{"id":5192,"date":"2014-08-27T06:03:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T21:11:46","slug":"what-is-your-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/what-is-your-core\/","title":{"rendered":"What is your CORE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/gu-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"What is your CORE?\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>One of the definitions of the word CORE in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is <strong><em>\u201ca basic, essential, or enduring part (as of an individual, a class, or an entity)\u201d.\u00a0 <\/em><\/strong>In addition to this very meaningful explanation, in coaching the word is also an acronym for \u201cCircle Of Referral Experts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>What is the significance of CORE?\u00a0 The answer lies in the anatomy of the acronym:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Circle:<\/strong> A circle is self-sustained in that it has no end<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of:<\/strong> Belonging to \/ Relating to<\/p>\n<p><strong>Referral:<\/strong> Recommendation through written or oral communication<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experts:<\/strong>\u00a0 A person or people with comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of a subject.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the anatomy above, the CORE of any coaching practice can be its life-blood.\u00a0 This is both true for newly graduating coaches and also for veterans of the industry.\u00a0 At all times the CORE of a coaching practice is significant in its importance or influence. This is because there is tremendous value for the support of your talents both by itself or when paired with other marketing strategies like advertising, trade fairs, speaking engagements etc.\u00a0 It is therefore imperative for every coach to consider creating and maintaining a CORE to support their practice.<\/p>\n<p>The process takes time and effort; it supports effectively building your coaching practice.\u00a0 By creating, growing, and sustaining your CORE, your professional profile is likely to rise exponentially as is your reputation as a contributing and enterprising member of your profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the definitions of the word CORE in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is \u201ca basic, essential, or enduring part (as of an individual, a class, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,40],"tags":[70,59,69,77,48,71,45,50,54,81,80,102,115,73,103],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-business-2","tag-business-development","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coach-marketing-strategies","tag-coaches","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-business","tag-coaching-success","tag-core-competency","tag-goal-setting","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-marketing-strategies","tag-opportunities","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12783,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/12783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}