For Adults

In this “Heart to Heart with Julie” column, Julie Johnson MCC shares sample coaching conversations and situations to help you grow along with her learnings, ideas and practical tips to help us all become better coaches. These are real coaching experiences that illustrate common issues coaches face. We encourage you to share your thoughts, learnings and own experiences in the

In our experience, many of the people who become coaches (and make great ones!) have a natural gift for helping people. They’re often the person their friends and colleagues turn to for guidance and advice, and they love being able to help in a way that makes a difference in people’s lives. But what does it really mean to help

One of the first things many aspiring coaches need to do is “unlearn” what they think coaching is. This is entirely understandable, because coaching shares surface similarities with mentoring, training, consulting, and even therapy. At ICA, we explicitly teach the distinctions between coaching and these other modalities so that students can practice with clarity and professional integrity. In this article,

The confusion between ACC (Associate Certified Coach) and PCC (Professional Certified Coach) credentials is one of the most common roadblocks aspiring coaches face when planning their certification pathway. This post breaks down the requirements, costs, career impact, and strategic considerations for both credentials: so you can make an informed decision aligned with your goals, timeline, and budget. Key Takeaways The

Rethinking what we mean, and what we lose, when we decide a word is bad. “Why is judgement bad?” It”s the kind of question that stops a room, not because it’s provocative, but because most of us have never thought to ask it. We’d been having a coffee conversation in our Pro Community, wandering into the territory of judgement the