PANDEMIC SEES RISE IN CHARLATAN ‘COACHES’

As many struggle to regain purpose and identify career next steps as a result of the impact of the pandemic, ‘cowboy’ coaching is back big time and with a vengeance, it seems. The number of complaints about online ‘coaches’ has been increasing, according to a lawyer, Lucy Wheeler, quoted in an article in the Guardian on 18 April. She said she’d been contacted last year by more than 20 people during one week in 2020 seeking to get out of a 12-month contract with one particular ‘business coach’. The same article reports that conversations and complaints...

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