One of the richest forms of development comes from the moments where we choose to be courageous and curious with ourselves and our coaching. Coaches benefit from inquiry as much as their clients do. What are the areas where we wrestle? What activates our need to drive...
There is an idea that, as coaches, we wear different hats in our coaching conversations, which is an interesting idea to me. What I often hear from coaches is, “Well, I needed to share this bit of information… for the good of my client. So, I take the coach hat...
The old adage, you don’t know what you don’t know… until you do, rings true in coaching. There are many ideas about what coaching is and isn’t, and they run the gamut from counseling to consulting, with some coaching sprinkled into the mix. In...
Certain questions come up repeatedly in conversations with coaches, prospective coaches, and people considering if they want to invest their credentials. One that I often hear is, “What does it matter if I get a Professional Coaching Credential?” The runner up, “Is...
The International Coach Federation (ICF) recently shared that 30,000 people now have a coaching credential. What an incredible milestone. There are still a lot of folks out in the world calling themselves coaches, many who have little to no training. There is a...
A lot of professional coaches are in the middle of a shift. The International Coach Federation (ICF) has updated the Core Competencies; those pillars that indicate if you are professionally coaching, as opposed to consulting or counseling. There has been an additional...
