Businesses find it hard to identify fit-for-purpose coaches
Senior talent professionals find identifying external executive coaches with the right mix of skills and experience a frustrating experience.
This was one of the key findings of a study by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) UK and the Institute of Business Consulting (IBC).
Coaches need to explain and distinguish themselves with greater precision and subtlety and buyers need to show greater finesse in drawing up person specifications for coaches and in their approach to coach selection and recruitment, says the report, External executive coaching: a joint study of sponsors´...
Working in both the public and private sector as an Executive Coach I have encountered a variety of ways of being selected. The worst was in the private sector where an experienced coach interviewed me without me knowing it was an interview and proceded to make assumptions about me as a coach based on a few examples of experience. As an Executive Coach I encouter many different scenarios and could be ‘boxed’ differently for each. My specialism is being an Executive Coach and not a specific field within that. This broad approach and ability to be flexible in my approach is crucial for the successful achievement of both the coachee’s and organsiational client’s goals. If we become too ‘boxed’ this flexibility of approach may be lost which I feel would be very detrimental to the success of coaching.