Blogging is all the rage
I know ABOUT blogging but I don’t know HOW to blog – if you know what I mean?
This is my first ever attempt.
I’ve done some research (a teacher by profession, I would wouldn’t I?) and have armed myself with a list of blog TYPES.
I won’t bore you with the list (blogs are meant to be to short, right?) but the ‘link baiting’ type appeals to me. I immediately feel I want to bring up a contentious coaching issue – something I worry about – and summarised in the following quote from the USA, home of coaching:
‘Virtually anyone can declare themselves a life coach’, say David Fresco, a psychology professor at Kent Sate University, Kent, Ohio. ‘There are no qualifications, no unified approach to coaching, no oversight board. Basically they fly under the radar screen of any sort of oversight’. And the virtues of what many offer are unproven, he says.
Of course I FEEL entirely professional – I take an ethical approach – I insist on confidentiality – I draw clear boundaries between therapy and coaching and of course, efficacy is more important to me than profitability.
I started with a ‘How do I blog?’ question but have finished with a considerably more important question: ‘How do I communicate my professionalism when I work in a currently unregulated area of work that is fast becoming all the rage?’
I would genuinely appreciate the thoughts of the OUT THERE people in blogging universe in response…
Amanda Williamson
PS Check out my ‘credentials’ on www.spirallifecoaching.co.uk if you like!
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