Coaching Competencies
As mentioned earlier, people who become leadership coaches do not need to have experience as organizational leaders. Most have been in the helping, consulting, or human resource professions. Experience in formal leadership roles can be very useful, especially as a credibility boost when clients are interviewing prospective coaches, but it is not necessary in learning to become an effective coach to leaders. In fact, coaches who do have significant leadership experience risk over-relying on it in coaching and inadvertently shifting into consulting.
Although leadership experience is not required, there are many competencies and character traits that are legitimately important to assess before embarking on a journey to become ...
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