{"id":8426,"date":"2025-08-20T14:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T14:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2025-08-21T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:10:34","slug":"do-coaches-need-domain-knowledge-or-just-coaching-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/do-coaches-need-domain-knowledge-or-just-coaching-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"Do coaches need domain knowledge or just coaching skill?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has long been argued that domain expertise isn\u2019t essential to coaching success. Many coaches would agree that what matters in coaching isn\u2019t what we know about the client\u2019s world, but how well we support their thinking. As such, coaching efficacy has largely been attributed to craft, with little value placed on how much expertise or experience the coach brings to the client\u2019s context.\n<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n\n<p>Yet for many clients, a coach\u2019s experience does matter, and it plays a subtle but significant role in how they choose, relate to, and engage with their coach. To better understand this dynamic, this issue of Coaching Research in Practice explores a recent study examining the perceived value of workplace experience among both clients and coaches.&nbsp;<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/coaching-research#!#193\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p><b>All ReciproCoaches can access the full article for one week [<a href=\"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/coaching-research\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>]<\/b>.\u00a0&nbsp;<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\n\n<p>Written by Kerryn Griffiths, PhD, PCC and Global ReciproCoach Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has long been argued that domain expertise isn\u2019t essential to coaching success. Many coaches would agree that what matters in coaching isn\u2019t what we know about the client\u2019s world, but how well we support their thinking. As such, coaching efficacy has largely been attributed to craft, with little value placed on how much expertise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":8427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8434,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/8434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reciprocoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}