Why Pursue an ICF Credential?
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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 three ICF credentials: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and Master Certified Coach (MCC). Each credential requires a specific set of required hours of coach-specific training and coaching experience.
Benefits of an 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
- Reinforces the integrity of the coaching profession nationally and internationally
Definitions, Categories & Key Terms
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Associate Certified Coach (ACC) -
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First level of credential for a Professional Coach.
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Professional Certified Coach (PCC) -
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Second level of credential for a Professional Coach.
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Master Certified Coach (MCC) -
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Advanced level of credential for a Professional Coach.
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Coach Specific Training -
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Coach Specific Training is training that is predominantly marketed as teaching coaching skills and not something else and where the major emphasis is on coaching skills or applying technical skills as a coach and in a manner consistent with the ICF core competencies.
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Client Coaching Hours -
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For purposes of individual credentialing for ACC, PCC and MCC, a client coaching hour is 60 minutes coaching time with a person who has hired you as a coach, with whom you have a formal coaching agreement, and who you coach rather than providing any other service such as consulting or therapy. If you perform coaching and other services for a client, you may only count the actual time spent coaching toward certification. You may not count time providing other services.
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