International Coaching Week: what’s in it for the coaches?
By Dorothy Nesbit
International Coaching Week, which takes place between 7-11 February is an event sponsored by the International Coach Federation to educate the public whilst giving something back. But what do the coaches get out of it?
A band of coaches who took part in a voluntary project within a school highlighted a number of short-term and long-term benefits, many of them unexpected.
The project kicked off in 2006 when 14 of us who shared a passion for education “adopted” Normand Croft Community School in West London, offering coaching to its senior leaders. It was a way of keeping...