{"id":8853,"date":"2020-10-01T11:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8853"},"modified":"2023-06-13T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:19:10","slug":"becoming-a-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/becoming-a-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Path to Becoming a Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the question is raised as to whether training is necessary to becoming a coach.\u00a0 Technically and legally, you can call yourself with no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\">training<\/a>.\u00a0 Even my dog can call herself a coach.\u00a0 The more important question is whether that is ethical and moral.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it this way: How willing are you to engage a therapist, counselor, financial advisor, accountant, attorney, or any other professional if they have no training and no accountability to a Code of Ethics?<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, how willing are you and how much are will you pay to hire a coach with whom you will share much personal information if they have no training?<\/p>\n<p>Just as with any other profession, becoming a coach involves completing coach approved training and ideally also includes earning a credential with the International Coaching Federation.\u00a0 Here is what they require:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8854 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Staircase.png\" alt=\"Training Staircase\" width=\"578\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Staircase.png 666w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Staircase-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Staircase-132x60.png 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The paths to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\">ACC and PCC<\/a> credentials with the Center for Coaching Certification are depicted here:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8855 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Path.png\" alt=\"Training Path\" width=\"536\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Path.png 612w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Path-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Training-Path-115x60.png 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\">Coach training<\/a> is designed to build on your existing experience and skills with specific application of the coaching competencies in a coaching relationship.\u00a0 Offering quality coach training on the ICF&#8217;s Core Competencies of a Coach, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\">Center for Coaching Certification<\/a> (CCC) is the only ICF-approved program accredited by IACET to offer CEUs. CCC provides professional support with a robust suite of tools, post-graduate opportunities and support, and free continuing education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the question is raised as to whether training is necessary to becoming a coach.\u00a0 Technically and legally, you can call yourself with no training.\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[711,1256,278,48,85,50,86,49,1089,712],"class_list":["post-8853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-acc","tag-becoming-a-coach","tag-center-for-coaching-certification","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-certification","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-international-coaching-federation","tag-pcc","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853","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=8853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11758,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8853\/revisions\/11758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}