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Category Archives: Coaching Profession
Do Coaches Really Need Insurance?
As someone who was burgled, losing all my personal jewellery accumulated in the form of presents and heirlooms over many years, it was a relief to have a household contents insurance policy. No one could replace the sentimental value of the items but at least there was some recompense. This may be a personal experience…
Becoming a Self-Employed Coach
Moving from a part-time coaching practice to full time self-employed status is a big move. The first place to start is by working out how many clients you have and how many you are turning away each month. This tells you that providing referrals stay the same, how long it would take you to reach…
Coaching into Retirement
Here’s a question I received from a fellow coach. I hope you find it, and my reply, useful. I have been a coach for about twenty years, long before coaching became popular. I had been a manager who was introduced to coaching and then set about undertaking courses before finally became a self-employed executive coach….
Business Coaching Has Changed Beyond Recognition
2012 saw the 10th anniversary of the Association for Coaching, not just a celebration of the Association, but a celebration for coaching over the last decade. Coaching has changed considerably since it first started to emerge commercially in the 1970’s. Back then, most people had known coaching only in a sports context, but gradually the…
What is the Best Way of Working with Other Coaches?
Here’s a question I heard from a coach recently during a Supervision Meeting: I set up a part-time coaching practice about a year ago which is going well. I negotiated with my current employer to work 3 days a week which has helped me build my coaching business. During the past six months I have…
How to Handle Split Loyalties as a Coach
I received this question from an Executive Coach recently: I am coaching a CIO (Chief Information Officer) and he told me he is biding his time before he leaves the organization. The annual bonuses come out in February and he is staying until then to ensure he gets his. I feel uncomfortable knowing that he…
Why You Might Want to Consider Developing a Coaching Niche
If you consider coaching to be a relatively new offering in relation to other disciplines then it is not surprising that as a coach you will find, after time, that there are specific subjects that clients keep presenting either as a main issue or as part of a broader need. Coaching research is still in…
Choosing a Professional Body to Join
There are fundamentally four coaching bodies in the UK for you to consider apart from the professional body for psychologists who are also coaches known as the Special Group in Coaching Psychology aimed at bringing together psychologists who offer coaching via the growing field of coaching psychology. The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy(BACP) has recently set…
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