EMCC Competence Development

Reflective practice against EMCC's eight competence categories, supervision journaling, and mentoring practice development.

What's inside

This collection maps to EMCC's eight competence categories, providing reflective practice tools, supervision journaling frameworks, and mentoring practice development for coaches working within the EMCC framework.

The eight competence areas:

Understanding Self — Self-awareness as the foundation of effective practice: your values, assumptions, triggers, and their impact on your coaching.

Commitment to Self-Development — Structured approaches to ongoing learning, feedback-seeking, and honest assessment of your development needs.

Managing the Contract — Establishing, maintaining, and renegotiating the coaching agreement — including the three-way contracts that organisational coaching requires.

Building the Relationship — Trust, rapport, and the relational conditions that enable genuine exploration.

Enabling Insight and Learning — The skills that help clients see what they couldn't see before: questioning, challenging, and creating the conditions for shifts in perspective.

Outcome and Action Orientation — Supporting clients to move from insight to commitment to sustained action.

Use of Models and Techniques — Integrating frameworks appropriately — serving the client rather than demonstrating theoretical knowledge.

Evaluation — Assessing the effectiveness of your practice and the impact of the coaching engagement.

How to use this collection

For EMCC accreditation, work through systematically as part of credential preparation. The reflective exercises build the evidence portfolio that EMCC assessors review.

For ongoing development, use individual competence sections for focused work. The supervision journaling tools help structure reflective practice between supervision sessions.

For mentoring development, the mentoring practice sections extend beyond coaching into the specific skills mentoring requires — sharing experience, giving direct guidance, and knowing when to switch modes.

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