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A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO

ICF

CERTIFICATION

Become a Coach the ICF Way

FROM ‘A COACH’ TO AN 'ICF

CERTIFIED COACH’

Experience by Subash CV

A lot of people ask me how I landed up in Coaching, after spending two decades in the corporate world.

A friend actually commented one-to-one on LinkedIn, ‘I am intrigued by your professional journey. What exactly do you do?’ I responded in a lighter vein, ‘I was trying to discover it myself’ and also promised a blog post on the topic.

Grateful to him for raising the query & thus giving me the inspiration for a blog post. That post has now evolved into this e-book, as I continue my learning journey from

'Becoming a Coach' to 'Being a Coach'

REVELATION #1

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR. .

DON'T CALL YOURSELF A COACH;

UNLESS TRAINED

QUACK OR A CREDIBLE DOCTOR???

I HAD A CHOICE...

After spending 21 years in BFSI Industry in India -

covering the south, central, north & western part of the country, and successful tenure in the Middle East, I decided to head back home to pursue my dream.

To cut long story short

I DECIDED TO BECOME A COACH.

But when I looked around, I realized there were many self-proclaimed coaches! Not trained, but calling themselves thus, based on their own professional and personal experience.

I decided I will not do that I will not impose myself as a coach on others. I would rather take the difficult route of learning the science of coaching, maybe enhance it to an 'art-level' and then correctly hit the market. I decided again, but this time; I DECIDED TO BECOME AN ICF

CERTIFIED COACH

Below is a video case story of Kentaro Hayashi and how ICF

certification brought a monumental shift in his life to give an Ahaa moment to his coachees!!!

Click here to watch the story

of Kentaro Hayashi

REVELATION #2

START FROM THE KNOWN. .

I started inquiring about coach training and certifications, later ‘credentials’ from my inner circle. I wasn't aware then that all these meant different things. I reached out to my friends in HR/ L&D/

Training, sought their opinion and advice.

Thanks to them, I was guided to “ICF”

ICF always meant ‘integral coach factory’ in Chennai. But now, it bore another meaning for me - International Coaching Federation.

Comes the end of 2012, after six months’ sabbatical, I started my coaching-certification journey for ICF Credentials.

Personally, it was a new experience, to go through the rigor of training to become a coach. For first time, I would get up late night & attend tele-classes (ICA), apart from attending F2F sessions.

I would joke if I had been half-studious in my school/college days, I would have been elsewhere!

But then, no regrets.

The beauty of this

learning was it was all

practical, relevant, and

something I could use in

my coaching practice.

Most importantly it was

to facilitate a genuine,

positive transformation

for the willing/ready

coachees.

The journey was more

than 'CERTIFICATION'

WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL

COACHING FEDERATION (ICF)

Thomas Leonard, one of the pioneers in Coaching,

UNLIKE OTHER

PROFESSIONS,

started ICF in 1995 as a

COACHING IS NOT

nonprofit organization for

REGULATED

coaches around the world,

ANYWHERE IN THE

to support each other and

WORLD.

grow the profession.

HENCE THE NEED

TO SELF-REGULATE

With the support of

AND MAINTAIN THE

volunteers and growing

GOLD STANDARD IN

interest, ICF began its

THE INDUSTRY

efforts to raise the profile

of professional coaching.

ICF created Core Competencies and built a Code of Ethics, setting the standard in the coaching field.

An Ethical Conduct Review Process and Independent Review Board (IRB) were also established which allows consumers to file breach-of-ethics complaints. ICF’s obsession with ethics is one of the things I admire the most about it.

ICF also defined curriculum standards (accreditation) to ensure consistency in coach training, and developed an ICF Credentialing system, requiring renewal every three years. Renewal through CCEU is again one of the best practices…

ICF DEFINES COACHING AS...

PARTNERING WITH CLIENTS IN

A CREATIVE AND THOUGHT-

PROVOKING PROCESS THAT INSPIRES

THEM TO MAXIMIZE THEIR PERSONAL

AND PROFESSIONAL POTENTIAL.

WHAT IS ICF

Associate Certified

Coach (ACC)

CERTIFICATION

The ICF has lead the

evolution of

Professional

professional coaching

Certified Coach

for over two decades

(PCC)

now and provides three

ICF credentials

Master Certified

Coach (MCC)

25+ YEARS OF PROFESSIONALISM

ICF is now 25+ years old and has 35,000+ ICF

credentialed coaches worldwide, each of whom have participated in at least one of these coaching credentialing journey, thereby chiseling their coaching skills and professional fulfillment. The ICF credential stands for knowledge, accountability, and a strong ethical code when it comes to professional-level coaching.

The various holders of ICF credentials have completed rigorous training and practice requirements which stand as “testimony to their commitment to excellence in coaching.”

REVELATION #3

WHY ICF CERTIFICATION

ICF NOT ONLY ADDED ROBUSTNESS TO THE

PROFESSION AND PRACTICE OF COACHING, BUT IT HAS ALSO BECOME THE MOST

ACCEPTED BRAND OF GLOBAL STANDING

ICF certification program fulfills the following important purposes:

Protects the rights and interests of the consumers of ICF Coaching, thereby preventing them from unnecessary exploitation.

Measures and certifies the coaching-related potential of an individual.

Provides credibility to a coach and ensures that (s)he operates in a certain ethical domain.

Inspires the various certification holders to strive for excellence and proactive development.

Forges an international community of coaches wherein all the members learn through their personal and vicarious experiences.

ICF’s very raison d’etre is to create positive changes and achieve extraordinary results for/by/of the client, with the support of a coach.

A coach helps the client to move from the current phase to a more resourceful state.

As human beings, we are uniquely placed to achieve extraordinary results. But it is our reluctance, resistance, and self-limiting beliefs that prevent us from being in a more resourceful state.

We are already there. We just got to be reminded, believe & operate from that space. A trained, credentialed & experienced coach can do it, with humility and detachment.

ICF - FACT FILE

34,823

119

130

Coaches trained Countries have

ICF Chapters

as on 2021

ICF credetialed

across the

coaches

globe

F O R M O S T O F U S , C O A C H I N G H A S B E E N A T R A N S F O R M A T I O N A L

E X P E R I E N C E

T H A T

D R A M A T I C A L L Y I M P R O V E D O U R O U T L O O K

T O W A R D S

W O R K

A N D

L I F E

W H I L E

E N H A N C I N G L E A D E R S H I P S K I L L S . C O A C H I N G

H E L P S

U S

T A P

I N T O

O U R

P O T E N T I A L ,

U N L O C K I N G S O U R C E S O F C R E A T I V I T Y A N D

P R O D U C T I V I T Y

ICF supports the coaching

fraternity with extensive

research.

According to ICF Global

Coaching Client Study

(2009), over 70% of

respondents reported

positive outcomes from

coaching. It resulted in

impacting each of the

areas such as self-

confidence, relationships,

communication skills,

work performance, etc.

REVELATION #4

HOW CAN YOU GET

ICF CERTIFICATION

ICF APPROVES PROGRAMS (ACSTH) THAT

DELIVER COACH TRAINING. ICF DOES NOT

OFFER COACH TRAINING DIRECTLY.

ICF COACH TRAINING ENSURES ITS CURRICULUM

ALIGNS WITH THEIR OWN DEFINITION OF COACHING, CORE COMPETENCIES AND CODE OF ETHICS.

BY OPTING FOR ICF-APPROVED COACH TRAINING, THE

ASPIRANT CAN BE CONFIDENT OF HIGH-QUALITY

TRAINING.

ADDITIONAL ICF CREDENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

To complete the ICF credential process, participants must submit the following to ICF online: ACSTH certificate

Coaching experience hours log and verification Recording of a Coaching Conversation with transcript An online CKA test wil be conducted by ICF after completing these above mentioned requirements

IT IS A HUGE BLESSING TO BE AN ICF

CREDENTIALED COACH. IT COMES WITH

THE RESPONSIBILITY TOO.

FOR, ICF PLACES HIGHEST STANDARDS

IN ETHICS & PRACTICE OF COACHING

Regal Stories of our Alumni-Coaches The Regal Unlimited coach

training experience is wonderful.

It is definitely a transformational journey for me. I started using

coaching skills in my daily life and started seeing results. The

kind of support we get from

Regal Unlimited for ICF

credential is amazing.

Madhu Gade - ICF (ACC)

Choosing Regal Unlimited for this beautiful journey of Coaching has been one of my best decisions. .It was a smooth transition and having a well developed class and assignment structure had given me a better understanding of Coaching and lots of moments of self-transformation. Coach - Mentors have really evoked us leading self-introspection so as to make us good and ethical coaches for future.Thank you for making me the part of Regal Community. I really met wonderful people in this journey and was able to make deep relationships with them.

Anupreet Vig - ICF (ACC)

ALL OF OUR COACHES HAVE WITNESSED A DRAMATIC

Listen from our alumni-

SHIFT IN THEIR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL

coaches here

POTENTIAL DURING THE COACH-TRAINING JOURNEY.

Testimonials

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CERTIFIED & ICF

CREDENTIALED COACH.

MASTER THE ART,

SCIENCE & PRACTICE

OF COACHING WITH US.

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