What needs to change in the field? What needs to change is greater emphasis on credentialing. I’d like to see the ICF core competencies be the gold standard for coaching. I’d like to see consumers be more educated on what good coaching should look like.
What do you anticipate the world of coaching will look like 13 years from now? As for 13 years from now….I would hope that the emphasis on the quality of coaching is a given. I would hope that organizations can truly partner with coaches to create their futures. I would hope that executive coaches as individuals and as an industry will be able to point to “the beneficial impact” that each of us has had on the world.
Klaus Zepuntke
What has stayed the same in the field of organizational coaching over the past 13 years? The coaching issue that I see continuously coming up is the need for improvement of communication in general from a broad level into the organization. I am repeatedly dealing with this critical issue. This applies still today.
Clarity is still an absolute necessity and is still needed in coaching and always will be. If we as (executive) coaches approach our clients with a deep respect for their humanness and reflect with them the impact of the Three Marriages Self – Work – Partner on being a leader that people want to follow we achieve better results. What we also need is to work with them on self-knowledge which I perceive underdeveloped in many.
As I mentioned in the 2003 presentation, whenever I have the initial conversation with a client, I find out who they are. Is it the executive in his or her role as an executive or is it the individual hiding behind the role? This still holds true. I not only work on the executive level, but I also work on various other levels in the same organization either on a coaching level or I’m facilitating leadership programs. That enables me to gain a lot of knowledge about the organization from different perspectives.
I still don’t believe in rigid 50 or 60 minute time slots. My clients still don’t seem to have a problem booking a three-hour time slot. Furthermore, back in 2003, Bill Bergquist and I both noted that at times we take a walk with our coaching clients. This is still the case for me.
What has changed in the field over the past 13 years? What has changed is that many leaders/top executives need to talk about what they call Work-Life Balance. I developed a counter approach which I call Work-Life Integration – or The Secret of The Three Marriages. Inspired by David Whyte’s book, The Three Marriages, I developed a coaching model that puts various aspects of life into perspective and that actually helps people to implement radical changes in their perception of what life is.
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