Remote coaching: 7 things to check to choose the right platform
Remote coaching is seeing its popularity increase more and more among companies and large groups.
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However, despite this growing demand, there are still few digital platforms offering premium quality remote professional coaching.
As the professional coaching industry is still poorly regulated, more than 90% of it is invested by independent coaches with no real legal structure or financial solidity. So how can you be sure of choosing the right partner when you decide to embark on remote coaching programs to develop your company's talents? In this article, we present 7 points that must be validated before choosing a remote coaching platform that guarantees reliability, security and efficiency.
#1 Verify the reliability of the platform from a technical point of view.
Choose one high quality digital platform, ensuring you a complete absence of bugs, one security and total confidentiality.Remote coaching is a great performance accelerator and allows a large number of talents from the same company to be coached at the same time, no matter where they are in the world. Provided that the platform guarantees a perfect alignment with the IT security criteria (RGPD in particular) of the organization concerned.
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#2 Validate the professional coaching expertise of the proposed coaching team.
4 points to validate about professional coaches. They must all:
- Have at least 5 years of experience and expertise as a coach
- Be certified by a recognized coaching school
- To be continuously trained and supervised following their certification
- Have solid references in businesses similar to yours
Beyond these elements that guarantee the expertise in professional coaching of the coaches concerned, it is important to also check that the coaches have a solid professional experience prior to their job as a coach (at least 10 years).The “business” profiles of coaches, their knowledge of the company, business challenges, and their results orientation are also points to check.
Find all the criteria for choosing a professional coach in this article.
#3 Choose a remote coaching platform that offers genuine professional coaching and not hidden training
By definition, professional coaching implies a personalized exchange and a real adaptation of content and processes to the objectives of each employee; however, there are countless online coaching platforms that actually give access to online training and not personalized support, intended to achieve specific objectives. It would be more appropriate to consider these services as training or e-learning.
#4 Verify that you receive a regular dashboard and that the information provided to you is sufficient to manage the progress and quality of coaching
To respect the ethics of coaching, no information concerning the content of the coaching sessions should be sent to you.On the other hand, your remote professional coaching partner must offer you a activity reporting including: the coaching objectives worked on by the coachees, the number of hours consumed, the progress of the coachings, the information on the satisfaction of the coachees, the verbatims left by the coachees, the selected coaches, etc...
#5 Verify the professionalism and expertise of the company behind the remote coaching platform
Is it a business recognized as a professional in the field of corporate coaching ? Has this business existed for a long time? Is it financially solid?
How does it recruit coaches on the platform? Has the coaching team worked with this company for a long time?
#6 Choose a platform offering flexible and varied coaching methods
The ideal is to choose a remote coaching platform that offers a wide variety of possibilities and different formats in order to meet a maximum of needs and situations encountered by your employees (coaching for a few hours in a longer format, whether or not attached to existing programs...).
#7 Choose a platform that can be customized to your colors
Valuing your company with its talents is essential to the development of your employer brand. Professional coaching platforms most often offer the possibility of using your colors with a few pages bearing your logo or a few elements to recognize your program.
Click & Coach, a professional remote coaching solution, was created 2 years ago by Talentis. Our objective: to increase the effectiveness of professional coaching by allowing the greatest number of talents from the same company to benefit from individual coaching sessions, while guaranteeing the reliability and quality of premium quality coaching.
At Talentis, we have been working for more than 16 years alongside major French and international groups to support the development of their talents. It is thanks to this recognized expertise and to permanent work, particularly in terms of innovation, that we were able to set up this remote coaching platform according to the 7 criteria detailed above.
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