COACHING THE COACH TO COACH

When we train the Assist Team at ACMC to provide feedback and benchmarking, we are developing people for high quality supervision in Meta-Coaching. That’s because the whole point is to enable the person giving feedback and managing the coaching lab to coach the coach in his or her coaching session. For years now we have been devoting two full days to the Assist Team in terms of their supervision skills so that they can give quality feedback to the coach-in-training. We do that by conducting 8 to 10 coaching sessions and by practicing giving feedback.

It is coaching under supervision that makes all the difference in the world. Coaching and practicing coaching without supervision misses the very value and purpose of feedback. Almost every who attempts to reach competency level at ACMC level, PCMC level, and GTMC level who has been practicing but not under supervision has not succeeded. Conversely, those who have practiced with supervision have succeeded.