{"id":6026,"date":"2014-10-24T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fitproblog.mysites.io\/could-your-business-be-doomed\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T09:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T09:01:50","slug":"could-your-business-be-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/could-your-business-be-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Could your business be doomed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of 1,200 exercise and management professionals, which was published by <strong>Central YMCA Qualifications<\/strong>, has identified skills gaps in the active leisure sector. Is your business doomed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>YMCA<\/strong> commissioned ukactive to conduct the research at a time when the government is reaching out to employers to take greater responsibility with regard to taking ownership of the skills policy agenda.<\/p>\n<h2>Doomed?<\/h2>\n<p>The research found that over half<strong> (55%) of managers believe that exercise professionals are under-skilled when trying to deliver social and psychological support to inactive people.<\/strong> Leading fitness and leisure employers have consequently called for definitive career pathways to be established within the physical activity sector. Action has also been targeted towards better <strong>counselling and motivational interviewing<\/strong> within training to try and prepare the workforce to cope with the growing number of inactive people across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The survey cited that <strong>46% of exercise professionals state changing<\/strong> behaviour and lifestyle trends as one of the greatest barriers when working with inactive consumers, and employers and exercise professionals have highlighted the need for<strong> \u2018social\u2019 skills such as empathetic communication<\/strong> in order to support the one in four people in England who are inactive.<\/p>\n<p>A total of<strong> 83% of those surveyed concluded that communication was the most important skill to possess<\/strong> when dealing with inactive people. Many stressed the unease they felt in terms of the simplicity with\u00a0which young exercise professionals can enter the industry with a minimal development plan.<strong> The problematic nature of this is that they are underprepared to develop a programme to suit the needs and experiences of those individuals who are inactive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the work that YMCA does, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ymcafit.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ymcafit.org.uk\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ymcafit.org.uk\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We would love to hear how you use your social skills to work with inactive clients, in order to build up your\u00a0psychological skill. Let&#8217;s get social: you can tweet us at @fitpro_online!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of 1,200 exercise and management professionals, which was published by Central YMCA Qualifications,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[102,105,106,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-6026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-inactivity","9":"tag-psychological-skill","10":"tag-social-support","11":"tag-ymca-survey"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}