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Coaching Researchers Join the Drive to Collaborate
2010: Coaching’s Year of Collaboration?
In February, we told you about the cooperation taking root between coaching’s dominant associations, with the ICF, IAC, WABC and EMCC all putting cooperation and collaboration among their top priorities in the new year.
Now, add coaching researchers to that list.
“We’ve just begun the journey,” said Kerryn ... Read More
March 1, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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ICF’s D’Alessio: Restoring Trust Is Top Priority
The ICF’s message to its member coaches: we hear you—all of you. “I’ve received incredibly good feedback,” said Giovanna D’Alessio, the ICF’s president. “It was a really good gift for us.”
The gift—delivered in person and in blunt fashion at the ICF’s annual conference in Orlando last December—involved not just the ... Read More
February 19, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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IAC Hosts First of its Kind Coaching Conference in China
At first, the pitch—an “excellent opportunity for you to meet about 100 attendees…for innovative and collaborative exchange and learning”—doesn’t exactly jump off the page.
But the title—and the location—does.
Next month, coaches will gather for a noteworthy event, the “2010 Shanghai Coaching Conference: the Centre of Coaching in China—Advancing to International Excellence.”
“I ... Read More
February 17, 2010 | Mark Joyella | No Comments »
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ICF’s D’Alessio Promises “A New Beginning”
After months of divisive debate, a decision.
And some coaches believe, a distinctly new approach.
The ICF president, Giovanna D'Alessio, writing on the ICF blog that there would be no rush to replace the three-tiered credentialing system at the center of debate. "We acknowledge that all the input received helped us realize ... Read More
February 5, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 3 Comments »
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ICF to Keep 3-Tiered Credentialing System; ISO to Be “Revisited”
The single-credential concept is off the table--for now.
In a message posted on the International Coach Federation's blog, ICF president Giovanna D'Alessio writes "the decision of the Board is to keep the existing 3-tier credentialing system in place until January 2012." The decision follows months of discussion and debate and a ... Read More
February 2, 2010 | Mark Joyella | No Comments »
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Taming the “Wild West” and the Drive to Regulate Coaching in Israel
Here’s a pitch you don’t see every day: two life coaches in New Zealand who say right up front (tongue planted deeply in cheek) that they hate life coaching: “Is it us, or is everyone calling themselves a ‘life coach’ these days? Talk about the Wild West,” write coaches Phil ... Read More
January 15, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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What’s Next for ICF Coaches Take a Stand?
An effort that began with an impromptu series of phone calls last September--and led to a lively luncheon at the ICF conference in Orlando--now stands at a crossroads.
With over 700 signatures on an online petition that urged a "collaborative, open" debate on the ICF's plans for revising its credentialing ... Read More
January 10, 2010 | Mark Joyella | 12 Comments »
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Research: Coaching and Emotions (The Client’s and the Coach’s)
As a coach, how do you handle your client's emotions? And for that matter, how do you handle your own?
Researcher Katina Cremona set out to investigate these questions, and what she learned about coaching and emotions may ultimately have an impact in the way coaches do their work.
"The study findings...emphasized ... Read More
December 30, 2009 | Mark Joyella | 1 Comment »
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Update from ICF Coaches Take A Stand
ICF Coaches Take A Stand has been looking to its future and collecting options. The options that have come in are just that: options. At this point, options have only been identified - not assessed, researched, evaluated, or assigned leaders.
Thus far, the options fall into three key areas:
1. Continue efforts to ... Read More
December 24, 2009 | Susan Klein | 6 Comments »
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ICF Foundation Expands Efforts to Support Pro Bono Coaching
For the first time, the non-profit arm of the International Coach Federation, the ICF Foundation, will accept applications for grants to support pro bono coaching efforts--specifically in the area of education.
"We look forward to the response we will receive from coaches in the non-profit sector who are making a real ... Read More
December 22, 2009 | Mark Joyella | 3 Comments »
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