MORE LOW QUALITY COACHING This time on Feedback

In the Meta-Coach Reflection (#49) I mentioned a coaching book written by a person who presents herself as a “master” coach and a board member of the ICF which included a coaching conversation with a client. While it was presented as high level coaching, in the Meta-Coaching system, that coach would not have even reached the minimum for ACMC competency, let alone anything representing quality coaching or expertise.

Here is more from the same book which represents some basic misunderstandings that are current in the field of Coaching. Actually it is worse than that. As you can see from the quotations that follow, I would say that the author who presents herself as a “master” coach does not understand what feedback is, let alone is able to give back feedback, to say nothing about high quality feedback. The following quotations come from Group Coaching: a Comprehensive Blueprint (2011) by Genger Cokerham.