My reasearch paper for ICA has been turned in and evaluated.
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.
Hi Norman, I was really interested to read your paper. I provide a tool that lets coaches coach their clients online, and although I have used it myself and have a gut feeling for how beneficial it can be, it was really interesting to read your paper looking at some of the research. In fact, would you be happy for me to add this post to my blog – with a credit to you of course?
I was particularly interested in your comments about being aware of how your niche and client group could be affected due to the social groups likely to be comfortable using the internet for coaching. What I have found is that online coaching allows clients to access my services that might not have been able to afford to, as its’ faster for me to respond online once a week than hold a telephone call, meaning I can provide a lower-priced coaching service. Do you coach online yourself?
By: Nicola Bird on 10/07/2009
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