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The Power of Community
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It is International Coaching Week. It is time to celebrate our global community and to get involved in the conversation from the inside. What's the impact of actively participating in the community of coaches?
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Prime Space Podcast Introduction
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Welcome to Prime Space, a Prime Coaching Academy podcast with your host, Elias Scultori.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Prime Space.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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I so appreciate you being here.
International Coaching Week Significance
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It is International Coaching Week.
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From today, May 13th to May 19th, I believe, the coaching community, the whole coaching community all around the world will be celebrating International Coaching Week.
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And I'm going to read here, I'm going to quote from the ICF website.
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International Coaching Week is a week-long global celebration of the power and impact of professional coaching.
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This celebration encourages individuals and organizations all over the world to understand, explore, test, and discover the possibilities coaching provides.
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I love that description.
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Test.
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I love that word.
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We are experimenting with coaching.
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So this is the week to do so.
Upcoming ICF South Florida Event
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International Coaching Week started in 1999 and we have celebrated it every year since.
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So what is it?
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25 years now of International Coaching Week?
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That's fantastic.
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And you're going to notice that there are lots of events happening today.
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All around the world, hundreds of events happening.
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Every chapter of the ICF, training schools, organizations, individual coaches are creating programs during this wonderful celebration.
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Myself, I am going to be speaking at ICF South Florida tomorrow, Tuesday, May 14th at 5 p.m.
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Eastern,
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And it's a very short session because ICF South Florida is always creating tremendous value and lots of events and lots of things happening for the chapter there.
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So I'll be a small part of the celebration at 5 p.m.
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on May 14th.
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And we are going to be talking about competency number three, establishes and maintains agreements.
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It's just a 45-minute presentation today.
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And it's free.
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So please join us.
Prime Coaching Academy Giveaway
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Also, another celebration that we are doing at Prime Coaching Academy is that Amy and I decided to do a giveaway.
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So if you have already taken a level one program, coach training program elsewhere, you are invited to join that giveaway and we are going to give a full free level two program to a lucky coach.
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So please go to www.primecoachingacademy.com.
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and right on top of the website there is a banner where you can click and you go to the page where you can enter your information to enter this giveaway it's one entry per person there are other prizes over there as well but the giveaway the full uh level one is a major prize there but anyways
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This is just a couple of things that I myself am that I am doing.
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But there are all of these coaches around the world that are doing other celebrations as well.
Community and Collaboration in Coaching
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So pay attention to that.
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It's time for us to celebrate our community in the last 60.
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report that the ICF gave out, they are saying that the ICF right now has 61,244 members all around the world.
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That's a huge community.
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51,723 are credentialed coaches, either at ACC, PCC, or MCC level, in 40
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143 countries around the world.
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This is so beautiful.
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143 chapters in 99 countries.
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Coaching is really a global phenomenon happening right now, and we are so blessed to be a part of this community.
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I say this
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especially during International Coaching Week, because to emphasize the power of community.
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Coaching can be such an isolating profession, even when we work in organizations, even if we work with a team of coaches, or if we are part of a coach training program where you have a little bit more of a group of coaches.
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We have this...
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More than 60,000 coaches around the world, this huge community for us to benefit from, for us to engage, to learn from each other, to see their different perspectives.
Energizing Through Community Engagement
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It's so fundamental that we engage in the conversation and that we don't live in our little cocoons.
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And that's the message of this episode here today.
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How important and how fundamental community is for us as coaches to continue to develop, continue to grow.
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We need to learn from each other.
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We need to learn what are the best practices happening, what is happening in the world of coaching.
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Being inside and just in our little isolated world,
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is actually against the whole premise of coaching.
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Coaching is about communicating, exchanging, growing with another human being, right?
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And therefore, for us coaches, it's imperative that for us to continue to grow, for us to be engaged in community.
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Myself,
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I always say this, that I would not have the practice that I have today.
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I would not be the coach that I have today if it wasn't for my community.
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I can clearly see in my journey to become a professional coach, to become the coach that I am today, I can clearly see the moment that I made a decision that I was going to get involved in.
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that I was going to participate, that I was going to join forces and be more involved in the community.
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That moment, from that moment on how my practice changed, not necessarily because I gained clients.
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But because by going and being involved with other coaches, I got the energy, I got the motivation, I got momentum, I got new ideas.
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There was some sort of an energy, I don't know what other words I can use here, that really made me show up differently for my practice.
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And that propelled me forward, gave me enough of the energy and the momentum to keep going.
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And so that's why I'm such a one of the reasons why I'm such an advocate for us to be involved with community is because of that.
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I truly believe that it is with the energy of the other coaches around us that we are going to be able to support each other.
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and as a community be able to really help each other.
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I do believe that this is not a pie, right?
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That there has just a little bit of a slice for each one.
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The world is resourceful and it is in the collaboration that we are able to support each other and grow.
Importance of Coach-Specific Training
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And I say this, the community is fundamental as well for more reasons than that.
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Not only for our own benefit,
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Individual immediate benefit to our practice, as I mentioned, but I think it's the benefit of the profession.
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Coaching is a self-regulated profession.
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Anyone can one day wake up and say, I'm going to become a coach.
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And it's wonderful.
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There are so many wonderful professionals that have experience, that have know-how, degrees, and so much to give to the community at large, to the world.
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It's wonderful that these individuals want to be coaches.
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However, there is a distinction between a coach and a professionally trained coach.
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Coaching-specific training gives a specific focus on what the coaching process
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processes specifically is it's the distinction between what is to be a coach and what is to be a consultant or a mentor or a teacher or a therapist there is a specific uh framework a specific uh direction that a coach use skills that a coach use that distinguishes a coach from a consultant and from all the other professions and oftentimes
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This very experienced professional that has so much to contribute without knowing that distinction ends up being a consultant, being a mentor, being a teacher, being a therapist, being whatever other profession they are, a facilitator or whatever it is, and calling themselves a coach.
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And that gets messy, right?
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That gets messy because then what are the standards?
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The marketplace becomes confused because, okay, I go to this individual and this individual has a specific process, but I go to this other individual and there has a completely different process, a completely different approach, a completely different mindset.
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So what is coaching?
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So that's why coach training is fundamental, regardless of how many PhDs a person has on the wall, how many years of experience that this person had in that particular field.
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It's so crucial to have coaching specific training.
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So that there is a distinction and that we, when we say we are coaches,
ICF's Role in Setting Standards
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we go to the marketplace and we represent the coaching profession based on standards, professional and ethical standards that this wonderful coaching community has put in place.
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And yes, the ICF is not the end and all of everything, but, you know, I will be talking about the ICF all the time.
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I don't want to be a poster boy for the ICF.
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But right now, of all of the organizations that are out there, coaching organizations, the ICF is by far the most robust organization.
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organization that is really committed to setting those standards and raising the professionalism of our industry and what we do.
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So therefore, it's crucial for us if we want to call ourselves coaches, in my point of view, it's an ethical issue.
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If we want to call ourselves a coach, let's come together.
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And let's set the standards.
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And if we see that there is something that perhaps is coming out of the ICF, it doesn't make sense.
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Let's be in, in the conversation.
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And let's be able to support change and growth.
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We are a young profession and we need everybody to come together so that we can raise the professionalism of what we do and really standardize and support the marketplace to understand it.
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This is for the health care.
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The longevity, the sustainability of our profession.
Getting Involved and Staying Updated
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So it's imperative for us to come together.
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When there is a person that says, I have a certification from the ICF, that means that the person has gone through the paces.
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does not necessarily mean that this person is an excellent coach.
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Just because a person has a medical degree or a law degree does not necessarily mean that that person is an excellent medical doctor or a lawyer.
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Certification does not necessarily mean that this person is an excellent coach.
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But...
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It really brings legitimacy to the process and it really shows the marketplace that at least this person understands and this person is committed to following certain standards, professional and ethical standards.
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There is an accountability behind that.
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So for me, community bottom line here is crucial.
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And I highly encourage all of you to not only join the ICF or join your local chapter, but participate, get into the conversation.
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Be a part of the conversation.
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Be a part of the change.
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And nothing better than start with International Coaching Week, celebrating and testing, testing the community.
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So participate, get involved, volunteer, volunteer to your local chapter.
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Don't only go to an event, but be a part of creating the event.
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Get involved.
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Get involved in your own coach training program.
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Get involved in communities of practice.
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So important and imperative.
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So that's my message for you today.
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And don't forget, everyone, the giveaway for Prime Coaching Academy.
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