Conference set to develop high performance workforce
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Jessica Whitehorn 08 July 2009
UK Sport has today announced the dates for its 2009 conference, which will take place from Monday 09 November to Wednesday 11 November, at The Belfry in Warwickshire.
The annual conference, previously known as the World Class Coaching Conference, has been renamed from this year onwards, to the World Class Performance Conference.
Since its inception in 2001, the World Class Coaching Conference has become well established as an important annual event for coaches, but has also gradually grown to accommodate chief executives, performance directors and sports science and medicine practitioners alike. The conference provides a forum to network, debate and share best practice, aiming to equip delegates with the skills and knowledge to make sustainable changes to a sport’s World Class Performance Programme.
UK Sport’s Director of Performance, Peter Keen, said: “The name change to the World Class Performance Conference reflects this event’s evolution into a key development opportunity for everybody working with athletes in the UK high performance system. It also supports the fact that all members of performance programme staff work together as a multidisciplinary team.
“We are currently exploring innovative ways to ensure the conference is more interactive for delegates this year, as well as identifying specific themes we would like to carry through to each conference between now and 2012.
“The aim is to ensure our high performance workforce is provided with a development opportunity that can have the most impact on athletes’ performances in three years time and beyond.”
Danny Kerry, Head Coach to the Great Britain women’s hockey team and participant on UK Sport’s Elite Coach development programme, said: “UK Sport’s World Class Coaching Conference has provided a very necessary point every year for all of us involved in sport to listen, interact, think differently and be inspired.
“Like high performance sport the need to evolve and adapt is paramount and the changing nature of the conference reflects that culture. It will be interesting to see where the new look World Class Performance Conference takes us.”
There will be a change in format this year, meaning the conference will take place over three days rather than four, allowing delegates to attend the entire event, rather than splitting into two separate halves as has been the case in previous years. Further information on the theme and content will be sent to Performance Directors towards the end of the summer, allowing them time to consider who would be the most effective member(s) of their World Class Performance Programme staff to attend.
Further updates will also appear on the UK Sport website in the build up to the event.
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