People development business Inspiring Potential has launched 24/7 phone coaching for busy executives.
The service, Inspiring Potential Now!, is staffed all year round by International Coach Federation accredited coaches from all over the world, who have director-level corporate experience. Personal coaching sessions can be booked and paid for online by credit card. Businesses can book a series of sessions up front, issuing credits to employees who can then book sessions at their convenience.
The broad spectrum of services includes executive coaching, career development coaching, leadership and management development coaching.
According to Inspiring Potential, the coaching is ideal for people who want to solve immediate challenges. However, David Clutterbuck, practice leader Clutterbuck Associates, said that those using phone coaching should not set their expectations too high. It has “many of the handicaps of both face to face and email coaching but few of the advantages of either”, and it requires “very, very good coaches to deliver similar value”.
Clutterbuck, who has compared coaching methodologies in Virtual Coach, Virtual Mentor, IAP, due 2010, said: “I am sceptical that volume coaching by phone can provide requisite quality beyond very basic skills coaching and perhaps some performance coaching.
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