Plan ahead when choosing a Coach

The search for coaches is fraught with difficulty unless you plan your appraoch properly. Firstly, know what you want - what is Coaching what do I want from Coaching?. Ask yourself these questions-

1. Do I want a primarily facilitation approach to develop solutions, new thinking/mental performance skills, new learning skills?
2. Do I care what coaching disciplines the coach comes from?
3. Have I defined the scope of coaching?
4. Do I care to contol expenses or not?
5. Do I need an initiation session - should this be by telephone?
6. Do I have the will and psychological resources needed to make significant change?
7. Where do we want the coaching to take place?
8. Do I set behavioural/performance measures on the coachee- indeed on the Coach

If you can answer these questions definitively then you are probably already ahead of the consideration  game. Beware though of many blue-chip consultancy suppliers you know when specialist consultants are suddenly ‘rebranded’ as coaches – you may not get coaching but will pay the highest prices for the priviledge.

Remember, Coaching is only a start or a facilitation process to real change - Real and long term change must come from the coachee.

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