The journey to be a coach, like most professional careers, includes specialized training, certification, credentialing, and accountability to ethics. Specialized training starts with selecting an …
What does it mean to be a coach?
competencies
Competency Awareness: A Key to Coaching Success
In today’s rapidly evolving professional landscape, coaching has emerged as a powerful tool for personal and professional development. As the demand for coaching continues to …
A Self-Reflective Journey
Coaching Competency 2, Embodies a Coaching Mindset, includes “Develops and maintains an ongoing self-reflective practice.” A common question is, How? Let’s explore options. ·     Journal …
How to Use Coaching in Public-facing Jobs
Because coaching involves people and communication skills, learning coaching helps during interactions with others. This is true at home, with friends, and at work. Some …
Doing Coaching versus Being a Coach
What is the difference between doing coaching and being a coach? In short, doing coaching is the technical tasks and actions. Being a coach goes …
6 Transferrable Skills When Transitioning to Coaching
Many professionals from many different career paths become interested in coaching. Sometimes they experience it, other times they learn about it online or from their …
Diversity and 5 Things to Do
Diversity is a currently a hot topic – over time it seems to ebb and flow in terms of public attention. Whether the focus is …
Coaching Competencies Applied with the Affirmation Story
During the Certified Professional Coach program, . This process creates rapport at a deep level in two sessions – and rapport is the number one …
An Opportunity
Number 28 in the ICF Code of Ethics calls on coaches to do good. What does that mean? How can we do that? It starts …
ICF’s PCC Markers Speak to Diversity
When you pursue a credential with the ICF, you submit one recording for the ACC or two for the PCC or MCC of yourself coaching. …