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Defining Coaching

• Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential
• Client-driven
• Focuses: setting goals, creating outcomes, managing personal change

The Coach’s Role

• Discover, clarify and align with what the client wants to achieve
• Encourage client self-discovery
• Elicit client-generated solutions and strategies
• Hold the client responsible and accountable

What Coaching Isn’t

• Therapy
• Consulting
• Mentoring
• Training
• Athletic Development

Typical Reasons

• Optimize individual/team work performance (43%)
• Improve communication skills (39%)
• Increase productivity (38%)
• Expand career opportunities (35%)
• Increase self-esteem/self-confidence (34%)
• Manage work/life balance (34%)
• Improve business management (32%)

Types of Coaching

• Numerous disciplines and niches;
• lots of overlap
• Main specialties (according to coaches) cover broad spectrum*
• Leadership (25%)
• Executive (18%)
• Business/organizations (16%)
• Life vision and enhancement (13%)
• Overlap between personal and business coaching

Investment

• Financial (average hourly fee/client type)*
  • Executive: $340 USD
  • Business owner/entrepreneur: $240 USD
  • Manager: $230 USS
  • Team leader: $170 USD
  • Staff member: $130 USD
  • Personal client: $120 USD
• Time/energy
  • Varied appointment and engagement lengths
  • Readiness to commit to making real changes

• ICF Definition of Mentor Coaching: Mentor coaching is a collaborative learning process through which coaches receive feedback based on observed or recorded sessions to support them in further developing their unique coaching style and coaching skills in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies. (Oct 2024).

• Mentor Coaches provide professional assistance in achieving and demonstrating the levels of coaching competency demanded by the desired credential level sought by a mentee.

• Mentor Coaching means an applicant (mentee) being coached on their coaching skills rather than coaching on practice building, life balance, or other topics unrelated to the development of an applicant’s coaching skill.

• Mentor coaching serves several important functions for ICF coaches. Mentor coaching is a requirement for the achievement of ICF credentials and is an important element of a coach’s education:

  • Mentor coaching functions to help develop the coach’s skills to meet the professional standards required across levels of coaching practice.
  • Mentor coaching helps develop the coach’s competence and capabilities.
  • Mentor coaching serves to develop a coach’s unique coaching style and approach.
  • Mentor Coaching should take place over an extended time (three-month minimum) in a cycle that allows for listening and feedback from the Mentor Coach while also allowing reflection and practice on the part of the individual being mentored.

There is symbiotic relationship between coaching supervision and mentor coaching. Coaching supervision primarily focuses on the “self” of the coach, the quality and impact of their work, and how they relate to broader contexts and systems. Mentor coaching focuses more on the skill development of the coach.  However, the skills of the coach and how they are used cannot be separated from the self of the coach and their way of being in their work and in the world.

ICF Definition of Mentor Coaching​

​Mentor coaching is a collaborative learning process through which coaches receive feedback based on observed or recorded sessions to support them in further developing their unique coaching style and coaching skills in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.    

ICF Definition of Coaching Supervision

​Coaching supervision is a dynamic and reflective process of collaboration, guidance and support through which coaches develop their personal, professional, and ethical capacity and maturity.