Research
As the awareness of professional coaching continues to grow globally, the 2022 ICF Global Consumer Awareness Study – ICF’s latest and largest consumer study yet – provides insights into consumers’ perceptions and motivations. During this webinar, you will explore the findings from this study commissioned by ICF and conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Last week the world’s most influential voices gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the 2024 World Economic Forum, an event that invites us to explore the issues and challenges facing global…
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When I first started practicing as a coach five years ago, I already had an established mindfulness practice but it took some time before I felt I could emerge from…
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It has been more than 20 years since Martin Seligman formally launched Positive Psychology (the science of human flourishing) in 1998 as a way to move away from the perception…
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“The science of psychology has been more successful on the negative than on the positive side … It has been revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illness, his sins, but…
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The brain is acutely and instinctively resistant to change, which is interpreted as a threat because it is different from what the brain was expecting. It sends an error-detection signal…
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My client, Sarah, hasn’t made any progress in our six weeks of coaching. She still has low self-esteem. She’s still very critical of herself, and she may be depressed. In…
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My client grasps wildly for options, finding each insufficient. I stand back holding space, ready to support and willing to encourage. Amazingly, she reached this state about half an hour…
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As someone who knows a lot about individual’s behavior change and organizational systems changes, I sometimes feel like an imposter. Over the past three years, I’ve researched, published and designed…
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Surveys are one of the most commonly used methods to determine a client’s needs and expectations prior to coaching, and they can also be used to monitor and assess progress…
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