February 2006
Monthly Archive
Tue 28 Feb 2006
My friend Claudette (hesdeadjim blog) posted a link to this site on her blog.
Johari Windows are fascinating. They help us understand what we know and don’t know about ourselves. Perhaps the first form of a 360 assessment. The Johari Window is a four quadrant diagram describing aspects of person known and unknown. On one axis is whether it is known or unknown and on the other access is who knows or doesn’t (self or others). So you end up with the following pairings: known by both self(you) and others; known by self(you) but not others; known by others by not by self (you); and not known by either self (you) or by others.
Doing a Johari Window can be quite revealing to oneself and to others who participate.
If you would like to contribute to my Johari Window click here after you are done you can follow a link to see how the window is shaping up and/or create your own window to invite feedback. http://kevan.org/johari?name=MatthewRochte
Tue 21 Feb 2006
I saw the following message on a church I drive by frequently and it sums it all up.
Friendship doubles our happiness and divides our grief
My 2006 Mission has been and continues to be to build stronger and deeper friendship.
Go beyond the casual acquaintance and business network, but go deeper. Who are you? What is important to you? What’s happening in your life? How can we help each other outside our normal networking roles?
Be bold, build friendships - not networks!
Tue 14 Feb 2006
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Wanna free Wiki that is easy as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, well you are in luck there is such a thing. pbwiki (peanut butter wiki)
I found this interesting little tool through Morgana Rae and her Financial Alchemy program.
Tue 7 Feb 2006
Alphabet Soup Cheatsheet
Governing Bodies:
ICF International Coach Federation(1996)
WABC-Worldwide Association of Business Coaches founded in 1997
IAC International Assoc of Coaches(2002)
ECI European Coaching Institute
PCMA-Professional Coaches & Mentors Association
AC – Association of Coaches UK
(For a detailed list check out
Peer Resources’ extensive list)
ACTO – Association of Coach Training Organizations (CTI, Coach Inc, Newfield, Hudson, TopHuman, SUN, ACT, etc)
ACTP-Accredited Coach Training Program standards created by ICF&ACTO in 1999
Schools:
ACTP Progams
CTI - The Coach Training Institute
CoachU - Coach U (owned by Coach Inc.)
CCUI - Corporate Coach U International (created by CoachWorks owned by Coach Inc.)
Hudson, ACT, SUN, Newfield, Adler, TopHuman, etc. are all ACTP coach training schools.
Non-ACTP Programs
Coachville - coaching community created by Thomas Leonard now run by Dave Buck.
GSC- Graduate School of Coaching, schools created from Coachville - not ACTP though probably the largest coaching school in the western world.
- Most University programs
Currently there are more than 200 such programs - for an extensive and yet not exhaustive list see Peer Resources
Mon 6 Feb 2006
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[as published in Minnesota Coaches Association Catalyst Newsletter February 2006]
To view the article in it native format click here
Coaching Pundit’s Corner
Using History to Bring Clarity to Coaching Certification (part 1)
Coaching Certification, frankly, is a messy subject. Traditionally certification used to be a clear method of credentialing and legitimizing a profession. Today, however, it is also a marketing tool, a branding tool, and a source of a lot of confusion. This series will be part history lesson. In so doing I hope to bring clarity to the confusion around certification, so bare with me. Sadly, in order to have any discussion on this subject it is hard to avoid the alphabet soup. I have included a cheat sheet. (see next blog entry)
First of all we need to distinguish who is doing the certifying. Governing bodies certify coaches. Schools certify coaches too. In reality any program can issue a certificate and state you are certified.
Lets look at the governing / credentialling organizations. The four largest of these are the ICF, WABC, ECI and IAC. These organizations could be thought of like the AMA for medicine or the APA for psychology. Instead of one, however, we have at least four. They each set standards for credentials, ethics, and membership for the coaching industry. This creates confusion.
There have been attempts to alleviate the confusion. For a long time coach training schools all acted independently, and the majority still do. However in 1999 a coalition was formed called ACTO. ACTO member schools include CTI, CoachU, Hudson, ACT, SUN,and New Ventures West, Newfield, Adler and several others. Students and graduates of the ACTO schools represent the majority of the ICF membership. In the same year ICF & ACTO created the ACTP standard for coach training. The ACTP standard has become the benchmark for ICF certification. (Note: There are literally hundreds of schools that do not adhere to this standard.)
For most ACTP schools, their ACTP qualified program is the “certified graduate” program that their school offers. CPCC (certified professional co-active coach) is such an example. CTI’s CPCC designation is both a credential as well as a brand. CPCC means that you are a certified graduate of CTI and have gone through the certification program which is CTI’s ACTP accredited program. Coach Inc.’s (CoachU & CCUI) approach integrates ACTP material throughout their coursework. Be careful when someone says they are “certified” or a “graduate” since they don’t mean the same things everywhere. When someone says they are CoachU graduate but not certified, they actually have had more training (175+hrs) than CTI grads (100+hrs). When the CTI student completes CTI’s certification program their experience levels out.
I am not saying one is better than the other. What I am saying is most of this talk about certification and graduation is about branding and marketing. All the ACTP schools cover the same core material each with its own style. Who certifies the certifiers? What are they actually measuring? What if the core concept is wrong? What about those other non ACTP schools? These topics and more will be explored next month.
Matthew Rochte - Seasoned Coaches’ Coach & Coaching Pundit.
Matthew is a 15year coaching veteran cross trained through CoachU, CCUI, CTI, and others. http://www.matthewrochte.com
Copyright 2006 Matthew Rochte