Coaches world-wide have a stake in understanding and continuing to expand the theoretical foundations and the practical effectiveness of their profession.
ICCO research projects continuously invite the involvement of experienced coaches of all backgrounds to work with clients and coach trainers and academics, to enhance the success-rate of coaching interventions in organizations.
Contact ICCO if you wish to participate, with your client organization, in critical research on the effectiveness of coaching interventions.
Research takes time. ICCO is therefore also a fulcrum of resources: an exchange of current practices and their critical analysis, to accelerate and facilitate learning.
Contact ICCO if you wish to participate in pooling and publishing models, solutions or other resource material that would serve the profession as a whole.
Internal and external coaches collaborate through ICCO to perfect their complementary approaches to the organizational client. Research and best practice sharing is designed to ascertain how internal and external coaches are used most effectively and most efficiently.
Internal and external coaches are ideally utilized in tandem, under common foundational conditions:
- Professional commitment to the client.
- Part of an integrated organizational approach to management and executive development.
- In strategic interventions based on organizational objectives and outcomes.
- A system approach to professional development.
Internal and external coaches handle distinct challenges regarding:
- Confidentiality
- Neutrality
- Performance measurement
- Involvement in the manager’s business context
- Full-time / part-time
ICCO helps Internal Coaches:
- further their coach education
- develop a larger perspective on the profession of coaching as a career
- interact with other internal coaches within an international business and non-profit network
- stay current on the leading edge practices of the best in class
- learn to measure their successes
- hear from and interact first hand with organizational decision makers
- participate in research projects with various participants in the coaching industry
- pool and exchange resources with the best in the profession
- develop a reputation as an actively engaged coaching professional
ICCO helps External Coaches:
- expand their theoretical and practical education
- hear from and interact first hand with organizational decision makers
- create a presentation portfolio that truly reflects their accomplishments
- interact with the best practitioners in the business
- learn to measure success
- participate in research projects with diverse representatives of the coaching industry
- pool and exchange resources with the best in the profession
- gain visibility as a coaching leader
