I had 'coaching fatigue'. I was feeling disillusioned. It seems as if everyone and anyone calls themselves a coach these days. Sports coach, business coach, managers, trainers, consultants, counsellors, psychologists, etc. And then at a coaching conference last week, I had the privilege to hear Vikki Brock ( www.vikkibrock.com ) talk about her research on the history of coaching. She gave insight about how coaching developed through a combination of different disciplines and practices, in different countries, gradually evolving to meet a need in the marketplace. It is a testament to how prevalent that need was, that coaching has risen to become such a widely-used term in our vocabulary in such a short space of time. Something Vikki said, reminded me of what brought me to coaching in the first place: "Coaching is not a set of skills and tools. It's a social phenomenon for the twenty first century and a catalyst to the next stage of human development." Imagine a pl...
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