If you don't know how to sail,
         nor know what you'll encounter during the trip,
                       it's hard to get to the other side.
 Then look for a skipper  who  sailed the sea many times before.

You can only run a marathon if you train a lot. If you train all by yourself, you need a lot of perseverance and the risk of injuries is high. It goes much faster with a coach and you achieve better results.

The same applies to learning research skills. You can learn a lot from books and you can spend hours on the internet, but a good coach can tell you where the information is that you need and can answer your specific questions. Consequently, you learn the needed research techniques faster and easier, and it increases the quality of your research.

Everyone needs a coach every now and then. A coach is someone who encourages you to keep going and who points you to a better and easier way.

Coaches can be found everywhere. However, not every coach fits your needs.

A coach is not someone who does the work for you, but is someone who helps you to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to perform optimally. You can see that in sports: the athlete has to perform, the coach stands near and gives instructions.

That's how it works in learning research skills too. Asking someone to do the work for you doesn't help you to master those skills. That is not a good coach. It just shows that you are lazy and have enough money to let someone else do the work that is too difficult for you.

If you are looking for a research coach, than a first selection is between coaches in qualitative en quantitative research. Next, some coaches needs to be master in the techniques you want to learn. It is not so easy to find the coach you need. And how do you know a coach is qualified enough to help you? Besides, coaches don't have to live nearby but might be able to help you via internet. How to find them?

On this page you can find a list of coaches. All these coaches had to fill in a form about their expertise and the communication applications they use for coaching via internet. All coaches do the job independently from our company. Consequently, the coach decides how much is being charged for one or more consults, and it is up to you whether you want that person to be your coach and pay for the service.

Although we keep an eye on the quality of the performance of the coaches on our list, we are not accountable for their performance. However, we want to provide you with qualified people, so recommendations at the coach's page are welcome. And if a coach performed badly, please tell us too. We only want to suggest highly qualified coaches.

Our coaches have to subscribe our mission: they all want to teach you how to conduct research. Our coaches bring you to a higher level. So at the end of a coaching traject, you should be able to solve the problems you encountered.