As change agents, we use our skills, experience and training to make a difference within individuals, teams, networks, and organizations. We know what it is like to spend time and effort planning, preparing and debriefing around our client interactions. And we know what it is like to have others invest in us in this same way…or do we?
If not, take heart! Here is your chance! For our September 9th chapter meeting (http://www.icf-chicago.org/meetings-events.cfm?id=121) we will have a special guest speaker that has spent the last five months investing her time, talent and expertise on behalf of ICF Chicago. Abby Whitmore, a change management guru and LEAN practitioner (www.leancoaches.com), has donated 50+ hours on behalf of ICFC this year and will be bringing her expertise to share with you on September 9th.
Here is the short list of what Abby has contributed to the ICF Chicago board this year:
Provided an introduction to LEAN principles and what it means to get rid of leadership "waste"
Introduced the concept of Standard Work and walked us through the process of creating Standard Work for each board role to better eliminate leadership "waste"
Walked us through multiple Goal Setting & Planning sessions that helped us identify ICFC’s breakthrough goals for the next 3 years and practical goals for the next 1 year
Spoke at our August 17 board retreat to both board and committee members to guide us to next steps to implement our goals as a team.
To be a "client" and recipient of such generosity is a breath of fresh air.
As a coaching professional, what are you ready to learn? Pay attention because you teacher may be just around the corner!
Stay tuned for more information on ICFC’s goals and current opportunities to participate with other coaches in making a difference in Chicagoland while advancing your professional skills and network at the September 9th chapter meeting. Don’t miss it!!!
See you on the 9th!!
Wendy Balman, CPCC, ACC
ICF Chicago President
Hope you are taking advantage of ICF Credential news. Our goal is to help you become and maintain ICF credentials and not make it boring. This month I am reproducing some of the credential news directly from the ICF portfolio. It seems interesting.
One more reason to become ICF credentialed sooner than later because starting April 2014, all ICF credential applicants will be required to take a written test. How about that?
Read on…
Coming soon: The Credential Legacy Are you an ICF Credential holder? How would you like to NEVER pay for an ICF Credential renewal application for the life of your ICF Credential? Yes, you read that right! Here's your chance to never pay to renew your ICF Credential again:
Beginning September 16, you will have the opportunity to tell us how the ICF Credential has provided value to you. Select entries will be featured in various marketing initiatives, including a video series.
If 1,500 ICF Credential holders submit a video or text entry, all applicants will receive an ICF t-shirt! The contest will officially close on October 31 and a grand prize winner will be randomly selected to win a lifetime of free ICF Credential renewal applications.
Begin thinking of how you can best share your story and enter the contest next month!
ICF to Add Written Credentialing Exam in April 2014
July 29, 2013
Effective April 1, 2014, all applicants for an ICF Credential, including graduates of ACTPs, will be required to complete the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment. Both Portfolio and ACTP applicants at all three Credentialing levels (ACC, PCC and MCC) will be required to pass the assessment in order to earn an ICF Credential.
The ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment is a multiple-choice, Web-based exam that applicants can take on their home or work computers. The objectively-scored exam includes questions around the ICF definition of coaching, the ICF Core Competencies and the ICF Code of Ethics. It will be offered in the same languages that the ICF allows for oral examinations. The assessment has been administered to MCC applicants and Portfolio-track PCC applicants since early 2013, replacing the essay-type exam used prior to 2013.
Once a Credentialing applicant has passed the ICF Coach Knowledge Assessment, he or she will not be required to take the same assessment again when applying for a different ICF Credential.
This policy change, proposed by the ICF Global Standards Core Team and approved by the ICF Board of Directors at its June 2013 meeting, will help verify that Credential-holders have demonstrated an acceptable understanding of the body of knowledge relevant to professional coaching.
Coaches with questions about this policy change can contact the ICF Credentialing staff at icfcredentialing@coachfederation.org.
Any thoughts, comments and ideas…write to me pastpresident@icf-chicago.org or txt me at 847-612-4244.
Ciao!
