Coach Selection Recommendations
1. Educate yourself about coaching. Hundreds of articles have been written about coaching the last 8-10 years.

2. Know your objectives for working with a coach.

3. Interview two or three coaches before you decide on one. Ask them about their experience, qualifications, skills, and ask for at least two references.

4. Remember, coaching is an important relationship. There should be a connection between you and the coach that "feels" right to you.

Below are coaching specialties to review before selecting a coach:

Executive-Corporate Coaching:

• Human Resources Departments interested in hiring external coaches.
  
• CEO's, executives, managers and other professionals who would like a coach.
  
• Companies looking to launch a coaching initiative
  
• Companies intending to train their managers to be coaches.
  
• Intiative to prevent and/or cure burnout.
  
• Companies interested in coaching workshops.

Companies wanting the support of a coach in any of the following:

• Strategic planning, process re-engineering; creating a compelling vision; launching and developing teams, or 360-degrees reviews.

Small Business Coaching:

• Entrepreneurs
  
• Owners or Managers of small companies.
  
• Start-up companies (actual or planned).
  
• Professionals in private practice.
  
• People who run a business from their home.
  
• Executives thinking of leaving companies and launching a business.
  
• Personal/Life Coaching
  
• Life planning
  
• Life vision & enhancement
  
• Extreme self care
  
• Relationsips (singles, copuples, families, etc)
  
• Health & Fitness
  
• Creativity
  
• Financial Freedom
  
• Organization
  
• Children/Teens/College Students
  
• Attention Deficit Disorder

Career/Transition Coaching:

• People in career transition
  
• People with a big career decision to make.
  
• People in a corporate job or considering.
  
• People struggling with the decision of whether to stay in a corporate job.

People who would like to work with a coach familiar with the following:
The changing expectations of employees and employers; trends in the workplace, values and issues of loyalty and security; specific evaluation criterias or ones company, future or career satisfaction; determinining ones readiness to strike out on their own or look for another career.

Coach Referral Service
HOW CAN I FIND THE RIGHT COACH_
The NCF hosts a searchable directory of its coach members called the Coach
Referral Service (CRS). The CRS makes available the information to match
the appropriate coach with the client, depending on the client's needs.
Since coaches often specialize in various areas, it's a good idea for
the prospective client to look around for the coach with the most experience
and combination of qualities they seek. In the CRS, you can find business
coaches, financial coaches, relations coaches, life planning coaches,
a rock-n-roll band coach and many many more.