All the coaches that you have access to here have at least 100 hours of coaching experience - and most have many more. When you choose a coach, think about:
- how many hours they have coached altogether,
- how many in the last six months, and,
- whether it is important for you to find a coach who has worked extensively with the health sector or managers at your level and experience.
If you imagine that a typical coaching session lasts for 2 hours, you could work out how frequently a coach has coached in recent months.
The importance of health care experience, or not, is a more difficult issue to advise you on. Many experienced coaches will argue that what is all-important is the good application of coaching techniques and that a background knowledge of context is unimportant. Others will counter argue that it helps clients to know that their coaches understand their environments and cultures.
