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5 Steps to Identify Your Niche

How many times have you received the advice to “niche down” or “find your niche” or “identify your target audience.” Some even recommend getting so specific that you can craft…

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6 Thinking Hats – A Great Coaching Framework

Coaching may seem like a structured process from the outside, but coaches know that when we are in the middle of a session, we need to be spontaneous and willing…

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5 Tips for Leveraging Your Personal Blog to Earn Media Coverage

Blogging is a great way to share your personal ideas, client testimonials, information or updates about the coaching profession and more. The value of your blog goes well beyond simply…

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Guide for Coaches with Millennial Clients

Millennials are individuals who were born approximately between 1981 and 1996. Considerable research has been conducted to study and gain further insight into this particular generation. Despite what we know…

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A Deep Look at Diversity in the Coaching Industry

What made me stand out was my Black skin. This was the defining variable, and I was reminded of it regularly. I’ve always appreciated diversity in all its various forms,…

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How to Create Powerful Chemistry Coaching Calls

Chemistry calls are one powerful way coaches can have a strategic session with a potential client to help frame what the coaching session will look like. It helps the coach…

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Why the ICF Core Competencies are Essential Building Blocks to Enable True Collaboration

Since 2009, we’ve been collaborating regularly; running coaching and training programs, presenting webinars and of course, co-writing blogs—though we sometimes fight over who gets to hold the pen. We’ve experienced…

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Enhancing Growth Through the Stories We Tell

Nicole was on the fast track. Her role as a marketing vice president at a global medical device company required her to be adept at cross-functional relationship building. Her manager…

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ICF Professional Coaches Board Bylaws

ICF Professional Coaches bylaws outlines the governance, structure and regulations guiding the professional coaches within the International Coaching Federation

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Coaching for Change

Changes in our lives and work are often unexpected and sometimes planned. In either case, success depends on the ability to generate behavioral shifts that will maximize the positive benefits…

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