Mentor Coaches and Mentor Coaching Information

Mentor Coaching Recommended
While you may feel that you’re a natural coach with great listening and empathy, please realize that coaching is a profession with a specific skill set based on core competencies. Most professions encourage or require some form of internship or mentoring for new trainees, and with that concept in mind, ADDCA strongly encourages each trainee to work with a mentor coach to assist in your professional development as a coach.

It’s extremely useful to experience coaching yourself to help you appreciate the value of coaching. Great coaches have their own coaches.


A mentor coach can: 

  1. Support your personal growth and development.
  2. Help develop your coaching skills and prepare for certification
  3. Encourage getting your coaching business started and growing  

We are happy to refer you to mentor coaches, or you can look for a certified coach at ICF who mentors. To apply for ICF certification, you’ll need letters from two ICF-certified coaches who have heard you coach. You must have received at least 10 hours of mentor coaching to apply for certification. 

 

You might want to think about the following questions when considering a mentor coach:

  1. What would I like to accomplish with a mentor coach?
  2. When would be the best time for me to work with a mentor coach? 
  3. What am I looking for in a mentor coach? 
  4. What do I expect from a mentor coach?  
  5. What things about me would it be helpful for a mentor coach to know?

It is wise to interview a mentor coach just as you would a regular coach to find the right match for you.

 

Requirements in Hiring a Mentor Coach:

Your Mentor Coach must be a PCC or MCC. Your Mentor coach has a thriving coaching practice that is not made up exclusively of coaching coaches.

We do recommend that. the Mentor coach also be an ADHD coach and know the ADDCA program They have been a coach trainer or assessor for ICF or some coach training.

Here are some recommended questions that you might want to explore with a mentor coach:

  1. How long have you been coaching? And mentor coaching?
  2. What is your specialty or niche?
  3. How would you describe your coaching style?
  4. What does your coaching practice look like?
  5. Are you ICF certified? (Is your certification current?)
  6. Are you active with ICF? (For example, are you a certification evaluator?)
  7. What is your background, experience, and training?
  8. How many people have you coached and/or mentor coached?
  9. What are the characteristics of your ideal clients?
  10. What are your coaching formats? (one-on-one, group, combo, frequency of sessions, length of sessions)
  11. What are your fees?
  12. Do you have specific programs or services for mentees?

If you are truly serious about making coaching your new profession, then we urge you to work with a mentor coach during your training.

 

How to find a list of Mentor Coaches: