Accredited Coach Training with In Good Company

Accredited Coach Training with In Good Company We are a Global Coaching Training Provider offering EMCC, ICF, AC and ILM Accredited Coaching Qualifications and ongoing Coach Development for coaches.

Based in the UK and offering programmes worldwide. In Good Company is Coaching Training organisation offering EMCC and ILM Accredited Coaching Training programs to individuals aspiring to become a coach, and those that want to integrate coaching skills within their role. We run 'open access' courses where you can book direct and train with us, as well as internal courses for organisations looking to develop their own internal pool of coaches. We are committed to quality and ethics in our work and are deeply passionate about the transformational power of coaching. We bring together ambitious, passionate people who are driven to helping others through their work and provide them the skills, tools, techniques and belief to be able to bring their passion to life. We have been in business since 2011 and training coaches since 2015. Our Facebook Community "The Coaching Crowd" is a supportive community of practising and aspiring coaches who are committed to developing their expertise in world class coaching.

25/09/2026

Being experienced does not make a coach immune to ethical uncertainty.

Most sessions may feel straightforward. Then a situation appears involving confidentiality, competing relationships, safeguarding or risk, and there is no obvious answer.

A code of ethics provides a foundation, but it cannot prescribe a response to every human situation.

A coach supervisor will not make the decision for us. They help us slow down, examine different perspectives and reach a more thoughtful decision without navigating the complexity alone.

That is why supervision is not an optional extra reserved for difficult moments. The relationship needs to exist before the high-stakes moment arrives.

Listen to Why Every Coach Needs Supervision: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

Explore supervision training: https://igcompany.com/supervisiontraining

23/09/2026

A coaching session ended hours ago. Why are you still carrying it?

Perhaps you keep replaying one answer. Maybe you felt unusually protective, frustrated or responsible. Perhaps the client's story touched something in your own.

That does not automatically mean you coached badly. It may mean there is something valuable to notice.

Supervision gives us a confidential space to explore what belongs to the client, what belongs to us and what is happening in the relationship between us.

We do not need to carry every open mental tab alone.

Hear our full conversation in Why Every Coach Needs Supervision.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

Explore supervision training: https://igcompany.com/supervisiontraining

21/09/2026

Who supports the coach when a client conversation stays with them long after the session has ended?

Coaching can look like a conversation between two people. Beneath that conversation sit two different histories, identities, belief systems and emotional worlds.

As coaches, we bring ourselves into the room too.

In this episode of The Coaching Crowd Podcast, we explore why every coach needs supervision and why it is far more than a professional requirement.

We talk about the questions that can stay with us after a session:
• Why did I react so strongly to that client?
• Why do I feel stuck with this person?
• Am I serving them in the best way I can?
• Why am I still carrying this conversation hours later?
These questions are not evidence that we have failed. They are signals inviting us to reflect.
We explore the three purposes of coaching supervision:
• Normative: supporting safe and ethical practice
• Formative: developing our skill, judgement and confidence
• Restorative: helping us process the emotional demands of coaching.

Supervision helps us become less reactive, more curious and more comfortable with uncertainty. It can help us notice blind spots, release the urge to rescue and protect the energy we need to serve our clients well.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

Explore supervision training: https://igcompany.com/supervisiontraining

14/09/2026

What changes when the person sitting in front of you is not a coachee, but another coach?

In our latest episode of The Coaching Crowd, we explore the difference between coaching and coaching supervision.

Although the two practices share many skills, their purpose and focus are distinct.

When we coach, we are usually supporting a client to move towards a goal, outcome or desired change.

In coaching supervision, the coach becomes the client and the coaching itself becomes the work.

Our attention turns towards:
• How the coach is practising
• What may be influencing their client work
• Professional ethics and safeguarding
• Their development and identity as a coach
• The sustainability of their practice
• Patterns and relationships that may not yet be visible

Supervision can be a more emergent and exploratory space. Rather than moving immediately towards a solution, we can remain curious about what the coach’s experience might be revealing.

A coach may arrive looking for reassurance that they handled a session correctly. The most valuable question may not be whether they were right or wrong. It may be why they need reassurance and what that need can teach them about their practice.

We also explore the expanded field of coaching supervision. Coaches bring their own experiences, their clients and the systems surrounding those clients. The supervisor brings their observations and responses too. All of this can become part of the work.

For experienced coaches, supervision training offers an opportunity to deepen their practice, support other coaches and contribute to the continuing development of the profession.

Listen to Episode 263 of The Coaching Crowd to explore the difference between coaching and coaching supervision.

Learn more about our Diploma in Coaching Supervision:
https://www.igcompany.com/supervisiontraining

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

What has coaching supervision helped you notice about yourself or your practice?

09/09/2026

Who Supports a Coach?

As coaches, we are often the people holding space for others.

We listen to complexity.

We sit with uncertainty.

We notice what is not being said.

We help clients navigate decisions, emotions and change.

But that work asks something of us too.

In our latest podcast episode, we explore the International Coaching Federation’s new Coaching Supervisor Specialization and why it represents such an important development for the coaching profession.

Coaching supervision gives us space to reflect on:
• Ethical questions
• Complex client relationships
• Our emotional responses
• Professional boundaries
• Our continuing development
• Our own wellbeing

This is not the same as mentor coaching. Mentor coaching focuses more closely on coaching skills and competencies. Supervision creates a wider reflective space where we can examine ourselves, our practice and the systems surrounding our client work.

For experienced coaches, the new ICF specialization also creates a professional opportunity. It provides a clearer pathway into coaching supervision and a recognised quality standard that can help coaches identify suitably trained supervisors.
We believe this is a meaningful shift.

It moves supervision closer to the centre of professional coaching practice and reinforces a simple principle: coaches should not have to hold everything alone.

Explore our Diploma in Coaching Supervision:
https://www.igcompany.com/supervisiontraining

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

03/09/2026

Your CPD tells a story about you as a coach.

Look back over the development you have chosen during the past few years.

What does it say?
What subjects keep drawing your attention?
What have your clients taught you that you need to understand more deeply?
Where have you expanded your capability?

Mastery is not built through a burst of learning before accreditation.

It grows through consistent curiosity over time.

Episode 261 explores how professional development, reflective practice and experience contribute to master-level coaching.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

01/09/2026

Master coaching is not the point where you finally know everything.

In many ways, it is the opposite.

It is developing the ability to sit with:
Complexity.
Ambiguity.
Uncertainty.
Ethical dilemmas.

And situations where no coaching model gives you a neat answer.

Over time, the models become integrated into how you practise rather than something you consciously reach for.

That is part of what professional maturity can look like.

We explore the pathway towards mastery in Episode 261 of The Coaching Crowd Podcast.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

31/08/2026

When do you actually start preparing to become a master-level coach?

Probably earlier than you think.

It can be tempting to imagine master accreditation as something you look at when you have accumulated enough coaching hours.

Then one day you download the requirements and realise that coaching hours were only part of the story.

Mastery can also involve:
• Professional maturity
• Reflective practice
• Ethical development
• A distinctive coaching identity
• Ongoing CPD
• Contribution to the wider coaching profession

That last point can easily be overlooked.

Contribution might mean volunteering, publishing, supporting professional groups, carrying out research, sharing useful resources or training as a coaching supervisor.

It does not need to begin when you are preparing your application.

In fact, it is far more meaningful when it has developed naturally throughout your coaching career.

In Episode 261 of The Coaching Crowd Podcast, we explore what the pathway towards coaching mastery can look like and why the gap between where you are now and where you want to be may be smaller than it feels.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

27/08/2026

There may be no such thing as a difficult client.

There may be clients who expose the limits of our current practice.

That is a very different perspective.

Instead of asking:
"Why is this person so difficult to coach?"
we can become curious about:
"What am I finding difficult here?"
"What is happening between us?"
"What might this reveal about my development?"

That shift from judgement to curiosity can create valuable learning for both coach and client.

Episode 260 explores how our own humanity shapes our coaching potential.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

25/08/2026

Your client does not need to be impressed by you.

They need the opportunity to become impressed by themselves.

That distinction matters.

When we are trying to demonstrate our value as coaches, we can become focused on finding the brilliant question, creating the breakthrough or delivering the insight.

But sometimes that gets in the way.

Presence can be more powerful than performance.

Attention can be more powerful than another clever question.

Listen here: https://podfollow.com/the-coaching-crowd

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