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Thinking about Investing in Coach Development

Coach Education is hard. Accessing the data about what to coach and how to coach it is difficult. There is technical data, which is generally the entry point. There is data about systems, tactics and drills. There is data related to science and medicine. There is data related to how to teach and how people learn. There is data related to the psychosocial development of the human beings that a coach is coaching. Some coaches spend their life collecting this data. That is a noble pursuit and it makes you a good educator about coaching, not a good coach. In organisations the role of most Coach Education frameworks is to turn this Data into Information. The DIKW paradigm describes this well. ( Photo Credit ) Coach Development is REALLY hard. Like, super super hard. Having collected all this information as part of the education process, coaches need to understand the meaning of this contextual information. Organisations can help support this development but coaches also have to want to do i

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