Positioning Mentoring as a Coach Development Tool: Recommendations for Future Practice and Research

Leading elite association football referees: challenges in the cross-cultural organization of a geographically dispersed group

“…(Arthur, elite/ex-elite referee category from England) Whilst the use of mentoring is something that can improve integration (Kopcha, 2010;Ross, Bruderle, & Meakim, 2015) it is also evident that unless these relationships are organized and led effectively, they can be harmful to less experienced participants (Eby & McManus, 2004;Turban & Lee, 2007). Moreover, there is a lack of empirical evidence designed to evaluate the effectiveness of mentoring as a development tool (McQuade, Davis, & Nash, 2015). Therefore, it is not only problematic to organize these mentoring programs, and place younger, less experienced referees with more experienced officials, it is difficult to evidence that such relationships actually enhance integration and development.…”

Physical-technical conditions, coaching and nutrition: An integrated approach to promote cohesion in sports team

“…Cohesion is often identified as a simple relationship of friendship but in a group it is important to verify the task orientation to reach a clear and stimulating goal that is shared by all members. Recent studies have investigated factors such as cohesion (Aoyagi, Cox, McGuire, 2008;Murray, 2006;Turman 2003;Carron, Bray, Eys, 2002;Gammage, Carron, Estabrooks, 2001;Spink, 1995), which can influence the performance of sports teams suggesting appropriate management with effective techniques (Hoffmann, Loughead, 2016a;Fairhurst, Bloom, Harvey, 2016;McQuade, Davis, Nash, 2015). In the literature on different organizational contexts the concept of cohesion has been associated with better performance (Lurey, Raisinghani, 2001;Maznevski, Chudoba, 2000) and greater satisfaction (Chidambaram, 1996) and some studies emphasize that sports teams with greater cohesion achieve better results compared to less cohesive sports teams (Carron, Colman, Wheeler, 2002).…”

One high school basketball coach’s self-study of leadership development

“…As noted earlier, there have been numerous calls for mentoring in sports literature (Gould & Voelker, 2010;McQuade et al, 2015;Wright & Smith, 2000), but there is no framework that has been postulated or researched at length. The mentoring situation in education is still being debated with regard to its aims (Roberts, 2000), and in sports and coaching there is also considerable debate about the nature of the formalisation and structure of mentoring in various countries and situations (Cushion, 2006;Jones et al, 2009;Nash, 2003).…”

“…The mentoring process is typically successful if there are positive relationships between mentors and protégés (Riggio, 2013). Mentoring has been advocated in literature for professional development of coaches (McQuade, Davis, & Nash, 2015) and learning leadership for athletes (Gould & Voelker, 2010) because it provides coaches and athletes with support. Providing mentors with professional development and support is important (Jones, Harris, & Miles, 2009;Wright & Smith, 2000), but mentoring rarely occurs with sport coaches who might attempt to develop leadership among their athletes.…”