Creating a Coaching Persona

Coaching again, it seems driving instructors are being fed a diet of take my course, and with it we will give you an excellent lesson in how to be self righteous and rude. Today I find myself ashamed to have been a member of the Tri Coaching group on Facebook, they are pack hunters on the social network, and as with most packs find solace in their association with each other. Fortunately their membership represents a tiny group of instructors who appear to have bought an expensive course in bad manners.

I challenge everyone who was involved in that 'debate' to meet with me and repeat their comments to my face, because for me, although it has identified that Mr Hooper and his cronies approve of bullying on line and therefore only reiterated the blog that was published, I see not a coach of any description meaning the BTEC didn't actually teach a thing. Moving on.

So what is the role of a coach? When coaching for life it helps many who are looking for direction in their future, how they wish to be portrayed within the workplace or their social circles.  Although I specialise as a bereavement coach I also help those who have reached a plateau in their everyday. Financial coaching is where it all began and expanded into other areas. Interestingly it became an experiment for driver training, although there is now a study comparing the difference between the countries that have a sterile group who are being taught as a syllabus only, and those who are taking part in an experiment that involves no teacher involvement, only a safety net.

In the 1970's a similar piece of research was carried out in a field with the keys in the hand of a novice driver, they pursued trial and error to the end and had better understanding of the foot hand control coordination, but, the taught learner who developed from never having driven to competence had more respect for the vehicle and the risk.

So based on this why do we have coaching in driver training? We don't. The novice starts at the beginning with tutoring, as a profession we have to provide value for money, their is no representation of this in a self taught environment. Also the consumer has an expectation and as a service provider that is what is expected, having spoken to trading standards there is a requirement within law to do what it says on the tin, although I am not sure how we would do that as everyone delivers something different. The changes to the grading system will of course mean that we will comply with the legalities associated with trading as a business and product or sale.

Government departments are all expected to comply with the changes that took place in 2011, VOSA/DSA etc provide a service paid for by the public, so anyone falling under their remit will have to provide good value for money, with so many services being privatised this will make monitoring much easier.