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Mentor Coaching Services

If you are:

  • A coach choosing to further develop coaching skills and behaviors
  • A coach seeking tools to improve coaching impact for clients
  • A coach preparing for coach training certification and/or an ICF credential
  • A coach wanting learning forums and community with other coaches

A Mentor Coach co-creates opportunities for continuous learning and self-reflection as well as ongoing skills refinement tailored to a coach’s inner landscape and learning style. In this way, a Mentor Coach engages in the role of a mentor and in the role of the coach simultaneously, using the coaching approach for creating actionable awareness.

"What are the joys and assets coaches bring to their interactions especially those in a mentoring relationship? Communication based on respect, positive regard and compassion. What we bring as seasoned coaches and Certified Mentor Coaches is a collaborative versus hierarchal relationship. The result is more openness to feedback, faster learning that is sustained, and increased ownership and commitment to co-creative change."

— C. Carlson, S. Jones, S. McKay & L. Yort, inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coaches

A Mentor Coach hears, observes and perceives what is present in a coach’s skill set and facilitates what else is possible to expand competency and impact. Over time, a coach rapidly and easily increases his or her facility and ability to artfully demonstrate the ICF core coaching competencies with excellence, confidence and unique self-expression.

The benefits for you by engaging with a Certified Mentor Coach are:

  • Engage in your professional development with a co-creative partner who is an ICF credentialed coach, an inviteCHANGE, Certified Mentor Coach and a confidential and objective sounding board.
  • Advance your proficiency, competency and artistry with the ICF core coaching competencies so that you expand your coaching impact with clients
  • Receive honest feedback about your coaching and communication style as a coach so that you may strengthen your offer to a broader array of clients and environments
  • Access clarity about the process and preparation to fulfill requirements for coaching certification and/or an ICF credential so that you accomplish this valuable, worldwide professional recognition.

inviteCHANGE Definition of Mentor Coach

  • Sourced from humility and a dedication to ego-less service, a mentor coach is a wise and trusted advisor influencing and inspiring excellence and coaching competency in others.
  • Within the spirit of noble service and sacred trust, a mentor coach embodies a passionate commitment in equal parts to co-creation, to synergy, and to excellence, contributing to a dynamic legacy that serves the future of professional coaching with integrity, rigor and passion.

Engage a Mentor Coach

inviteCHANGE Certified Mentor Coaches are available to work with coaches in either a one on one or group format. It is valuable to consider your learning style and professional development goals when making a choice about a format for learning as well as which mentor coach you engage. All Certified Mentor Coach engagements are structured to satisfy ICF credential requirements for new or renewal applications. Our Certified Mentor Coaches also abide by the ICF Code of Ethics and Model Standards of Conduct.

Overview of the Format

  • The most common duration is a one on one engagement for a minimum of 3 months in order to deliver ten hours of mentor coach service.
  • If a group process is desired, the group size will be no less than 3 and no more than 10. In addition, mentoring that occurs in the group will satisfy 7 hours and is supplemented with one on one mentoring for the 3 additional hours required.
  • Attention is focused upon coaching skills and behaviors based upon the behavior skills associated with each ICF core coaching competency at the level of demonstration the coach seeks.
  • The coach will work with established clients, conducting sessions on a recorded line for review with the Certified Mentor Coach as part of the feedback process. [Client permission required.]
  • A coach development plan will be co-created and serve as a resource to evidence specific strengths and development progress for each core coaching competency.

Certified Mentor Coaches