The investment you make in a coaching session or in your coaching process, depends on your goal and some additional factors. From my perspective the main factors are:

Coach Training and certifications: it is important that your coach has a good and solid training. In terms of time, I would say that six to twelve months continuous training is a good starting point. Additionally, a coach associated to an national or international federation will often guarantee a certain level of professionalism and adherence to a set of standards.

Professional experience relevant to your goal. If you are looking into transitioning to a new role at work, you ideally should look for a coach that additionally, has industry experience and has held minimum amount of eight to ten years in positions of responsibility.

Coaching specialty: depending on the type of coaching you require, the coach will have a specific profile. If your goal is towards a life coaching issue, your investment will typically be lower than a goal towards an executive coaching issue.

In my opinion, the relevant question is not about how much does it cost. It is about how do you think coaching is going to help you. It is about whether you are ready for your coaching journey. It is about finding a coach that fulfills the requirements that your goal needs. It is about whether you think that your coach is going to help you close the gap from where you are to where you want to be. When all of it is clear to you, ask yourself if your coaching sessions is a “cost” or an “investment in yourself”?

In my opinion, a reasonable estimated cost for an hour of coaching would start at 165 pounds per hour.

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Top 3 questions every coachee should ask themselves before starting a Coaching process.

What is my goal? If asking yourself this question seems difficult to answer, start by asking yourself: what do I want to change? What am I not happy about? What is it that I have tried to change but do not seem to get around it? You can have one or more goals within the personal or your professional life.

What do I expect from my coaching process? How do you think Coaching can help you achieve your goals?

Am I ready for a change? A Coaching process can be considered a change or transformation process and as such, implies expanding your awareness, making decisions and taking actions as well as sustaining those changes over time.

If you have asked yourself these three questions and would like to talk to a coach, please feel free to contact me for a complimentary 30 minutes session.

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Out of curiosity, I have personally searched what is coaching via a search engine in the internet and found more than 2 billion results!!! Quite a few of them are from various coaching associations; some others from fellow coaches, who offer their services; etc.

Although I can relate in more than one way with some of the definitions that I have read, for me the most important definition, is the one from my clients. For them, Coaching is:

a reflective process in which the Coach supports them to close the gap between where they are and where they want to be

Coaching only adds value when it really helps the clients. Since my main goal is to serve my clients in the best possible way, this definition is surely the one that matters the most to me.

In case you are curious, here is some jargon that it is often used when reading about Coaching:

Coachee is another term that defines the client of a coaching process.

A client of a coaching process can be an individual or an organisation. Typically, when organisations finance the coaching processes of their employes, in coaching language the organisation becomes the Sponsor. The team or the person that receives the coaching remains the client or coachee.

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