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New phase of EMCC standards research announced

UK20 Jan 2005Learning NewsEuropean Mentoring and Coaching Council

Invitation to participate in ground-breaking Standards Project.

The European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) this week announced that it is entering the second phase of its ground-breaking Standards Research Project.

In the first phase, an expert panel identified a wide set of key competencies for coaching and mentoring professionals. Now the EMCC is asking the rest of the industry - and its clients - to help refine these findings further.

Project director Pauline Willis said: "The opinions of coaching /mentoring practitioners, academics, trainers, programme managers and other key consumers of coaching and mentoring services are all very important and all of these groups are invited to take part."

She added: "Results of this research will support the professionalisation of the coaching and mentoring industry. They will also be of specific practical value to a range of organisations, training providers, universities and professional bodies, both within Europe and internationally who use EMCC research outputs to inform the development of Standards for Coaching and Mentoring practice."

The results of the research will be announced at the EMCC's annual Standards Workshop on June 15 and will also be published in a range of academic and practitioner-focused journals, as well as on the EMCC's website, www.emcccouncil.org

This latest tranche of research takes the form of an online survey. EMCC members will be able to access it through the EMCC using their allocated usernames and passwords. Non-members are equally welcome to take part and anyone interested in participating should contact Project Director Pauline Willis at www.lauriate.com

Pauline urged: "Anyone wishing to take part should act now as the closing date for completed questionnaires is February 10."

She added: "Any professional coach or mentor completing the questionnaire will also receive a CPD certificate in recognition of the time and effort they have spent. They'll also have the satisfaction of knowing they will have played an important role in shaping the future of the coaching and mentoring industry and may also find that taking part in the research will also be useful in reflecting on their own development agenda."

About the European Mentoring and Coaching Council

The European Mentoring and Coaching Council was created in 2002 to promote industry-wide good practice. Its executive committee is made up of some of the most experienced figures in the coaching and mentoring industry.

Over the last two years, the EMCC's major consultative research project on coaching and mentoring competencies has involved sourcing and collating both national and international standards for coaching and mentoring competence.

The consultation process has been extended to a range of participants using both face-to-face interviews and an innovative online process. Broad support for the project has come from the main professional bodies, training organisations, consultancies and academic institutions operating in the coaching and mentoring industry who have all supplied representatives to complete an extensive online feedback process.

Forty representatives from the coaching and mentoring community have contributed to the broad project and from this group a large 'expert panel' of 26 representatives of the coaching and mentoring industry took part in the online process. These experts were mostly drawn from the UK, however, input was also provided by representatives from US, Australian and European professional coaching bodies. The online process is now being refined to support the second stage of the project. This will involve collecting feedback from buyers of services across Europe as well as training organisations and service providers. In this way the whole coaching and mentoring community will be able to contribute to the ongoing work on the development of standards and industry benchmarks conducted by the EMCC.

The EMCC's aims are:

- The on-going development and application of a widely agreed statement of ethical and professional standards in coaching and mentoring

- Creation and support of forums, using traditional and new media, for dialogue and mutual learning across the spectrum of mentoring and coaching

- Lobbying, where appropriate, to support socially responsible coaching and mentoring in all sectors of employment and community development

- Stimulation of research and benchmarking

- Maintenance of an extensive library of materials on coaching and mentoring

- Respecting the wide range of perspectives and approaches to mentoring, coaching and the complementary professions that may be appropriate for different contexts

- Recognising the continuous professional development needs, and valid options for meeting those needs, of all levels of experience of coaching and mentoring, from full time professionals to occasional volunteers, within an appropriate framework of standards

- Recognising the needs of consumers of coaching and mentoring services for an authoritative, impartial and objective source of information on the quality of service provision available in their geographical area Improving communications between providers of mentoring and coaching services; their clients and customers, both individual and organisational and academics engaged in the search for good practice in coaching and mentoring

- Providing a membership forum for all those involved in the wide variety of the applications of coaching and mentoring, while placing its greatest emphasis on those areas, which are not already well represented by other bodies.

New phase of EMCC standards research announced

Invitation to participate in ground-breaking Standards Project.

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