What are the competencies of effective coaches?

What is it about?

Effectiveness of a coach is determined by their impact on clients in desired ways. The competencies of coaches that produce client behavior change are often touted from opinion surveys. These have at best, 50% relevance and can be misleading and waste resources and time in training and certifying who is likely an effective coach. this is the first of two studies to provide research based evidence of the characteristics of effective coaches.

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Why is it important?

Anyone wishing to e a coach goes through varying degrees of training. In theses days, hiring organizations want some assurance of quality so they turn to certifying associations. Sadly, to date, all training and all certifying groups use opinion-survey based competency models. Prior research on managers has shown that 50% or more of the opinion survey based competencies are irrelevant or opposite to those behavior desired in effective coaches. That means that a great deal of time, energy and money is wasted on current training and certification.