Coach Development Opportunities

Sat 28th Sept 2024, 1pm – 4pm (lunch from 1215), Emirates Arena Glasgow

Alongside formal and informal learning opportunities, mentoring can play a key role in the ongoing development of coaches. To support coaches and their clubs in the provision of mentoring support, scottishathletics are hosting the sportscotland ‘Introduction to Mentoring’ workshop.

This workshop is a great starting point for anyone who is currently, or considering, undertaking a mentoring role in athletics and is open to all those currently qualified and licensed at coach level (or beyond) whether they are experienced or if mentoring is completely new to them.

Focusing on the key themes of; knowing yourself, knowing others and knowing mentoring, the interactive session will explore the following areas:

• What mentors do
• Mentoring approaches
• Importance of developing an understanding of your mentee and their environment
• Mentoring tools
• Our personal strengths and areas for development as mentors
• Peer support

To book your place please follow this link to the scottishathletics event booking page.

To support coaches in their ongoing development, our colleagues at sportscotland have developed a catalogue of free online learning opportunities.

Covering a range of topics as these modules are self paced they can be completed in any order and built in to a plan individualised to each coaches needs.

The courses are hosted on the learning platform Brightspace. If you are not already registered, you will need to set up a login to to proceed. You will be guided through this process when you are enrolling on your first course.

You can access the catalogue here – https://learning.sportscotland.org.uk/