This episode is a great conversation with Espen Sæther, development consultant for the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. We spend time talking about his background and values, the importance of letting go a bit of control as a coach, the importance of winning and losing, and how to measure success. The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! Start your new season off right with a free trial of CoachTools! If you are interested in using CoachTools go to www.coachtools.net and fill out the “Start Free Trial” Form an ..read more

This episode features Martin Fossli, Norway’s U16 boy’s National Team Head Coach and Head Coach of Frisk Asker U18/NTG! We talk with Martin about the impacts of his teacher education on his coaching, developing confidence as a coach, the environment in NTG and the National Team Programs. We also talk about how he is restructuring the NTG program in his first year there and implementing changes from his own ideas and from the federation! The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! Start your new season off right w ..read more

This episode features Branislav Bendik, Head of Coaching in Banska Bystrica in Slovakia. You may remember Brani from our 7th ever episode, the skill development round table. We now talk with Brani about his work in the club, how he is developing a coaching culture, and the development of their players! It was great to catch up with Brani and hear all the ideas he is implementing in Slovakia! The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! Start your new season off right with a free trial of CoachTools! If you are int ..read more

This episode features Branislav Bendik, Head of Coaching in Banska Bystrica in Slovakia. You may remember Brani from our 7th ever episode, the skill development round table. We now talk with Brani about his work in the club, how he is developing a coaching culture, and the development of their players! It was great to catch up with Brani and hear all the ideas he is implementing in Slovakia! The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! Start your new season off right with a free trial of CoachTools! If you are int ..read more

This week’s episode, we talk with Kyle Williams, the Chief Empowerment Officer for A Long Talk. A Long Talk is an organization with the goal of putting an Antiracist at every dinner table in America and to educate to end hate. With Kyle we talk about the experiences that lead to the beginnings of the organization and how we can become more antiracist in our actions. This is an important conversations inside of sports and outside of sports and we hope everyone finds the talk beneficial. A Long Talk offers a lot of resources to help educate people to become antiracist. To check out the resources ..read more

In this episode we talk with Steve Thompson, USA Hockey’s Regional Manager for Goaltending Development. We chat about the requirements for goaltending, how coaches with no background in goalies can help their goalies, and how to develop goalies. We also get into ice time, bench activities and a lot of other tips for helping out goalies! The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! Start your new season off right with a free trial of CoachTools! If you are interested in using CoachTools go to www.coachtools.net and ..read more

This week we are joined Vitor Ciampolini, a PhD candidate in Physical Education. We talk with Vitor about how coaches can approach coach education opportunities to take away something for their practice. We then talk about Mille, A Coach Developer from the Brazilian Rugby Federation who Vitor shadowed. Through Mille’s story we learn about being learner-centered in our facilitation and some of the things that made Mille’s approach so powerful. The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! If you are interested in us ..read more

This conversation features John Riley, Player Development Coach for the Philadelphia Flyers Organization. With John we begin by exploring his path through hockey to the NHL level including his time as a math teacher. Then we talk about the holistic evaluation and how he helps players to develop but not deal with the pressure by themselves. We finish by talking about his role and how he works with athletes. The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! If you are interested in using CoachTools go to www.coachtools.n ..read more

In this episode we are joined by Stig Arve Sæther, Associate Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. With Stig we talk about Talent Development, a topic that is crucial in coaching and is quite complex. Stig offers some great insight into what talent really is, the difference between a static and dynamic view of talent, why there is some misconceptions about talent. We also talk about why it is important to understand how our athletes view talent and how that relates to Dweck’s work on mindset. The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to impr ..read more

This week we are joined by Dr. Lea-Cathrin Dohme from Cardiff Metropolitan University. With Dr. Dohme we discuss the development of Psychological Skills and Characteristics in young athletes. The conversation touches on the distinction between skills and characteristics, identifying athlete needs, roles and expectations for coaches, and the impact we can have as coaches. The Coach’s Road Podcast is proud to be presented by CoachTools, a tool to improve coaching and power your club’s philosophy! If you are interested in using CoachTools go to www.coachtools.net and fill out the “Start Free Tria ..read more