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The Next Shift: A Guide to Identify Your Core Skills and Successfully Transition from Sports
Let's Be Honest. We Aren't Athletes Forever.
The Next A Guide to Identify Your Core Skills and Successfully Transition from Sports is a unique and moving handbook for all athletes who wonder and sometimes struggle with transitioning successfully from sport to their Next Shift. As a young athlete, Judi Gilbert didn't know what sport had given her, and it wasn't until after she left competitive sports that she started to think more about it.
Hear from Judi and other athletes who have successfully transitioned from sport to another career. Share their journey and anecdotes and discover the skills and experiences they acquired to transition effectively from sports.
As a former varsity athlete with over thirty years of training and management experience, Judi helps other athletes implement the steps necessary to answer the questions all athletes want and need to know.
What is a transferable skill, and how do I identify my skills?Why is my personal brand important?How does my reputation impact my success?How can networking support my transition?How do I use the skills I acquired in sport to enhance my job search?
As athletes, we often compartmentalize our skills. We often think the skills we have developed in sport and the experiences we have accumulated are only good for sports, but that isn't true. We must recognize that skills we acquired in sport help us to be successful outside of sport.
In Praise of The Next A Guide to Identify Your Core Skills and Successfully Transition from Sports
One to remember... A book for all athletes and parents too! Judi is to be commended for her ability to take the reader on a journey of personal reflection as they begin to think about their transition from sport to their Next Shift.
As a former professional athlete, I was fortunate to develop many of the skills that my niece Judi speaks about. All athletes must identify the skills they acquired from sport and know how to use them to their advantage when they are no longer able to compete. This book will do that!
Well done, Judi!
Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet, Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee, 1983
Being a young athlete and reading the stories in this book is both inspiring and relatable to me. Learning how I can use the skills that I've acquired from a young age and how to transfer them to a working environment is key to helping me grow my resume and confidence and to get to the next level.
Brady Allen, Hockey Player, U18 AA
Judi Gilbert has written a must-read book for anyone who understands the role that sports and competition play in our lives from early childhood, through adulthood and into parenthood. Her journey in competitive sports from a young age gives her a unique perspective and a credible voice on how to navigate the world as a competitor, a parent of an athlete, a mentor, and a coach. Whether she is writing about self-worth, self-doubt, or self-confidence, she guides you effortlessly through the challenges to find your voice and develop your personal brand.
The Next A Guide to Identify Your Core Skills and Successfully Transition from Sports is a unique and moving handbook for all athletes who wonder and sometimes struggle with transitioning successfully from sport to their Next Shift. As a young athlete, Judi Gilbert didn't know what sport had given her, and it wasn't until after she left competitive sports that she started to think more about it.
Hear from Judi and other athletes who have successfully transitioned from sport to another career. Share their journey and anecdotes and discover the skills and experiences they acquired to transition effectively from sports.
As a former varsity athlete with over thirty years of training and management experience, Judi helps other athletes implement the steps necessary to answer the questions all athletes want and need to know.
What is a transferable skill, and how do I identify my skills?Why is my personal brand important?How does my reputation impact my success?How can networking support my transition?How do I use the skills I acquired in sport to enhance my job search?
As athletes, we often compartmentalize our skills. We often think the skills we have developed in sport and the experiences we have accumulated are only good for sports, but that isn't true. We must recognize that skills we acquired in sport help us to be successful outside of sport.
In Praise of The Next A Guide to Identify Your Core Skills and Successfully Transition from Sports
One to remember... A book for all athletes and parents too! Judi is to be commended for her ability to take the reader on a journey of personal reflection as they begin to think about their transition from sport to their Next Shift.
As a former professional athlete, I was fortunate to develop many of the skills that my niece Judi speaks about. All athletes must identify the skills they acquired from sport and know how to use them to their advantage when they are no longer able to compete. This book will do that!
Well done, Judi!
Bobby Hull, The Golden Jet, Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee, 1983
Being a young athlete and reading the stories in this book is both inspiring and relatable to me. Learning how I can use the skills that I've acquired from a young age and how to transfer them to a working environment is key to helping me grow my resume and confidence and to get to the next level.
Brady Allen, Hockey Player, U18 AA
Judi Gilbert has written a must-read book for anyone who understands the role that sports and competition play in our lives from early childhood, through adulthood and into parenthood. Her journey in competitive sports from a young age gives her a unique perspective and a credible voice on how to navigate the world as a competitor, a parent of an athlete, a mentor, and a coach. Whether she is writing about self-worth, self-doubt, or self-confidence, she guides you effortlessly through the challenges to find your voice and develop your personal brand.
136 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2022
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About the author
Judi Gilbert
1 book1 followerJudi Gilbert is an author whose book has combined her passion for sport and her desire to help athletes recognize their skills beyond the rink, field, court, pool, or pitch. Judi is also a leadership coach, business owner, consultant and speaker who is unwavering in her belief that building capability in people and teams will help organizations thrive and allow people to triumph.
From an early age Judi excelled at multiple sports including ice hockey. She knew hockey was not only Canada’s game, but it was hers too. It didn’t hurt being part of a legacy of successful hockey enthusiasts-her uncles are NHL stars Bobby & Dennis Hull and she is certain her hereditary past plays a part in her love for the game. By the time she was 13 years old multiple schools had begun recruiting her to join their hockey programs.
Judi grew up in Belleville, ON., studied Communications at York University and played varsity ice hockey.
Following graduation, she worked for an iconic greeting card company in marketing and corporate training. Missing her roots, let’s be honest, she was missing her 6-month-old niece, Judi returned to Belleville. Much to her delight four more nieces followed and 28 years later she has never looked back.
To learn more about Judi and the work she is passionate about visit judigilbert.ca or thenextshift.org
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August 28, 2022
Many transferable skills listed in this book and great examples of how they’ve prepared us for not only life after sports, but for whatever chapter we are starting in our book of Life.
Love the workbook provided at the end. The sample resumé and ‘how to build a cover letter’ are also added bonuses and very helpful tools required for The Next Shift!
Love the workbook provided at the end. The sample resumé and ‘how to build a cover letter’ are also added bonuses and very helpful tools required for The Next Shift!
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