Learning the ICF Competencies can be tricky! This new tool will help you learn and anchor these fundamental concepts. Maybe, like me, you were very familiar with the original eleven ICF competencies and found you had to shift your focus when the updated eight competencies arrived on the coaching … [Read more...]
What is International Coaching Week?
International Coaching Week (ICW) is an annual event that celebrates the power of coaching and promotes its benefits to people all around the world. It is so fitting that it happens every spring. For those of us in Southwestern Ontario, leaves are emerging once again on the trees. Daffodils, … [Read more...]
Making Coach Learning Active
Learning and integrating the ICF competencies into your coaching is not easy. The old saying, ‘Don’t worry. It’s just like riding a bike,’ doesn’t apply. Once you learn to ride a bike, you are not likely to forget. This article I came across recently in Scientific American briefly explains that … [Read more...]
Compassion and Coaching
No matter how connected and collaborative you are, there are days when no one gets what you are going through. When the challenges you face are yours and yours alone. It’s true for all of us from time to time. I took a picture of the Lone Cypress while travelling on the 17-Mile drive along the … [Read more...]
You Need to Learn the ICF Competencies
Do coaches need to learn the ICF Competencies? Yes! I am routinely astonished at the number of coaches who submit credential recordings or write the Coach Knowledge Exam without ever having studied the competencies they are pledging to abide by. They show up for the exam but don't take the class … [Read more...]
