I was checking through my google alerts for ‘online coaching’, as you do, and I stumbled across this great paper written by Norma Viss (Coaching With An Accent).
Norman has asked the question: “Is online coaching real coaching?” by drawing on research and evidence in the clinical field to help draw the comparison and it certainly makes an interesting read.
On a personal note, when people ask what I do at a party, unlike Norman below, I NEVER say ‘I’m an online coach’, I simply tell them about the solutions I can offer, so maybe that’s where Norman’s facing some of his resistance too!
Anyway – here’s his post and paper, let me know what you think below and if you want to join a free webinar to find out how online coaching could be used in your business, click here.
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The topic for the paper, Is online coaching real coaching?, is drawn from my experience of finding it hard to convince people that online coaching can really be effective. When you explain to someone at a party that you do online coaching, the reaction you often get is equivalent to having said you sell snake oil and arsenic.
I was interested in finding out if there is any scientific, empirical evidence that online coaching really is effective. My search lead me to a study of online psychotherapy models, which do have good scientific reasearch related to them.
That has enabled me to rebut the quacksalver accusation with concrete evidence.
If you would like to read the paper, click here.