" Quels sont vos conseils pour devenir coach ? ", telle était la question que me posait la semaine dernière une journaliste de France 5 Emploi. Le résumé de notre entretien qui a bien duré 45 minutes vient de paraître sur le site de France 5 emploi

Lire la synthèse de la journaliste
Rebondissez, devenez coach
Ne s'improvise pas coach qui veut. Voici des pistes et des conseils pour bien négocier votre réorientation

Mes commentaires
Si je reconnais des bribes de mes propos, j'ignore si l'association dans une même phrase de deux idées distinctes retranscrit réellement les idées essentielles que je voulais faire passer.

Je viens de lire la newsletter de The Coaching News (3 Janvier 2007) qui transcrit la réflexion d'experts (américains ?) du coaching et où je retrouve quasiment point par point ce que j'ai voulu expliquer à la journaliste.  Alors dans le doute, je vous en fait part :

Extraits
Je reprends ci-après quelques extraits en surlignant les points qui rejoignent ma propre analyse.

- Too few coaches are actually able to make a living as coaches. More coaches are leaving the field after finding that the reality of practice falls far below the promise expressed by coaching schools and others. While many new coaches realize that establishing a coaching business is essential to their practice, too few find that practice creation actually yields financial growth or stability. While data is not yet available, it may be that more coaches are now terminating their coaching practice than starting a practice.

- Niche development, while possibly providing more specialized emphasis for the application of coaching, appears instead to have trivialized coaching so that the term "coach" is being applied widely to a variety of societal issues or trends.

- Too many coaches are basing their revenue model on providing services to other coaches. Persuading novice coaches that the key to success is more training, becoming certified, marketing ability, or business skill, may be a form of exploitation of fears or vulnerability rather than a realistic appraisal of the field.

-The emphasis on certification contradicts the research on the key factors associated with choosing a coach. Several studies have shown that experience in the field as well as other criteria rank higher as factors for choosing a coach than whether a coach is certified or a member of a coach association.

- The majority of persons who provide coaching and have attained national or international reputations in their field as well as gaining significant financial rewards from coaching are neither certified as coaches nor are members of coaching associations. This is not the case with other helping professions.

- While these perceptions were discussed during the teleconference, not all participants believed that such trends indicated a dismal future or a doom and gloom scenario for coaching. Some participants believed that the trends indicated that the "cream was rising to the top" and that only the best and brightest were going forward in the field of coaching. Others believed that the struggle for coaching to define itself was a healthy trend that would lead to greater commitment and accountability.

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The Coaching News (3 Janvier 2007)