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A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches

A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches. Workshop Outcomes. By the end of the workshop, delegates will be able to:. identify important learning opportunities for coaches outline the potential roles of the mentor in the development of coaches

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A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches

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  1. A Guide to Mentoring Sports Coaches

  2. Workshop Outcomes By the end of the workshop, delegates will be able to: • identify important learning opportunities for coaches • outline the potential roles of the mentor in the development of coaches • explain how a mentor can help to maximise these learning opportunities • manage the self-reflection, coach profiling and development planning processes • identify the core skills of mentoring • develop a personal mentor profile and development plan

  3. Stages of ‘Coach’ Learning

  4. Mentoring in Different Contexts

  5. Mentoring Triangle

  6. How People Learn:Information Processing

  7. The Self-reflection Cycle

  8. Mentor’s Role in Reflection

  9. Core Mentoring Skills • Active listening • Active questioning • Developmental feedback • Observation

  10. Structure of a Mentoring Situation • Pre-session meeting • Activity/meeting • Post-session reflection

  11. Important Aims Pre-session meeting • A shared understanding • Clarifying expectations • Establishing priorities • Agreeing goals Session (coaching session or other activity) • Normality • Interaction depends on: event; stage of learning of the coach; level of acquaintance Reflection • Quality of communication • Coach leads • Beware of advising and fixing

  12. Coach Profiling • Outlines the coach’s self-image • Helps to develop empathy between mentor and coach • Helps the mentor to be relevant to the coach’s expressed needs • Is the basis for a development plan for the coach

  13. Influences on Coach Profiling

  14. Profiling Instructions • The coach outlines the qualities of a good coach in their opinion • The meaning of each quality is clarified by the coach • The coach selects the most important qualities • These are plotted on the profile • The coach rates him/herself in each quality on a scale of 1–10 • The score is plotted on the profile

  15. SMARTER Goals

  16. Key Steps to Developing a Personal Development Plan

  17. Mentoring Can: • serve as a motivational experience for coaches • improve your own coaching by analysis of another’s methods and ideas • improve your coaching by enhancing coaching-related skills such as communication skills, analysis and observation • give job satisfaction and a sense of great achievement • build greater awareness of the needs of other coaches • challenge preconceptions and beliefs • assist coaches with self-reflection

  18. Workshop Outcomes By the end of the workshop, delegates will be able to: • identify important learning opportunities for coaches • outline the potential roles of the mentor in the development of coaches • explain how a mentor can help to maximise these learning opportunities • manage the self-reflection, coach profiling and development planning processes • identify the core skills of mentoring • develop a personal mentor profile and development plan

  19. Thank youHave a safe journey home

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