Credential HelpDesk by Kam Gupta, ICF Past 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?

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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!