Join us for this on-demand webinar, Self-Deception in Coaches, where you’ll explore a conceptual model of self-deception in coaches and gain insights into the implications of this research.
Who Is This For?
- New and experienced professional coaches with an interest in coaching science research
- Coaching supervisors seeking evidence-based methods to support the coaches they work with
What You Will Learn:
- Learn about research findings on the self-deception of coaches and some.
- Discover strategies to become aware of and minimize self-deception.
- Identify ways coaching supervisors can support the coaches they work with.
Course Details:
This on-demand webinar, originally presented to the ICF Coaching Science Community of Practice, will introduce you to new research on self-deception in coaches.
The presenter will share the logic of the research design, the evolution of findings, and the results of the study according to the final conceptual model of self-deception in coaches.
The model will be useful in considering not only the reasons for self-deception, but also some strategies for minimizing self-deception by coaches themselves and opportunities for support by supervisors in this process.
Wider implications of the topic will be discussed in the context of seeing the self of the coach as a main instrument of coaching and with consideration of recent changes in the societies and professional world that coaches serve.
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- Coaching Science
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