Over a decade ago, I worked for a leadership consulting and coaching company. I was a coach inside an organization where clients had four coaching sessions to integrate and implement concepts from a two-day communications workshop they had attended. Participants...
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ICF announces changes to coaching log submission
Today, the ICF announced changes to the coaching log submission requirements for ACC, PCC and MCC credential applications. Here is where you can read the full announcement here The key point being this. You need to keep your coaching log...
Master the basics of coaching then continually elevate
I have a very sweet memory of me at around age 8, being a ballerina in some local play. I don’t remember the details, just the feeling of dancing around in a floaty fairy-like costume, often pointing my toes in...
Part 2 – Distinctions on coaching session structure for ICF credential success
To read part 1 of this article, go here Managing Session Progress Once you’ve established the coaching session agreement and invited the client to choose where to start exploring, you use your coaching skills to the best of your level...
Part 1 – Distinctions on coaching session structure for ICF credential success
A coaching conversation is a conversation with a purpose. And the purpose of the conversation is ultimately determined by the client. We as the coach may support the client to define or refine the purpose or outcome of the coaching...
Flossing the mind
For many coaches, recording coaching sessions to submit to the ICF can bring up anxiety and stress-filled thoughts, and scary feelings of inadequacy. This is ‘normal'; we are exposed to school exams in childhood, and we are either an A...
ICF announces changes to MCC, PCC and ACC credential applications and renewals
Today, February 15, 2018, the International Coach Federation (ICF) announced a range of changes that will affect the MCC, PCC and ACC credential applications. Rather than outline them all here, I've made a PDF of the email I received today...
The topic is not the client’s agenda
More often than not, a client will come to a coaching session with a particular topic or situation they want to talk through, in order to gain clarity about how they can move forward. What I often notice when I...
From Awareness to Action
From experience, one of the most fulfilling aspects of being a coach is when your client gets in touch with a new insight or emerging awareness. This often comes in the form of one of the following from your client,...
Types of trust in a coaching relationship
Note: This article has been updated in 2023. When we engage in coach training, we often hear the idea that our client has all the answers within them and our role is to help them get in touch with those...