About Coaching and Becoming a Coach

I want to become a coach!

What is coaching?  The International Coach Federation (ICF), defines coaching as partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching is: Advanced Development for Advanced Results.

On the Center for Coaching Certifications You Tube channel, you can watch a video on Coaching Certification to get an understanding of how to become a coach.  Coaching is a skill set that is valuable at work, at home, and in all our interactions. Coaching supports individuals at every level to move towards a goal. 

How can I become a coach? Coaching is growing as a profession and as it matures, just as with any profession, to truly become a good, trusted coach, start with training.  At the Center for Coaching Certification, we start Certified Professional Coach Certification because it provides a foundational skill set useful in all roles and is an opportunity to understand coaching and determine interest in moving toward coaching as your vocation and avocation. Next are the Certified Master Coach and Certified Coach Specialist programs to move toward qualifying for ICF membership and credentialing. Visit https://www.coachcert.com/en/about/faqs/how-to-become-a-coach.htmlfor a complete explanation.

What can I do as a coach?

  • Build your own business within which you empower individuals explore their opportunities and possibilities, define their ideal outcome, create strategies, plan actions, and move forward toward their success.
  • Work inside one of the many companies with coaching programs.
  • Work with coaching firm as a coach for their clients.

As with any career move or challenge, with work and perseverance it is possible to create and then do what you want by investing your energy and strength.

Cathy Liska

For content specific to coach training and coaching, guest blog posts are welcome.

Most blog posts here are written or curated by Cathy Liska, Guide from the Side®, CDP, MCC.

Cathy is CEO/Founder of the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC. As Guide from the Side®, she is a sought-after trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience in business management and ownership. Cathy built her diverse team at CCC that includes trainers, customer service, and coaches. She was Co-Leader for ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice, on the Leadership Team for the review and updating of the Code of Ethics in 2024, and active in the Ethics Water Cooler. To ensure she stays current in related areas of expertise, Cathy has earned the following: ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC), Certified Coach Trainer, Certified Consumer Credit Counselor, Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Grief Support Group Facilitator, Certified in the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, Certified Apartment Manager, Certified Civil and Family Mediator, and Certified in DISC.

Cathy’s clients range from attorneys to corporate executives, government to nonprofit, entrepreneurs to children, under or unemployed to newly retired. She specializes in communication, management, conflict, and leadership. Her personal mission statement is “People.” Cathy is known for her passion to serve others so they achieve the results they want.

Podcast: https://www.coachcert.com/podcast.html

Publications: Coaching Perspectives (a series of books with chapters by coach training graduates) https://www.coachcert.com/resources/recommended-reading/coaching-perspectives-series-by-the-center-for-coaching-certification-and-more.html

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