ICF competencies
Coaching topics
PCC Markers
100

Understands and consistently applies coaching ethics and standards of coaching

What is Demonstrates Ethical Practice?

100

Closed, leading, solution-oriented, or rhetorical 

What are question asking mistakes?

100

Coach partners with the client to define or reconfirm measure(s) of success for what the client wants to accomplish in this session.

What is Establishes and Maintains Agreements?

200

Partners with the client to create a safe, supportive environment that allows the client to share freely. Maintains a relationship of mutual respect and trust.

What is Cultivates Trust and Safety?

200

Health coaching, leadership coaching, career coaching

What are coaching niches?

200

Coach shows support, empathy or concern for the client.


What is Cultivates Trust and Safety?

300

Partners with the client to transform learning and insight into action. Promotes client autonomy in the coaching process.

What is Faciliates Client Growth?

300

Level 1 – Internal Listening

Level 2 – Focused Listening

Level 3 – Global Listening

What are the levels of listening?

300

Coach shares—with no attachment—observations, intuitions, comments, thoughts or feelings, and invites the client’s exploration through verbal or tonal invitation.

What is Evokes Awareness?

400

Focuses on what the client is and is not saying to fully understand what is being communicated in the context of the client systems and to support client self-expression

What is Listens Actively?

400

People are naturally creative, resourceful, and whole (NCRW)

Dance in this moment

Focus on the whole person

Evoke transformation

What are the Co-Active Cornerstones?

400

Coach invites or allows the client to explore progress toward what the client wanted to accomplish in this session.

What is Faciliates Client Growth?

500

Facilitates client insight and learning by using tools and techniques such as powerful questioning, silence, metaphor or analogy

What is Evokes Awareness?

500
  • Personal risk

  • Impact the client

  • Reputation of the profession

  • Impact to society

What is the importance of ethics?

500

Coach acts in response to the whole person of the client (the who).

What is Maintains Presence?