CONSULTING TO COACH

Before you can coach, you have to consult. That’s what you do when you do an Introductory Session for a potential coaching client—you consult. Because this is a crucially important part of coaching, it is described in the ACMC manual in several places.

Consulting—what does this involve? How do you do it? What does this mean for you as a coach? What this mostly involves is providing expert knowledge about coaching so that the potential client fully understands what coaching is and what one is getting himself into! A consultant, by definition, is someone who has expert knowledge about something and who sells that information. Accordingly, people consult with a consultant to get the expert knowledge that they want without having to become an expert oneself. I have consulted with medical experts to get medical advice, with tax consultants to get tax advice because while I needed some expert knowledge, I did not want to become an expert in either of those fields.