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Interview: Achieving Work-Life Balance as a Tennis Coach

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The stresses around maintaining a healthy work-life balance are huge for people in all walks of life. However, the challenge of achieving work-life balance is particularly challenging for sports coaches when “normal” working hours are by necessity outside of the hours most people work. That makes it hard for coaches to spend quality time with…

Professional development: mentoring from the coaches perspective

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In this third and final article in our mini-series on mentoring, I want my last words to come from the coaches who have benefitted from mentoring. Mentoring isn’t for everyone. What these coaches share is the reason why they prioritised mentoring and what it meant to them and their coaching business. I hope that sharing these candid thoughts will…

Professional Development: principles of finding the right mentor

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By Mark Tennant, Director of inspire2coach In the first article in this mini-series, How to Tell if Mentoring is the Best Approach For You, I defined mentoring and gave some examples of questions to ask yourself to decide if mentoring is for you. It’s time to look at how mentoring works and look at a guide to finding…

Professional Development: How to tell if mentoring is the best approach for you

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By Mark Tennant, Director of inspire2coach What’s the best way to learn as a coach? Is there a perfect way to learn new ideas, develop new philosophies and strategies? Since i2c started in 2007, we have qualified more than 7000 coaches in the UK; that’s 7000 coaches who have attended one of our Level 1,…

Mark Tennant’s top job interview tips for tennis coaches

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During his career Mark Tennant, Director of inspire2coach, has interviewed many coaches. Mark has seen people do really well when interviewed – where others didn’t do so well. We decided that a great way to celebrate the launch of our new jobs page would be to ask Mark to share some advice that coaches can use when applying for coaching positions.

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