Becoming a one-to-one Mentor Coach
- Are you driven to professionalise the coaching industry?
- Are you motivated to share what you have learned with other coaches about what makes great coaching?
- Do you see a need for coaches around you to sharpen their edge?
- Perhaps you relish the idea of learning more yourself by mentor coaching others?
- Or maybe you are looking to develop your business and add an additional revenue stream?
Mentor coaching will enable you to do all of these things.
Mentor coaching is ‘observed coaching with feedback against a set of competencies, that sharpens the coach’s all-round presence’ (Norman, 2018). As the Mentor Coach, we are enabling coaches to see their blind spots (Eckstein, 1969) and sharpen their coaching edge that has become dulled over time. It’s important to support and challenge coaches to re-sharpen their edge, repeatedly, so that they can be the best coach they can be for their thinkers. This will increase the reputation of the coaching industry, as more thinkers experience great coaching that moves them forward and enables them to sustain change.
Who is the mentor coaching training for?
- Experienced coaches who are looking to become Mentor Coaches
- Coaches looking to sharpen their skills as a coach, as you will experience mentor coaching as part of the programme
- We will be using the ICF competencies as the benchmark, but you can be aligned with any coaching body with a coaching code of ethics
I have been a practicing coach for over 10 years and am accredited as a PCC with the ICF. So, I hesitated as to whether ‘sharpening my skills was something that would benefit me most as I reflected on my gaps last year. Was I better investing in team coaching or a coaching supervision qualification? I felt a little stuck and found coaching sessions were unstructured and at times unfocused.
I’ve completed several coach-specific development programmes in the past and with an array of different coaching organisations. So, I knew it wasn’t because I was incompetent – had I become complacent, perhaps unconsciously (now consciously) incompetent?
After taking this to my coach and my supervisor and speaking with several other coaches, I came across Clare Norman Coaching Associates. I purchased Clare’s Coach Mentoring book (Mentor Coaching a Practical Guide), and the rest is history. I liked the way she explained the difference between Coach Mentoring and other approaches, and I was hooked. I hoped the Coach Mentoring programme would bring me clarity, confidence, direction, and renewed enthusiasm for coaching (not a lot then really). It didn’t disappoint.
Clare’s teaching is simple, yet thorough and considered, and I loved the mix of experiential practice, education, and shared examples, in the workshop. I had not realised how powerful examples are. They help highlight what Clare calls ‘sharpening our skills as coaches’ so I can now see how the ICF core competencies create a robust container for the coaching process to unfold, and I’m starting to embody them in my practise.
Many people promise to give step-by-step guidance but still leave you wondering what to do next. Clare’s Coach Mentoring offering is different.
At the end of the workshop, I knew what to do. I have created my own process that I continually review and tweak with the help of my supervisor and coach and it now doesn’t feel like a daunting task that I can’t quite grasp. I clearly contract and re-contract focusing on a particular competency within each coaching session (for me to then review at a later date). It has transformed how I coach and my practise as a result. - Amanda Livermore
What are the learning outcomes for this training?
Knowledge outcomes:
- Explain the differences between mentor coaching and supervision
- Explain the meaning of the core competencies in-depth and how they show up in practice
- Articulate the difference between ACC, PCC and MCC level coaching for each competency
Skills outcomes:
- Practice one-to-one mentor coaching virtually
- Creating a safe environment
- Managing the feedback process using the PCC/MCC markers
- Enabling feedback to be heard
Attitudinal outcomes:
- Be open to receiving feedback about your coaching and your mentor coaching
- Embody a coaching mindset
- Incorporate your code of ethics in your mentor coaching practice
How does the mentor coaching training work?
Masterclasses may combine 2 groups of up to 6 people each. Workshops will be a maximum of 6 people in each group.
Design principles:
- Keep to the essentials
- Flipped learning
- Space the learning
- Build-in retrieval for sustainable change
- Practice with feedback
- Make it effortful with an emotional investment
- Make it active and focused – no long drawn out lectures!
- Make it relevant for the learners’ stage of development
Pre-requisites for mentor coaching training:
- 300 hours of coaching experience
- ACC (renewed) or PCC for ICF mentor coaching
- Supervisor and/or mentor coach reference
- Commitment to 3 mentor coaching hours per year on your own coaching
- Commitment to 3 supervision hours per year on your mentor coaching
- 2 people to mentor coach from months 5-8
- Abide by a coaching code of ethics
Continuous Coach Education Units
You will receive 36 CCEs (28 Core Competency and 8 Resource Development) for mentor coaching training, for which you will need to complete all live training, mentor coach 2 people and dedicate 11 hours to self-study and reflection.
