Research in coaching has demonstrated the need to learn by doing it. Seminars don’t work. Coaching is a skill set that requires one-on-one or small group work with considerable clinical supervision and feedback from someone with a great deal of experience.
Emotional Intelligence Coaching is demonstrating the effectiveness of 13-week/three month training course compared with two-day block training. The following study is instructive:
“Enhancing coaching skills and emotional intelligence through training” by Anthony M. Grant, Director, Coaching Psychology Unit, School of Psychology, University of Sydney Australia.
“Findings – Participation in the 13-week training course was associated with increases in both goal-focused coaching skills and emotional intelligence, whereas the two-day block intensive training was associated with increased goal-focused coaching skills, but not emotional intelligence. Further, the magnitude of the increase in goal-focused coaching skills was less for the two-day program than for the 13-week program”.
It is impossible to include clinical supervision in a two-day course. A three-month program can include an assessment of the coach as well as each coaching client followed by a post EQ-i-2.0 assessment.
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