Abstract
There has been evidence of positive impact made by sports, especially endurance sports in the process of healing depression and most importantly, trauma. Previous research conducted across 26 countries with a sample population of 125,000 people showed that a third of them had experienced trauma. If lighter cases as defined by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition) had been considered, the number would have jumped to about 70%. A 2016 study by The Conversation journal (Contribution came from various authors, e.g. Danny Kingsley from Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University and Holy Thorpe, University of Wakaito. ) I will include more authors in my reference list, and I kindly request you to advise me on the best referencing style.) shows how communities that have been affected by disaster, conflict and other forms of instability have integrated sports into their day-to-day activities to help the population get back on track after the shocking events. I will use data from selected medical, sports and journalism sources to break down the process of integrating endurance sports into wellness and healing of trauma and determine the best mix of approaches that can be used to ensure that these sports achieve the intended goal. When completed, this research will also be able to guide the collaboration between endurance sports and other disciplines like guidance and counselling to ensure the best outcome.
Table of contents
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Introduction
Endurance sports; History, forms and general discussion.
Trauma; History, types, causes and discussions.
Evidence of integration of endurance sports in dealing with trauma.
Thesis statement
Endurance sports play a vital role in healing of trauma by helping individuals to develop self-awareness, persistence, resilience and social-emotional skills among many other traits and behaviors that help in this process. These kinds of sports can be easily combined with other solutions to trauma such as psychoeducation and cognitive behavior therapy to strengthen the healing process and avoid relapse.
Approach/methods
This research was meant to explore the theory of endurance training in relationship to healing of trauma, so qualitative methods were the most used given that statistical data was minimum. There were cases that had to be determined quantitatively, even though the broader part of the thesis used qualitative methods. In conclusion, a mixed method approach was used.
Specifically, the methods used were;
i) Surveys
ii) Questionnaires
iii) Interviews
iv) Case studies
v) Delphi method . – This is a topic on which views may be different, so I decided to include this method so as to address any controversies encountered when collecting information.
Preliminary results and discussion
Data collected and analyzed will be collected and discussed here before any conclusions are made. Results from quantitative methods including graphs and charts will be seen on this part.
Work plan
A Gantt chart will be made indicating how I planned my work schedule prior to writing my thesis.
Implications of research
This research will go a long way in changing the way trauma is addressed while encouraging people to participate in sporting activities whose importance has been greatly underestimated. My thesis will also encourage research on similar topics and encourage collaboration between sports and medicine fields for the benefit of the population. The data collected and analyzed will change the discussion on sports and mental health completely.
List of references
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Employee Retention
A comprehensive employee retention program can play a vital role in both attracting and retaining key employees, as well as in reducing turnover and its related cost. All of these contribute to an organization`s productivity and overall business performance. Leaders can increase employee commitment through providing regular feedback in a positive way, motivate followers, solve problems and build employee commitment for organizations and remain employee in an organization [Piccolo and Colquitt, 2006]. Effective leadership gives employees the ability to speak and be vocal about their ideas. Effective leadership has always been the prime reason for the growth of an organization and has helped in retaining the most valuable asset, its employees.
It very well may be sensibly contended that the business condition in which associations presently work is regularly changing, exceptionally unsure, and progressively aggressive. As a result of this dynamic essential move in the business condition, authoritative pioneers are perceiving that long haul achievement relies on the capacity of pioneers to create and keep up viable and elite groups. The aggregate commitments of these groups enhance associations by “expanding profitability, utilizing assets all the more adequately, more prominent advancement and imagination, and better basic leadership and critical thinking” (Northouse, 2016, p. 364). This outcomes in constructive exhibition and individuals results, which give the association favored key situating and an upper hand.
There is anyway a plenty of obstructions to creating and keeping up exceptionally powerful and profoundly working groups. Both inner and outer powers can block colleagues from using their aggregate abilities and fluctuated characteristics, to work cooperatively and firmly towards plainly characterized and adjusted objectives, and a typical reason. The expectation of this paper is to address a portion of the more basic hindrances that groups must defeat so as to make esteem, thus that colleagues can arrive at their maximum capacity. Specifically, this paper will address inept authority, ineffectively created objectives and misalignment of aggregate objectives, and insufficient and poor correspondence. Proposals for vital activities will be offered which intend to wipe out the previously mentioned impediments to group achievement.
Absence of a Competent Leader
Probably the greatest trap to effective group building is the absence of a skilled pioneer. As indicated by Nelson and Quick (2013) skill is the capacity to play out an occupation satisfactorily (p. 413). While this definition is oversimplified in nature and doesn’t represent the bunch of complexities found in the present business scene, equipped administration is basic to the advancement and the support of profoundly compelling groups. As a result of the expanded extent of impact a group head has over colleagues, undertakings and obligations, improvement and execution of objectives, and the common vision, it makes sense that the ability of a pioneer can either drive the group to progress or block its encouraging.
Ramifications of Incompetent Leadership
Group elements. At the point when a group head needs capability he/she will be not able build up a group included people who have the essential information aptitudes, capacities, and center skills, to viably complete the elements of the group. To this end, pioneers won’t have the option to keep up a group where colleagues have the limit or the abilities to settle on choices that lead to expanded efficiency, and consequently group and authoritative achievement.
Suggestions for progress. Pioneers should give cautious idea and thought when building up a group. Colleagues ought to have an assortment of information, aptitudes, capacities, mastery, and center capabilities with the goal that assignments can be properly isolated and effectively practiced (Northouse, 2016, p. 370). Nonstop preparing and advancement openings ought to be given as the group and the group’s objectives advance. As the requirements of the group change, pioneers should create viable enrollment systems to draw in colleagues that will add to the achievement and viability of the group.
Trust. A clumsy pioneer can’t build up a group established on trust. When there is an absence of trust colleagues might not believe in their pioneer or in their individual partners. Without trust, colleagues will exhaust their time and vitality concentrated on the conduct of others instead of on accomplishing the group’s objectives (Brenner, 2012, para. 15). The nonappearance of trust can likewise frustrate inventiveness and development thusly the group gets stagnate and unfit to make an incentive for the association.
Proposals for progress. So as to construct a culture of trust inside a group, pioneers must exhibit the conduct they need others to copy which incorporates being straightforward with their very own shortcomings and disappointments. This will let colleagues realize that the pioneer doesn’t put him/herself above others, yet rather is humanly imperfect and has vulnerabilities. It additionally gives colleagues certainty to show their own weakness, accordingly expanding the degree of trust among the gathering. Pioneers should take uncommon consideration to rehearse steadiness, congruity, dependability, and uprightness, on the off chance that they need to encourage an unending situation of trust (Bennis, 2009, p. 152).
Strengthening. An inept pioneer is unequipped for creating and keeping up a group which is propelled, roused, drew in, and engaged. Such groups show counter-beneficial practices including absence of duty, low degrees of execution through inadequacy and wastefulness, quest for personal circumstances, and expanded truancy and turnover. Separated groups individuals affect in general group and hierarchical wellbeing which can adversely affect the main concern.
Suggestions for progress. Pioneers can enable and draw in representatives by permitting independence and investment in basic choices that influence the group as well as the association. Colleagues are than propelled and roused to take a personal stake in observing the group and the association succeed. Pioneers ought to benefit from the changed foundations, properties, and encounters of their colleagues, which open the entryway to development and innovativeness. Such a domain builds spirit, commitment, and it expands pledge to the accomplishment of the group. This dynamic shows that planned endeavors of partners under solid initiative can be fruitful when each colleague is permitted to work at their ideal level.
With an end goal to alleviate uncouth initiative we should initially perceive that capability incorporates “social/relationship abilities, enthusiastic knowledge, thinking aptitudes, care, focus and mindfulness” (Pitagorsky, 2013, para. 3). By moving toward inadequacy as a multi-faceted issue which doesn’t exist in a vacuum, we will have the option to all the more likely distinguish inventive answers for create and keep up profoundly viable groups.
Absence of Well Developed Goals and Goal Alignment
Setting up plainly characterized objectives is a central segment of group achievement. Objectives fill in as a diagram for all colleagues, and are essential in the improvement of activity designs that help colleagues understand their objectives. All individuals from the group ought to adjust their own objectives to those of the group so that there is group union, thus that all individuals are completely contributed and working cooperatively towards a typical reason and aggregate objective fulfillment.
Ramifications of Poor Goal Development and Lack of Goal Alignment
Loss of Purpose. At the point when pioneers neglect to plainly explain objectives colleagues dismiss their motivation, and inevitably the elements of the group are debilitated due to lack of engagement and demotivation (Brenner, 2012, para. 6). At the point when colleagues are not given clear and succinct objectives they can’t decide a purpose behind what they do. They can’t perceive the worth they add to the association, offering ascend to “uncertainty about headings and needs” (Lencioni, 2002, p. 209). This outcomes in colleagues not submitting themselves completely to the group or the association, profitability is reduced, and there is proof of a distinction between group objectives and hierarchical objectives (Gallo, 2011, para. 3).
Suggestions for progress. Workers at all levels must have the option to comprehend their separate jobs, and how their commitments make worth and result in authoritative achievement. To do this, pioneers and colleagues ought to recognize the objectives to one another. Pioneers ought to likewise enable time to examine and discuss applicable parts of the objectives engaged with the future assignments or vision. Groups would then be able to encounter profitable clash intended to bind together considerations and comprehension.