What is the Coaching Landscape?
I have decided to devote some time here to share my experiences in coaching at the mastery level. It is time to scale up coaching to what it can truly be so that coaches, leaders and managers can know what is in store for them when they pursue coaching seriously.
Look at what Coaching is today; from a ‘desert land’ that I walked on 20 years ago to an ‘oasis’ is really ecstatic and breathtaking. It is fully recognised now that the final tipping point in high performance lies in Coaching. Both corporations and the private homes are embarking onto this as the way to create success and fulfillment for everyone.
The ‘supply’ side of coaching is also doing very well too. There are more certified coaches now and more organisations are investing in it to grow their leaders to develop their people. There are also more coaching schools today apart from Corporate Coach Academy that are offering learning opportunities to serious minded professionals who want to be certified coaches. And finally, ICF is now firmly rooted as THE Coaching Brand that all forward looking coaches should associate themselves with.
Thus, the time is now right to take coaches and Coaching to the next level of its growth. My new Coaching mission is to uplift the coaching skills of these coaches so that they can successfully make the transition from ordinary to mastery coaches so that they can do much more for people not only in overcoming their issues but attain life fulfillment with sustainability, at the same time .
What sets a Master Coach apart?
- The different methodology deployed by the 3 levels of coaches in working with their coachees. At the Associate level, the coach leads the coachee to the solution where they feel are the best for them; at the Professional level, the coach works alongside the coachee to find the best solution together; and at the Mastery level, the coachee takes the lead in the entire change journey, with the coach receding in the background.
- They dance more and work less with their coachees. They have the finesse and the natural flair to tune up for the dance that evokes their greatest inspiration to become so self empowered and self generative that naturally propel them to make their own discovery single-handedly.
- Master coaches are able to make their coachees self-generative because they can create the most ideal safe environment that is anchored on the highest trust, respect and compassion that bring out their best in the least threatening way.
- If coaches are known to ask questions, then Master Coaches ask lesser, even shorter and powerful ones too that can take the coachees deep down into the key places of their being that they have not been there before.
- If coaches are known to believe that their coachees can find their answers to their issues, then Master Coaches help them to appreciatively look at what is already working for them to find even better answers.
- And if coaches are known to help them achieve their goals, then Master Coaches help them to extend their learning and discovery far beyond to benefit other areas of their lives, which can be holistic and wholesome in living their lives to the fullest.
Indeed, the Master Coach is a maestro of coaching, the highest caliber of coaches in the world of Coaching. The Certified Master Coach (CMC) Program offers the avenue for forward looking coaches and people-leaders who want to scale up to the best they can ever be that will unleash their fullest coaching potentials. The next intake will be in May 2024.
See you at the top of Coaching!
Corporate Coach Academy is the largest generator of ICF Coaches in Malaysia. The Certified Master Coach Program is only offered once a year and leads towards an ICF-MCC if other ICF requirements are fulfilled.