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Achieve and Sustain Excellence in Coaching 3

Coach-specific trainingand practice for coaching are both musts for excellence in coaching.

  • If have not yet attended a class to train coaches, it is essential you choose one and participate fully.  Currently there are well over 300 choices with the time commitment ranging from a few hours to ten years and the price ranging from a few hundred to over ten thousand.  On the Center for Coaching Certification YouTube Channel, there is a video of a webinar on coaching certification.  Live webinars are offered monthly.  Learn about the pros and cons of certification and what to look for in a program.
  • If you have already gone through a coach training program, the focus is on continuing education.  The International Coaching Federation, ICF, and many coaching organizations require continuing education.  At the Center for Coaching Certification, 12 hours of continuing education is required every two years to maintain certification.

Perhaps you are familiar with the saying “practice makes perfect” or alternatively “perfect practice makes perfect” as the newer, more applicable version.  This is true for excellence in coaching too.  For this reason, training programs for coaches generally include the opportunity to practice coaching.  Additionally, many coaches hire a coach to serve as a resource for their own work in coaching.

Enhance your excellence in coaching with both coaching practice while in training and having a coach.

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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