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Lynne Hindmarch (MSc, MA, APECS) is a business psychologist who works as an executive coach and coaching supervisor. Her practice also includes team building, career counselling and assessment for selection. She has over 20 years’ experience of psychometric profiling, and is qualified in a wide range of assessments, which she uses to help clients increase their self-awareness. She has published articles on self doubt, self-efficacy and the use of psycometrics in coaching. Her background is in counselling, higher education, training and development in organisations, and consultancy. She is on the committee of The Psychometrics Forum.
In this blog-article I will discuss areas of cognitive bias that I have come across consistently in my coaching practice, my experience of transference, and the implications for coaching.
Most professions have jargon, only fully understood by the initiated. The coaching profession has jargon too, but has the added misfortune of having two words widely used within the profession which have a rather different meaning elsewhere. One of these is ‘supervision’ (which has been much debated and I won’t dwell on here), and the other is ‘the contract’ (or ‘contracting’).