The gold standard for being a coach is membership in the International Coach Federation (ICF). The ICF requires 60 hours of training to become a …
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A Coaching Model for All
One of the challenges in the coaching profession is a clear definition of coaching and ensuring that as coaching professionals we have one Code of …
What about all the different coaching models?
There are many names for the various coaching models and it is confusing: Ontological Coaching NLP Coaching Habits Coaching Co-Active Coaching GROW Resilience Coaching … …
What can a career coach offer me?
A career coach provides a specific process for you to explore your interests, skills, possibilities, and opportunities. A career coach then works with you to identify …
I’m going to college. Do I need a Career Coach?
Fortune magazine said: Do you have a career coach? If not, you could be limiting your success. A ten-year study of coaching at Amoco, now part …
Are coaches trained?
Professional coaches are trained. Unfortunately, there are many calling themselves a coach who do not have training. Because coaching is a self-regulated profession, there are …
Facilitating Learning and Results for Engaging Coaching Clients
In the last three blogs we covered specific application of the core competencies of a coach for engaging coaching clients. The11 Core Competencies are from …
Communicating Effectively for Engaging Coaching Clients
Hopefully you are realizing from the previous two blogs that the 11 Core Competencies of a Coach are also skills that serve to engage new …
Co-Creating the Relationship for Engaging Coaching Clients
In the previous blog we focused on the application of the first category and first two competencies of the 11 Core Competencies from the International …
Setting the Foundation for Engaging Coaching Clients
The 11 Core Competencies of a Coach as defined by the International Coach Federation, ICF, are organized in four areas. Through coach training, these competencies …