What is online coaching?
Coaching is one of many ways you can increase your personal and business effectiveness. Online coaching is done using the internet. It can be used to actively work through identified objectives such as your personal development plan, build your skills as a leader or support you in defining new decisions for your career.
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Some examples of how coaching can be used
* Personal and life coaching
* Performance coaching
* Leadership coaching
* Team coaching
* Career coaching
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Finding a good coach
There are strict codes of practice for coaches that are defined by any of the leading associations or Institutes.
* Coaches code
of ethics
* Supervision policy and quality of work
* Measuring the impact of the coaching sessions.
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Next steps
Try an on-line coaching taster session
* Contracting with your coach
* Fees for Strong Enterprises
* Training to be a coach.
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Coaching is a ‘collaboration’ between an individual seeking to increase their personal and business effectiveness with a coach who can provide a thinking environment supported by effective questions, interventions or observations. Online coaching is when the sessions are conducted on the internet. Coaching can be used to actively work through identified objectives such as a personal development plan, build a programme of new skills as a leader or make new decisions for career development.
Here are a some coaching formats and how they can be used:
Type of coaching |
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Some examples of how coaching can be used |
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| Personal and life coaching | is a more personal look at an individual’s holistic aims across many aspects of their life. |
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| Executive and corporate coaching | focuses on a member of a company board or in the senior management team. These sessions will require the coach to be able to understand and robustly facilitate thinking in strategic business issues in the context of personal development. |
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| Performance coaching | explores where an individual can improve on their achievements usually in line with their employer’s objectives. |
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| Leadership coaching | is a process that assists a leader in being effective, fair, decisive and strategic. A new leader can find this promotion somewhat isolating so checking decisions and talking though concepts can be empowering and progressive. |
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| Business coaching | is closely aligned to mentoring where the coach can ask incisive questions based on an understanding of the business environment. However they do not diagnose, direct or design solutions. |
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| Team coaching | is where the client is a group or team of people seeking to improve their performance, manage change, adapt or review their role in the organisation. |
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| Career coaching | creates time to review how to get the best from work. This can be enhancing progress, negotiating difficult opportunities or making a new start. |
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Finding a good coach
Finding a good coach is a personal thing. However there are some important considerations before you decide with whom you are going to work.
- There are many articles and reviews available on the internet introducing all types and aspects of coaching.
- It will be useful to clarify in your mind what you want to get from working with a coach.
- Make a call to at least three coaches who fit your requirements and demonstrate a professional competence. It is a good idea to have some questions ready. A professional coach will be able to answer them easily.
Ethics
There are some strict codes of practice for professional coaches. Check which accreditation they have and that they are up to date with their compliance. Examples include:
• International Coach Federation (ICF)
• Association of European Coaches (ECI)
Check which ethical code they follow.
Quality and supervision
Professional coaches will be working with many different people who are addressing important and sometimes stressful situations. In order to hold the quality of each of their client’s thinking separately, a professional coach will have regular supervision sessions or shadow consultancy with a qualified supervisor.
When reviewing your choice of coach check what sort of supervision process they are using.
Measuring the impact
Frequently there will be an objective to be achieved or a development process to progress.
Does the coach have a way to measure the coaching sessions that will suit your objectives?
Taster session
If you have satisfactory answers to your questions you can take the next step and ask for a free taster session. Typically the coach will suggest 15–30 minute session over the phone.
Contracting with your new coach
Once you have chosen your coach and the type of coaching you would like, the coach should take you though your contract. It is helpful to agree the following:
- A defined number of coaching sessions
- How the sessions are delivered for example:
• face to face meetings,
• using the telephone,
• using a webcam. - The coaching approach or model
- The fee
- The procedure should the sessions be changed in some way
- The process of completing the coaching contract
How much does it cost at Strong Enterprises?
At Strong Enterprises the fees for phone and webcam coaching include:
A free taster session of 30 minutes to evaluate the coaching model
A single session is £75 (including VAT)
For four sessions over a period of three months is £250 (including VAT)
For eight sessions over a period of six months is £400 (including VAT)
For more information please contact us
Further information on courses in coaching techniques run by Strong Enterprises
