It’s called status inflation and it starts when kids are in their early teens (or before). They want to appear just that bit more mature than they are. You would think adult coaches would have grown out of this instinct. But we seem the same phenomenon in relation to executive coaching. It seems that any coach, whatever their experience or capability tags the word executive in front of their descriptor. As a result, the term executive coach has been steadily devalued in recent years.
Related Programmes
-
How to overcome executive stress – the secret lies in reconnection
Coaches can support executives in recognising what parts of their emotional self they have lost and in reconnecting with them.
-
Professional coach or professional mentor?
The work of the Coach Maturity Research Group demonstrates conclusively that the more mature coaches become in their practice, the more they blend coaching and mentoring.
-
The addictive power of AI
One of the results of this is that the more we use AI, the more we may unconsciously be dumbing ourselves down.
-
The perils of the passive coachee
The word spiritual keeps cropping up in relational to coaching, but typically with very vague explanation.
Related Courses
-
Programme Manager Mentoring and Coaching Accreditation
Course overview The purpose of this programme is to equip Mentoring Programme Managers with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to...
-
Work Life Balance
How to Help your coaching clients and colleagues achieve work-life balance Course overview Hybrid working, AI-driven innovation in work practices...
-
Advanced Executive Coaching and Mentoring
Course overview Whereas most coach training tends to take a relatively simplistic perspective on the role, functions and skills of...
-
Group Supervision from a Complex Systems Perspective
Course overview The future of executive coaching will demand coaches to have at least the same level of systemic thinking as...