Sarah McQuade welcomes the second cohort to the Mentoring Soccer Coaches diploma course, explaining how the course will work and the outcomes for the learners.

Hi everyone and welcome to the course Mentoring Soccer Coaches.
This noticeboard is for you to introduce yourselves to one another. Can you post your name and current coaching status (club, level, age and qualification), your reason for enrolling on the course and an interesting fact about yourself?
Finally, can you upload a recent picture of yourself so people can start to put a name to a face.

In this lesson, we will explore what mentoring is and define it.

In this second lesson, we will explore the role of the mentor. We will help you to reflect on what you are currently doing as a mentor, what qualities you already demonstrate, and what ingredients you would like to add to help you become an even effective mentor to soccer coaches.

In this third lesson, we move on to thinking about mentoring relationships.

The degree to which mentoring relationship is structured and managed depends on how old the relationship is, and the level of coach expertise.

In this fourth lesson, we look at the mentoring cycle.

This quiz will test your knowledge of the topics and information covered within the first block.
Good Luck.

Sarah McQuade and Linda Low look ahead to the second block of the Mentoring Soccer Coaches diploma course, covering coach profiling and supported practice in the field.

Perhaps the most critical phase of any learning and development relationship is the Coach Profiling phase.

This is the phase that is used to help coaches clearly establish what they already know and can do.

Identify one coach who would benefit from a coach profile exercise. Please complete the coach profile and upload your finished version to this board. Feel free to comment and ask questions on each coach profile uploaded.

In this section of Block 2, we consider Professional Development Planning and helping coaches clearly articulate what their coaching goals are and explore how they will achieve them.

Working with the same coach that you helped to facilitate a coach profile with we would like you now to undertake a Professional Development Planning exercise with them.

Having explored and understood how you can help coaches create their own Professional Development Plans, we now look at how you can provide support and guidance within their coaching environment. This lesson considers experiential learning, observing coaching performance and evaluation...

Your task is to plan for, observe and evaluate your coach's performance. Please upload your reflections from your coach's observations using the reflective template from the lesson.

We now consider how monitoring and evaluating a coach's development can enable them to chart their progress, celebrate their achievements, and change their PDP as required...

We now reach the final lesson of this second block of your Mentoring Soccer Coaches diploma course, which looks at Developing Your Mentoring Effectiveness.

Sarah McQuade and Linda Low take students through the third webinar of the Mentoring Soccer Coaches diploma course.

The course, which begins on the 21st April 2022, will be led by Sarah McQuade, our Coach Development Mentor with over 20 years of experience working in sports coach education. It will run over an 8-week period, comprising live and recorded webinars, online learning, forums, discussions and course assessment and diploma certification endorsed by United Soccer Coaches.