that’s all I ever wanted to do, you Some of the courses will also be challenged and happy. know, all those things are an enormous “Since the advent of twelve-month be regionally based this year, draw to want to keep playing.” contracts and the Programme, we’ve so please let Rachel or your “I mean, when you’re a doctor you’re not been given a little more direction with our Performance Lifestyle Adviser thinking about another career you might “When I think about trying to something lives. I think that is a key word, ‘direction’ know if you are interested in have. When you’re a lawyer you’re not to do in the next stage of my life, I know , because I did not know which direction attending or if you have an idea considering other careers, you’d be mad! I I like to be challenged, so it’s about I was going. But now I do, I know exactly for a course that is not listed. mean once you become a doctor you’re a finding something I can get my teeth into what I want to do and get out of the game, doctor, you’re not thinking about what you’re and enjoy.” and I know what I want to do when I get going to do when you’re not a doctor.” out of the game. It has taken a long time The benefits of planning for life after to realise that…” Don’t forget that all the information “I respond to pressure really well and pro cricket my greatest achievements have been Players reported a sense of security Performance Lifestyle offer people you need from the PCA is on the website under the highest pressure. But there is gained from preparing for life outside ways of seeing how they can lead a www.thepca.co.uk. Whether you’re after something uncomfortable about not having and after sport, that can keep a player more fulfilling life. insurance information, looking for a job, 59% of players have seen a Performance Lifestyle Adviser need a new car or want to check the latest live scores, the PCA website is the place to go! 16 17 BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES www.thepca.co.uk CAREER PLUMBING PLUMBING CAREER
Career in Focus – Career in Focus – Plumbing “Is plumbing for you?”
Andy Pratt, ex-Durham wicket-keeper, talks about how he went from All you need to know about becoming a plumber. being a cricketer to a plumber….
What do plumbers do? How much do plumbers earn? include an aptitude test. You will therefore Plumbers play an essential role within The salaries below are presented as a need to contact individual colleges and modern society, providing everything from guideline. They vary regionally, with the training providers to confirm their entry The hardest part of deciding on a new from employers (no one seemed to return clean water to central heating. They are highest average salaries being in London requirements. career is the starting point. I first began my calls). responsible for installing, servicing and and the south-east. planning when my wife and I had our As I write this article I have now repairing hot and cold water supplies, Starting salaries for newly qualified 1) City and Guilds (6129) – Technical first child, which pushed me towards completed all the training processes and drainage networks and heating systems. plumbers range between £16,500 and Certificates Level 2 Basic Plumbing thinking about our future and security. have recently sat my final exam. I still Some plumbers choose to specialise £21,000. Experienced plumbers can earn Studies and Level 3 Plumbing Studies. Performance Lifestyle gave me as much remain with the company who sponsored in sheet metal work within industrial, between £21,000 and £30,000 a year. This is a theoretical qualification that help as I could have wished for. My me through my training and plan to be commercial and/or historical buildings. Plumbers with supervisory duties can earn provides all the necessary underpinning Adviser helped me whilst I continued to with them for some time as a gesture Plumbing work can be indoors or up to £35,000. Self-employed plumbers knowledge that you need to practise safely concentrate on my cricket. of loyalty. Although in the future I have outdoors, it is often in confined spaces and negotiate their own rates. in the work place. These certificates can From the age of 16 I had been a aspirations to set up my own business in sometimes at height. be done without any work experience and professional cricketer and could never the industry. What do you need to do to become a many training providers require people to look beyond playing. But as we all know Andy Pratt What qualities do you need to be a qualified plumber? complete them prior to starting any work it does come to an end and from my point plumber? There are a number of routes you can take placement. The certificates can be done of view the transition was not as bad as • Good at working with your hands to become a qualified plumber. Methods part-time in college or during intensive it could have been, but that’s because I “working • The ability to follow technical drawings of learning range from distance learning study programmes (typically 8-12 week spent time considering the future and and plans to attending college on a weekly basis to courses) with some allowing a period of then planning. During my playing years, towards • Good practical and problem solving undergoing intensive in-house training home study prior to undertaking intensive like many, I never initially thought about skills with a private training provider; however, in-house training at the private training planning, but the only advice I can give becoming a • A careful and methodical approach to all routes require you to undertake a provider centre. now is to take advantage of working with work significant period of on the job training. N.B. Prior to enrolling on a course the Performance Lifestyle programme plumber has • Willingness to undertake physically It is possible to start working towards always check that it is accredited by City to consider these plans. Whether it is demanding work in varying qualifying and to potentially qualify whilst and Guilds, www.cityandguilds.com. This at the beginning or towards the end of environments and environmental still playing professional cricket, but your website will also tell you where you can do your cricketing life, I feel it will take the been a big conditions success will depend on your initiative, this qualification in your area and provides pressure off your game and help you enjoy • Able to work on your own initiative as commitment to finding and securing work contact details. Alternatively, SummitSkills a long and successful career. culture shock” well as in a team based training in the off-season, and a (see more information section) can provide For me, working towards becoming a • Awareness of health & safety issues and strong work ethic. you with this information. plumber has been a big culture shock- legal regulations To become a fully qualified plumber you Industry bodies strongly recommend that day in day out working long hours for • Good communicator with the ability will need to attain the qualifications outlined you gain a placement or employment with less money. It’s hard, but it is also real to take direction from others and give below. It is important to note that the entry a plumbing firm as soon as possible after life. Eventually the work becomes part of direction requirements for these qualifications are starting the technical certificates, so that your life and you find out how well looked • Good customer care skills set by colleges and training providers you can complete the necessary NVQ as after you have been as a professional • Normal colour vision (for some specific so they can vary but most are likely to soon as possible. sportsman, reaping so many rewards. work) When I first sat down with an Adviser, I had no idea of what I wanted to do (I am sure Where do plumbers find work? some of you understand this feeling). Over a Qualified plumbers may work for long period of time I spoke to various people a plumbing or mechanical engineering and through a process of elimination I was services company, a building contractor or clear in what I didn’t want to do. Then after a public sector body, or they may choose to sometimes painful selection processes, become self employed and build up their found an occupation I had a real interest own client base. in. I then spoke to people in the industry about the job, which was reassuring and How many hours do they work? confirmed it was the line of work for me, Plumbers work 40 hours a week but but I continually received knock-backs, from overtime is common and some offer a 24- both further education establishments and hour call-out service. Where’s Andy when you need him? 18 19 BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES www.thepca.co.uk FOCUS ON PLUMBING PERFORMANCE LIFESTYLE PROFILES
2) NVQ/*SVQ Level 2 and 3 in Mechanical trainee and have successfully applied and the City & Guilds 6129 qualification, work Engineering Services (MES): Plumbing enrolled on an NVQ training programme with experience and additional support to set up (Domestic). a local college, or signed up with a private your business by joining their franchise. THE PERFORMANCE *NVQ is called SVQ in Scotland training provider so that you can be assessed www.olci.info/plumbing/index.htm - OLCI The National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) in the workplace. Some colleges and private offers the C&G 6129 qualification. in plumbing involves work based learning and training providers will help you to find a NB. With so many private training LIFESTYLE TEAM training. Possessing an NVQ level 2 will allow training placement, whereas others will only providers touting for business across the you to operate within the plumbing industry; provide you with an assessor so you will need UK it is important that you do your research however, to be fully qualified you have to to source and contact qualified plumbers and and actually contact providers to discuss attain the Level 3 qualification, which can plumbing firms directly. their training in order to find the best course Heidi Coleman (PL Co-ordinator) takes away the stress whilst concentrating Certificate in Career Counselling for Elite take several years to complete and longer if If you are over 19 years of age training to for you at the best price. Contact your Counties: Essex & Kent on playing. PL allows players to have a Performers. done part-time. become a plumber can be quite expensive Performance Lifestyle Adviser if you would “I have been working on the PL sounding board for this.” Contact: 07771 972827 or If you are aged between 16 and 19 years (especially through some private training like some help with this. programme since its inception in 2003. Background: BSc (Hons) Sport [email protected] (and in some parts of the UK between 16 providers) so it is recommended that you take Since then I have seen the programme Development, eight years experience as and 24 years) you can train to become a time to shop around for the best deal. Further information grow enormously. It remains a pleasure to a professional cricketer with Glamorgan David Priestley plumber by doing an Apprenticeship or For further information about routes into provide support to players and to see them CCC, Graduate Certificate in Elite Counties: Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Modern Apprenticeship course. Depending Examples of Private Training Providers… plumbing, qualifications/training required, succeed not only on the field but also away Performer Career Counselling, ECB Lancashire on your age you may be able to obtain www.ableskills.co.uk – Able Skills offers continued professional development and from the game.” Coaching Qualifications. “I see my time with people as a government funding to pay for the full cost City and Guilds in a range of trade disciplines. career opportunities follow the links below or Background: BSc (Hons) Sport Science, Contact: 07920 575578 or privilege. I listen and I help them to help of your training. Due to the popularity of the www.moveontraining.co.uk/index.html - speak to your Performance Lifestyle Adviser. MPhil Sport Psychology, Graduate [email protected] themselves.” career, places on college courses are often Move on Training offers both the City & Guilds Learn Direct Certificate in Careers Counselling, three Background: BSc (Hons) Sport Science, limited. For more information about the 6129 qualification and NVQ work based www.learndirect-advice.co.uk years teaching in Higher Education. Lynsey Braddock MSc Sport Psychology, Level 1 – Apprenticeship / Modern Apprenticeship and assessment. SummitSkills Contact: 07766 505597 or Counties: Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Introduction to Counselling skills, Graduate courses in your area contact SummitSkills www.avand.co.uk/index.htm - Avand offer Tel: 08000 688336 [email protected] Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire Certificate in Careers Counselling (see more information section). the City & Guilds 6129 qualification and NVQ www.summitskills.org.uk “I joined the PL team in January 2006 and Contact: 07771 941433 or To complete your NVQ qualifications as level 2 and 3 option. Institute of Plumbing and Heating Kate Green enjoy working within the challenging and [email protected] an adult learning you will need a qualified www.plumblocal.co.uk/franchises/ Engineering (IPHE) Counties: Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, dynamic environment. I am passionate plumber/plumbing firm to take you on as a trainingProgram.html - Plumblocal offers www.iphe.org.uk Middlesex about our programme’s role within Phil Dicks “I strongly believe in the need for cricket and thoroughly enjoy working with Counties: Durham everyone to have someone to talk to… and supporting such a diverse group of “I have been with Durham in one capacity in a confidential and non-judgemental individuals to manage life and fulfil their or another since their minor county days. way. It is this fundamental belief that has aspirations on and off the field.” Now that they are established first-class J>;FHE<;II?ED7B9H?9A;J;HI½ led me to previous roles and currently Background: BA (Hons) Sport and Human county I’m enjoying the challenge of my work within cricket – supporting Movement Studies, MSc Sport and helping the club and the individual players 9ED;BFB?D; and challenging players to achieve their Exercise Science, Certificate for Learning fulfil their significant potential.” potential both on and off the field” & Teacher in Higher Education, taught in Background: Athlete adviser with EIS for Background: BSc/BA (Hons) Sport Higher Education for five years, Graduate three years, Worked with Sport England for Science & Media Arts, Postgraduate 15 years, BA (Hons) Sports Studies, Certificate in Careers Counselling for Elite Diploma in Management Studies. 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