Planning and Managing a Mentoring Programme in Sport 8


As an example of how a programme may be structured, the pilot project was set out as follows:


November 2010 Workshop involving:


key staff from Sport NI; sports coach UK; Hutton Park Consulting; selected coaches and programme managers (all full-time paid employees) from the governing bodies and


1:1 meeting between programme manager and consultant to discuss specific context and issues (mentors had not been appointed at this stage)


• Clarify the aim • Get to know each other • Discuss existing knowledge and views about mentoring


• Identify key principles, issues and processes related to mentoring project and programme


• Undertake a training needs analysis (TNA) and draft a Personal Development Plan (PDP) – only for coaches.


January 2011 Workshop involving:


key staff from Sport NI; sports coach UK; Hutton Park Consulting; selected coaches; mentors and programme managers from the governing bodies


April 2011 Planning/review meeting involving:


key staff from Sport NI; sports coach UK; Hutton Park Consulting; selected coaches; mentors and programme managers from the governing bodies


• The specifics of the programme • Agreed ways of working • Key skills needed within a mentoring programme • Coaches and mentors practising these skills while working together.


• Discuss generic development needs • Identify intial implementation challenges and discuss solutions


• Agree next steps and process for reviewing progress.


July and August 2011


Distribution of mid-term online review survey to: coaches; mentors and programme managers


• Obtain feedback from coaches and mentors


• Evaluate programme to date • Contribute to mid-term review and thoughts on next steps.


November 2011 Review meeting involving:


key staff from Sport NI; Hutton Park Consulting and programme managers


• Review results from survey as a group • Identify common issues and learning • Conduct 1:1 meetings between consultant and project managers to focus on specifics of each programme and explore options to develop further.


December 2011 Review meeting involving:


key staff from Sport NI; Hutton Park Consulting; coaches; mentors and programme managers


• Summarise work to date and examine results from survey


• Elicit any additional comments since survey • Summarise key issues from review session with programme managers


• Identify key learning points • Make recommendations for future development.


Field-based mentoring3


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