2021 Live Quarterly Credentialing Q&A Calls

ICF Credentials and Standards and ICF Professional Coaches have partnered to create an informative pre-recorded Credentialing Informational Video for you to view at your convenience, along with a series of Quarterly Q&A Calls to answer all your follow up questions.  To attend a Live Quarterly Q&A call, we ask that you register using one of the links below. Once you …read more.
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Celebrate Global Giving Tuesday on November 30

In honor of Global Giving Tuesday on November 30, 2021, we invite you to join the ICF Foundation, and help make a difference for humanity and the planet.    You can get involved by:   Making a philanthropic gift to the ICF Foundation to help support this important work   Spreading the word about the ICF Foundation and the …read more.
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Key Factors to Build, Expand and Sustain Your Coaching Business 

When building a successful business, there are many essential components that are indispensable, including the following:  Marketing and sales – creating brand awareness and demands   Product or service development and delivery – creating and sharing our values to clients   Accounting and finance – a backbone of the business to support its stability and growth, etc.   In this article, I will focus mainly on the component of marketing and sales based on direct experiences in …read more.
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The Answer

I learned to dream by reading fairy tales. I cannot remember the exact tale, the hero, nor the villain, but I do recall understanding that darkness, uncertainty, and a seemingly insurmountable task would vanish with the insight, curiosity or action discovered in the answer. Sometimes the answer was delivered by the fairy godmother, the handsome prince, or the ugly …read more.
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Tips for Coaching Introverts 

Unfriendly. Aloof. Quiet. Awkward.  Many introverts have heard these words all their lives. From childhood, many quiet, reserved kids are encouraged to change — to become more animated, more outgoing, more raucous, more… extroverted.  In one of the most popular Ted Talks of all time, “The Power of Introverts,” author and speaker Susan Cain described her …read more.
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Coaching Questions to Activate Strengths in Groups and Teams | by Jennifer Britton PCC

Originally Posted on The Coaching Tools Company as Coaching Questions to Activate Strengths in Groups and Teams | by Jennifer Britton PCC Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems. Gever Tulley The power of strengths In times of disruption, change and transition, strengths are an important…

Is Coaching a Serious Business?

If you think coaching is a business to be conducted seriously and devoid of humor, read on – you might be right, humor is serious business!   When I started my career as a coach, I was asked this question multiple times: “Now that you are a coach…it must be a serious thing?” However, for an individual with humor and laughter …read more.
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Languages in the Member Update

To make the Member Update more accessible to all ICF Members, each article now contains a “Member News” link where the information can be easily translated into any language using Google Translate. To do so, just click the “Read in Member News” link under each article. Once on the ICF website, scroll to the bottom …read more.
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