Team & Leader Performance via Harmonized Relationships
This article complements the articles:
Professional coaches work from who they are.
This article completes the article: Coaching & Quality
LinkedIn profiles are full of terms describing the skills of Coaches, and this is good news: the profession works to ensure that its members, working according to the rules of the art, are recognizable.
However, the terms used do not always mean the same thing, according to the source. Here are synoptic illustrations to find your way around quickly.
A previous article took stock of the choice of coach, from the point of view of the beneficiary of the coaching. Here, we wonder about the choice of coach, from the point of view of the buyer of coaching.
The buyer is for example a human resources manager, a department/company director who has the related budget, a training manager, who builds a training course, including coaching.
Faced with an identified coaching need, how to choose the coach(s)? So that their service corresponds to the needs of the company?
To take a parallel, when you buy a yogurt, you expect a product of standardized composition and that has been kept in compliance with the cold chain. What about coaching?
This question comes up regularly, both on social networks and in discussions in companies or networks.
And that's an essential question!
This decision-making has a stake, that of the benefits that the coachee will be able to obtain from his commitment to a coaching course. The benefits of coaching are also spread throughout the company, in particular thanks to a coaching phasing, the rule of the art of the profession.
Several approaches of choice can be considered, as well as their combinations.
When you buy a yogurt, it seems normal to have a guarantee as to its freshness, the continuity of the cold chain and its composition. Well, this could be a metaphor for a coaching purchase!
In France, official professional bodies certify professional coaches independently (without also being training organisations): ICF and EMCC.
The certification aims to assess:
| Certification renewed every 3 years ICF, 5 years EMCC | ICF-ACC Associate Certified Coach | ICF-PCC Professional Certified Coach | ICF-MCC Master Certified Coach |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stages of expertise | exercise start coaches | confirmed coaches | expert coaches |
| 35,000 ICF professional coaches in 2021, including 800 in France | 60% | 40% | 0.4% |
| hours of coaching training required | > 60 | > 125 | > 200 |
| hours of coaching practice required | >100 | > 500 | > 2500 |
Trust your intuition too. The relationship of trust is essential to the coaching process. Do a first session or a discovery interview and then determine yourself for a commitment in a coaching course.
A coach who is recommended to you by your network or who can provide coaching references from former clients.
