more and more clients want to be told what could be best, mentored towards making decisions and supported as they proceed with major changes. Generational gaps in competencies are real and the current framework will have to evolve as lines are being blurred between coaching, mentorship and consulting. I feel that we’ll soon have to get away from labelling and open the door to agile holistic coaching. Thank you!

the picture on this page tells the story. No human to human connection there. I am noticing it is probably too late, technology will prevail. The question is how do we adapt as we become more and more machine like. Technology will use us not vice versa.

the growing popularity of self-coaching tools. I suspect that AI-based apps will become more and more advanced “thinking partners” that can tailor-make prompts, monitor moods and thought loops, and incorporate neuroscience to nudge “day-to-day self-inquiry”. Human coaches will endure and move toward more of a supervision role for these self-coaching experiences, to help ensure clients are aware of and staying on track with their deeper goals.

there was a possibility of having “Annual Mental Health Checkup”. Post world wars our societies have been working relentlessly toward growth, building, creating, achieving, succeeding and all. Then COVID happens, a sudden big break to everything that we were up against at a very high speed. The repercussions of which are far beyond what is visible yet. I feel coaching is going to be at frontline along with other mental health professions in taking the world toward healthy and sustainable growth.

mentoring and supervision for human coaches will still be viable at least in the next 5 years but I am concerned if these 2 aspects of reflective work of a coach will also be replaced by AI. In the mentoring space, I note that the use of tools such as Raenotes can pick up coaching competencies in an audio recording with about 60% accuracy. ChatGPT, Claude, etc. can engage in intellectual discussions on issues faced by a coach and provide almost similar support as a human mentor and supervisor.