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I'd suggest looking into the ICF (International Coaching Federation), and finding a coach who's accredited with them. They're really aware of the complexity of this - where they see the value of coaching as a tool, and know it's not a medical industry with the need for such high qualification time as eg. councellors or therapists, but that anyone calling themselves a coach means people do a lot of advice / self-help / general fluff without it being what they understand coaching to be. Getting accredited means having training, having certain number of logged hours doing coaching, recording sessions for assessment, passing an exam on ethics, limitations, confidentiality, methods, etc... In the ICF understanding of coaching, a coach doesn't need to be a domain expert (although domain familiarity helps), as the coach's job is to help the coachee (client) be the expert / get unstuck / manage themselves. No matter how good a business leader I am, I'll never know your company and the individuals involved as well as you do. But if I'm good at asking you questions that help you see where you're stuck and see things in a different perspective, you'll come up with better solutions than I ever will. If I give you good advice, you'll see me as a guru or authority, and not build your own answers. And if you need a mentor, or advice, then in coaching that would come up and we could talk through ways you could find that. (Disclaimer: I've completed an ICF accredited course, and am slowly working on my 100+ hours of coaching others and exams to be accredited). |