This was a brief summary of a phone call I received “out of the blue” this week from an ex-colleague.
A very vividly formulated praise for our coaching team.
But also a harrowing message: people feel like they are stuck in life and are looking for an independent sparring partner to help them navigate through their feelings and thoughts.
However, these people are often at a loss. How can they find a coach? The spectrum ranges from dowsing rod coaching to NLP and systemic coaching. Yesterday I saw “mountain bike coaching”. How about that?
Here are a few thoughts on the search that I passed on to my ex-colleague:
- Choose a style: Our team’s work is based on systemic coaching – an approach that has received a lot of neuroscientific confirmation in recent years. Avoid esoteric approaches. Effective coaching is work, no wonder.
- Choose an organization and a certification: ICF(https://coachingfederation.org/) is, in our opinion, the most important executive/business/personal coach association. ICF requires demanding certifications at 3 levels: ACC (Associate), PCC (Professional) and MCC (Mentor). The coaches who work with us have all successfully completed at least the PCC training.
- Choose your coach – the organizations often have suitable search portals. But of course you can also search directly with us!
- Check the experience of your coach. The coaches in our team, for example, have all have at least 20 years of management experience – in addition to their coaching training
- Arrange a preliminary meeting with your potential coach – this preliminary meeting should usually be free of charge
- Expect a good coach to be worth the price. Don’t expect to find good coaching for 80 EUR/h from someone with years of experience in leadership and personal development
We wish all coach seekers success on their journey!