If you are an ICF member and read the monthly Member Updates, you might have seen the preview late in 2019 that the ICF had changed its name from International Coach Federation to International Coaching Federation. On February 13, 2020,...
Author: Carly Anderson
Not knowing…what to write about
This month, I had no idea of what to write about for this blog article. This is a common experience for me almost every month. Rather than write something I didn’t feel like writing, I waited for something to emerge...
ICF releases Updated Code of Ethics
This article has been updated January 2024. Every 3 years, the International Coach Federation (ICF) undertakes a review of their Code of Ethics and releases the latest update. The last ethics update was June 2015, so this is 4 years...
ICF releases Updated Core Competency Model
On November 14, 2019, the International Coach Federation (ICF) widely released their Updated Core Competency Model (I’ll refer to as UCCM in this article). The timing of my monthly newsletter, being the 15th of each month, allows me to share...
Learning Mindset and the October Bikram Yoga 30 in 30 challenge
Since April 4, 2008, I’ve been a regular student and participant in Bikram Yoga classes which is a series of 26 yoga postures practiced in a room heated to a minimum of 105 F with around 40% humidity. Each class...
The What Who and How of Coaching
Every single coaching client (and their corporation) I’ve worked with over the past 21 years wants a result from our coaching. That’s a given in every coaching engagement. Yet the way we engage with our client makes a huge difference...
Craft customized questions
This article has been updated in 2025. Two of the most powerful tools of trade of a professional coach is really listening to the client, and asking open-ended questions informed by that listening, which allow the client to discover something...
How do I know what my client really wants from their coaching session
From the title of this blog article, you might think that is a no-brainer of a question. Yet clarifying the client-driven coaching session outcome, is one of the most challenging core competencies for most coaches to master. If you don’t...
Curiosity and Interrupting the client are like oil and water
I’m often asked by my mentor coaching clients, how to stop clients who speak a lot, including if, how and when to interrupt a client. That’s a great inquiry! Here are some of my thoughts and different ideas, which have...
Improv-ing to better coaching skills
I wasn’t sure what I was going to write in this blog article. I had a general idea, and I trust the process of starting to type into a Word Document, with the intention of writing a short article that...