By Liz Hall
Buyers, sponsors and providers of executive coaching now have a comprehensive guide to help them define, articulate, purchase and deliver high-calibre interventions in organisations.
(FCC), a multi-stakeholder group comprising volunteers from corporates, professional bodies, academia, research bodies and Coaching at Work, has produced a guidance document setting out definitions, principles and practices for professional executive coaching in organisations.
The document, Framework for Professional Executive Coaching in Organisational Settings, seeks to define the boundaries of professional coaching in organisational settings, and to support internal coaching sponsors and buyers, and internal coaches and external coaches to identify boundaries and best practice, among others.
The document is the result of work over a number of years from volunteers from organisations including Association for Coaching;
Association for Professional Executive Coaching and Supervision; Association of Coaching Supervisors; British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy Coaching; Civil Service Learning; Coaching at Work; European Mentoring & Coaching Council; GSK; Oxford Brookes University International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies; University of Greenwich; International Coach Federation; John Lewis Partnership; KPMG; News UK; PwC and Ridler & co.
More recent organisations represented include: the Association of Integrative Coach-Therapist Professionals and the International Society for Coaching Psychology.
The document isn’t intended to replace what’s already in place within accrediting bodies in terms of ethical guidelines and codes of conduct, for example, and it’s expected that the document will be updated.
FCC is facilitated by Coaching at Work and was launched in April 2015 with the aim of collaborating to raise the bar and shape the future of the coaching profession.
At the Coaching at Work conference on 5 July, PwC’s Maria Symeon, GSK’s Sally Bonneywell, UK ICF’s Joy Harcup and Coaching at Work’s Liz Hall will lead a panel discussion exploring the professionalisation of coaching in the wider business context, sharing some of the thinking behind the FCC guidance document, and inviting thoughts on what next for the profession.
- For more information and to see the document, go here:
- www.futureofcoaching.org