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Some FAQ
Why pursue an ICF credential?
ICF Credentials are highly recognized coaching qualifications with credibility around the world.
If you are serious about building or maintaining your coaching business and care for being part of a well-respected, self-regulating profession, you will be interested in gaining ICF Credentials.
There are 3 ICF credentials:
• Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
• Master Certified Coach (MCC)
Each credential requires a specific set of required hours of coach-specific training and coaching experience.
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Benefits of a ICF credential:
• Enhances your credibility and reassures potential clients that you are an experienced and professional coach
• Demonstrates that you have high professional standards
• Demonstrates that you stand by a strong code of ethics
• Demonstrates a high knowledge and skill level
• Demonstrates that you take on-going professional development seriously
• Develops you as a professional coach – to further enhance your skills
• Brings personal satisfaction - in achieving a career goal
• Brings personal satisfaction - in gaining a credential from the only internationally recognized independent coaching body
• Reinforces the integrity of the coaching profession nationally and internationally
Why is it important to get proper Coach Training?
Currently anyone can call themselves ‘a coach’.
There are many ‘coaches’ operating without any training or real coaching skills.
They simply do whatever they have already been doing and call it coaching.
This includes consultants and mentors who simply tell you what they have done or would do
– without being able to support you in drawing on your own skills and experience and developing your own approach and style.
There are those who put together skills and interventions they have picked up or read about.
This is not to say that some of these ‘coaches’ and ‘coach trainers’ have nothing to offer from their own experience.
But their offering would be much greater if they were trained and grounded in real coaching skills
and could support you in finding a way that really fits and works for you.
...and the market is changing!
The market place is becoming more discerning and looking for evidence of proper training and/or accreditation.
This trend will increase.
There is a likelihood that, as with other professions, legislation will be brought in requiring coaches to belong to a recognized professional body and to have training recognized by the profession.
Clients are becoming more discerning
Client’s expect the Coach to have been properly trained and to have the right skill set.
...and you will be able to market yourself more confidently knowing that you are well trained and practiced in a reliable and tested skill set makes it much easier to market yourself confidently
– whether as a professional coach or in using coaching to support your existing professional or organizational role.
Why should I go for the ICF accredited training?
Amongst the accreditations offered by recognized professional bodies are two distinct types.
The first created by the coaching profession themselves, and based on shared practical experience, are primarily
focused on practice and proficiency in an agreed skill set.
The most rigorous of these is offered by the ICF and Diamond Coaching.
The theory presented is relevant, sufficient and necessary for the practice of coaching – and it is the practice and demonstration of effective and empowering coaching skills that is mainly emphasized and developed. Coaching is an art more than a science and that you do need to acquire relevant, tested and effective coaching models and paradigms – but the greater emphasis is on practicing them in a controlled setting that will prepare you for the real thing.
The second kind of accreditation is more study based and may be endorsed by a university or college.
The draw back with many of these schemes is that they are academic based and, while they measure your
theoretical understanding of coaching, require very little actual practice and evidence of proficiency in the field.
The academic influence can often lead to an over emphasis on theory and study and this often goes with limited ‘live’ training.
Not all university linked training's fall in this camp – but if you are seriously considering a particular training
then you may want to check how much of it is study or theory based and how much is concerned with proficiency and actual practice.
Now is a great time to train as a Coach
What do I need to get a full ACC ICF accreditation?
The ACC requirements are (Portfolio route):
1. 60 documented hours of Coach-Specific Training
2. 2 reference letters from qualified coaches
3. Client Coaching Log Documenting:
(Minimum of 100 hours total including a minimum of 75 paid hours - minimum of 8 clients)
4. Competent participation in ICF's oral examination
5. 10 hours of Mentor coaching (maximum 7 in group)
The Diamond Coaching 6 day fast track training satisfies the requirements of 1 and 2 above. Requirement 5 is covered under Mentor Coaching.
You will get a certificate of completion stating that you have completed the 60 hours of coach specific training and 2 reference letters.
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