Comments on: Coaching http://caribhrforum.com/wordpress/2008/03/29/coaching-caribbean2/ Human Resource Practitioners in the Caribbean, Together Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:23:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Felicia Linch http://caribhrforum.com/wordpress/2008/03/29/coaching-caribbean2/#comment-1109 Felicia Linch Thu, 15 May 2008 21:00:04 +0000 http://caribhrforum.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-1109 Marco, thyanks for your contribution. It's interesting what you say about the Pyschcological approach/link with Coaching. I guess my question is that if this is the evolution of Coaching, despite certification now becoming the norm in the US and the U.K. is that enough as this type of certification is not based/grounded in Psychology. Do you think having that knowledge/background is a must (i.e. its dangerous if one doesn't have it) or just desireable. Kind Regards Felicia Marco,

thyanks for your contribution. It’s interesting what you say about the Pyschcological approach/link with Coaching. I guess my question is that if this is the evolution of Coaching, despite certification now becoming the norm in the US and the U.K. is that enough as this type of certification is not based/grounded in Psychology. Do you think having that knowledge/background is a must (i.e. its dangerous if one doesn’t have it) or just desireable.

Kind Regards

Felicia

]]> By: marco nozicka http://caribhrforum.com/wordpress/2008/03/29/coaching-caribbean2/#comment-1108 marco nozicka Tue, 13 May 2008 15:21:26 +0000 http://caribhrforum.com/wordpress/?p=65#comment-1108 I enjoyed the view shared on Coaching and the thoughts expressed on what it was and is evolving towards. Now that I have been back in the US for a year, after ten years in the Caribbean I have done a bit of my own research on the topic. After years of providing Execuitve and Life Coaching, it has evolved into a number of specialties but most with the same basic framework and belief system. After 16 years as a Psychotherapist with an eccletic style of supporting personal growth in others, we can see that Coaching today is very similar to some of the Structural Strategic Methods of Family Treatment often associated with the Italian model of brief, behavioral-solution orientation, developed decades ago. Coaching has become a profitable profession and has evolved to merit national and intenational certification via organizations such as the International Coaching Federation which has very stringent requirements, and, justifiably so. My experience in the Caribbean tells me that Coaching has much potential and is perhaps where Employee Assistance Programs were some ten years ago and which have become gradually more acceptable, although, in my view, under promoted and still under utilized in the Region. (Marco Nozicka, LCSW, President,The PeopleWorks Group, Inc.) I enjoyed the view shared on Coaching and the thoughts expressed on what it was and is evolving towards. Now that I have been back in the US for a year, after ten years in the Caribbean I have done a bit of my own research on the topic. After years of providing Execuitve and Life Coaching, it has evolved into a number of specialties but most with the same basic framework and belief system. After 16 years as a Psychotherapist with an eccletic style of supporting personal growth in others, we can see that Coaching today is very similar to some of the Structural Strategic Methods of Family Treatment often associated with the Italian model of brief, behavioral-solution orientation, developed decades ago. Coaching has become a profitable profession and has evolved to merit national and intenational certification via organizations such as the International Coaching Federation which has very stringent requirements, and, justifiably so. My experience in the Caribbean tells me that Coaching has much potential and is perhaps where Employee Assistance Programs were some ten years ago and which have become gradually more acceptable, although, in my view, under promoted and still under utilized in the Region. (Marco Nozicka, LCSW, President,The PeopleWorks Group, Inc.)

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