Guest mentors
guest mentor episodes
guest mentor episodes
Throughout the program, you will have the opportunity to engage with and learn from our team of guest mentors. Within these episodes, you will enjoy interaction activities and educational material around a magnitude of coaching aspects, allowing you to develop your skill set and knowledge within a variety of areas, critical to the role of a goalkeeper coach.
You will advance your knowledge within key areas, such as the physical performance of your goalkeeper, psychology around the demands of the position and as a coach, tactical analysis and the habits of creating successful staff relationships.
Post-episode, you will also have the opportunity to rewatch the previous episode for 30 days, presenting an additional opportunity for you to digest the material and rewatch any conversations that you found useful and beneficial throughout the episode.
UPCOMING EPISODES
EDDIE NIEDZWIECKI
TRANSITIONS WITHIN COACHING ROLES
To finish off our exceptional panel of guest mentors, we welcome Eddie Niedzwiecki to this month’s episode. Eddie is a former goalkeeper, who transitioned into a goalkeeper coach, before taking the step into an assistant coach role.
We discussed how to interact and communicate with your coaching staff, the development of goalkeepers and ways in which you can excel within your coaching environment.
TOM HEATON
PROFESSIONAL GOALKEEPER
To put it lightly, this session was simply incredible. During our 60mins private session with Tom, he gave us incredible insight into the psychological aspect of game preparation, as well as his physical, technical and tactical needs.
With in-depth stories about Tom’s career, how goalkeeper coaches can get the best out of their goalkeeper and so much more, we can’t thank Tom enough for contributing his time to your GkNexus mentor program, with Eric Steele.
chris marshall
sports psychologist
Another incredible experience, as we welcomed Chris Marshall back to deliver module 2 of his sports psychology course.
We enjoyed presentation deliveries from each group, on topics that are critical to the role of the goalkeeper coach. Chris also offered ‘live’ feedback for all mentees and communicated some invaluable content for our mentees to take away with them.
chris marshall
sports psychologist
An incredible start to part 1 of our psychology module, with leading sports psychologist Chris Marshall. Hosted alongside your program mentor, Eric Steele, Chris delivered a fantastic presentation on player/coach behaviour and our environments.
The focal point of the session was the COPE strategy, offered via mindflick, which brought many fascinating discussions.
Chris also communicated micro groups and ‘task topics’ for next months call on November 19th, within which you will be asked to deliver around your designated goalkeeping/coaching topic.
nick harvey
physical performance coach
We are delighted to welcome our first guest mentor on to the GkNexus mentor program, as we are joined by elite physical performance coach, Nick Harvey. This episode will take place ‘live’ on Thursday March 18th at 2pm GMT.
Nick will deliver an incredible presentation around the physical performance of the goalkeeper. You will be able to enjoy discussion and interactions around the physical qualities required for maximum performance within training and match environments, resources around goalkeeping specific fitness and learn how to prepare your goalkeepers for the position specific physical demands of the game.
DISCUSSION AREA
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