Many fine people with strong business backgrounds plus formal coaching training have come onto the market in the last decade. But confusion remains over how to distinguish between them. “Accreditation” is often offered as the answer – but with over half a dozen competing accrediting bodies in the UK alone, there is as yet no single authority.
For many years we stayed outside the fray, seeking to build the Meyler Campbell Business Coach Programme as a hallmark of excellence in its own right. For those of our Graduates operating in the legal sector, we have the additional – and unique – reassurance of accreditation from the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority.
We continue to strengthen both aspects of our current accreditation, but following our comprehensive review of the accreditation “market” in 2007, we decided to seek accreditation from the World Association of Business Coaches (WABC). We chose WABC for two reasons: it is truly global, and since most of our Graduates also operate globally, or in global organisations, that was essential. And it is the only one with a 100% business focus. We made our application as soon as this was opened world-wide in January 2008, and will hear the outcome by mid-year.