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Reality Coach® Teleclass now online

The weekly teleclass component of the Reality Coach credential is now recorded and available online at http://podcast.RealityCoaching.info or http://teleclass.RealityCoaching.info.  It is also streamed in directly at the main Reality Coaching site (in the feeds area).  So you now never have to worry about missing a call.

Reality Coaching -- an approach to business coaching / life coaching using an established model -- has an entire learning website avaiable for coaches who want to move beyond a constellation of disperate techniques or gut feelings to a model for growth and change used by thousands of "change agents" -- counselors, social workers, personal coaches, marriage and family therapists -- world wide.

You can participate in any number of ways -- from online blogging as you read texts to publishing papers that show the power of Reality Coaching -- to the weekly teleclass -- to live role plays via conference calls.  You keep track of your own progress and success via your own personal website / e-portfolio that is assigned and created for you at http://RealityCoaching.info (registered participants only).

One final note, listening to a recording of a Reality Coaching teleclass does not count as meeting one of the requirements toward the Reality Coach Credential (which is participating in the teleclass).

Coaching is controversial

Coaching is controversial. Not because getting coaching will have a significant impact on your life. It will.

Coaching is controversial because coaching as a service is not standardized and no universal coaching regulatory standard exists.

As a result, anyone -- and I mean anyone -- can call themselves a coach and take on clients.

According to Rey Carr, of the Canadian group Peer Resources, there are more than 65 distinct coaching credentials. The systems used to grant these credentials vary. Some are competency-based, some require hours of training, others require supervision by someone who already has the credential, some rely on self-assessment, some can be obtained without ever coaching a client; and some are blatantly based on simply proclaiming oneself a coach. The self-reported largest of these credentialing systems: the International Coach Federation, the International Association of Coaching and the European Coaching Institute all have different requirements for accreditation.

These self-appointed accreditation bodies and the liberal use of the terms 'certification' and 'credentialing' throughout the coaching industry only confuse the public.

While in theory certification protects the public, the current group of arbitrary designations create a profession with no integrity.

It’s little more than a marketing tool.

So what’s the coach to do? What‘s the consumer to do?

Prospective coaches: The best certification you can get is a college diploma. You need degrees in business or psychology. Ignore credential and certification programs, no matter how deceptive they may be with powerful words like universal registered coaching certification. If you attend a coach training program do so because of the content and skills offered and not because of the letters you get afterward.

Prospective clients: Ask about the credentials of a coach.  Ignore the alphabet soup of credentials after a person's name.  Do they have COLLEGE degrees in business or psychology?  If you wouldn't let a person with a college degree in philosophy and a certificate from the intergalactic council of dentistry go poking around you mouth, don't let a person without a business degree go poking around your business or a person without a psychology degree go poking around your life -- even if they list I.C.C. after their name because they have a certificate from the interplanetary coaching commission.

©2007 True Azimuth, LLC
Business Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Life Coaching

Coaching Case Study

Watch coach Scott Graham provide an overview of his coaching style using a personal coaching client.


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Models and road maps -- is your coach lost?

If you work with a coach, ask them what their model of human behavior and change is.

Do they respond by offering you some complicated graphic about the coaching dynamic, talking about techniques, skills or procedures or handing you some other mumbo-jumbo?

If you are a coach – you may be reading this and may have taken offense -- take a moment to articulate your model.  Post it under comments.  I want to read about it.

Coaching without a model is like driving a car without a road map.

You might be an expert at how to parallel park.  You might be an expert on how to change a tire.  But if you don’t have a road map, you will be lost the moment you drive outside the area you maintain in your head – your mental road map.  Most coaches who don’t have a model end up giving advice – based on what they know – directions, if you will, from their mental road map.

Most coaches operate without a road map -- they have no model.  Just an amalgamation of skills and "gut" instinct.

Working with a coach without a model is like getting into the passenger seat of that car and trusting that the person without the road map is going to get you to where you want to go!  Ever been a passenger with a driver who doesn't have a road map?  What was that like?

Gestalt Coaching, Adlerian Coaching, Coaching based on NLP and Reality Coaching® are methods of coaching based on an established model of human behavior.   They are they road maps to get you where you want to go.

©2007 True Azimuth, LLC
Business Coaching, Relationship Coaching, Life Coaching

About Coach Scott Graham

A short video to help you decide if you should work with me.


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