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Category: U #1 – Demonstrates Ethical Practice

Understands and consistently applies coaching ethics and standards of coaching.

ICF Code of Ethics Update 2025

April 14, 2025June 14, 2025 by Carly Anderson
ICF Code of Ethics Update 2025

On April 1, 2025, updates to the International Coaching Federation (ICF) Code of Ethics took effect. The code is designed to guide ethical decision making, guide the ethical training of coaches, uphold ethical standards, and provide regulatory oversight. This article...

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Updates to ICF credential exams

January 14, 2025May 20, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Updates to ICF credential exams

As part of the ICF Credential application process, each coach applicant needs to pass a knowledge exam about coaching. This exam was previously called the ā€œCoach Knowledge Assessment" and more recently the "ICF Credentialing Exam." On November 18, 2024, ICF...

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Engaging in ethics clarifying conversations

March 14, 2024February 5, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Engaging in ethics clarifying conversations

One of the things we coaches need to become masterful at is the ability to have conversations with potential clients, as well as at any time within a coaching session with a current client, about the boundaries of coaching. I...

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How realistic is it to do pure coaching?

November 15, 2023February 5, 2025 by Carly Anderson
How realistic is it to do pure coaching?

Mentoring clients studying coaching skills in my mentoring programs often ask whether doing ā€œpure coachingā€ sessions is a realistic expectation. Pure coaching refers to when the coach stays in ā€œcoaching mindsetā€ through an entire coaching session, refraining from giving unasked-for...

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Coaching Client Identity

June 14, 2023February 6, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Coaching Client Identity

Especially in recent years, there’s been heightened focus on Identity. Yet Identity has been part of societies for every generation, in all cultures of the world. Whether it’s based in political, religious, racial, gender or age differences (to name a...

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Coach behaviors which influence their client

May 14, 2023February 6, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Coach behaviors which influence their client

Coaching as a professional conversation differs from other conversations because the mindset of the coach and client is one of Partnership; keeping the client "in the spotlight" as it's the client-desired outcome that the coach is there to serve. A...

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The flow of a coaching conversation

March 15, 2023February 5, 2025 by Carly Anderson
The flow of a coaching conversation

A coaching conversation is a conversation with a purpose, being a client-determined topic and outcome for each coaching session. Professional Coaches are trained in how to structure a coaching session, so there is maximum opportunity for the client to gain...

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Educate your coaching client on how to use you well

February 14, 2023February 6, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Educate your coaching client on how to use you well

As Professional Coaches, we have a unique opportunity to work deeply with a wide range of people, with different domains of expertise, from different cultures and life experiences. Clients may have technical expertise, be project managers, engineers, or be managing...

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Refrain from giving unsolicited suggestions

November 14, 2022February 6, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Refrain from giving unsolicited suggestions

It can be tempting for a coach to believe their "value" to a client is in the sharing of resources, such as a framework, model or book suggestion for the client. We've been conditioned to believe that our answers are...

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Keep your Coaching Hat On

August 14, 2022February 5, 2025 by Carly Anderson
Keep your Coaching Hat On

Coaching skills are a powerful set of behaviors based in a belief that every person being coached has more wisdom about themselves and their circumstances than they may realize. And that with well-structured questions, and observations, offered to the person...

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Updated ICF Core Competency Model

  • U #1 – Demonstrates Ethical Practice
  • U #2 – Embodies a Coaching Mindset
  • U #3 – Establishes and Maintains Agreements
  • U #4 – Cultivates Trust and Safety
  • U #5 – Maintains Presence
  • U #6 – Listens Actively
  • U #7 – Evokes Awareness
  • U #8 – Facilitates Client Growth

ICF Core Competencies

  • #1 – Meeting Ethical Guidelines
  • #2 – Establishing the Coaching Agreement
  • #3 – Establishing Trust and Intimacy
  • #4 – Coaching Presence
  • #5 – Active Listening
  • #6 – Powerful Questioning
  • #7 – Direct Communication
  • #8 – Creating Awareness
  • #9 – Designing Actions
  • #10 – Planning and Goal Setting
  • #11 – Managing Progress and Accountability

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