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ICF Coaching Certification: Why It Matters for Coaches and Clients

Strategy Driven

Unlike some other certifications, the ICF focuses on coaching competencies, ethics, and professional conduct. Here’s a comparison of why ICF matters for both coaches and clients. Working with coaches who follow best practices and uphold ethical standards ensures consistency, credibility, and effectiveness across all interactions.

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Twin Cities Executive Coaching: A Catalyst for Transformative Leadership

CO2

A study by the Center for Creative Leadership showed that organizations with strong coaching cultures reported higher revenue growth in comparison to their peers. Executive coaching aids in aligning personal values with professional goals, ensuring decisions are not just effective but also ethically sound and socially responsible.

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Motivation: To Do or Not to Do

Leading Blog

In comparison, other people are motivated by moving “toward” things that they want to achieve, accomplish, or attain. They care about “how” and can be so focused on process and details that they may miss the bigger picture or alternative ways of accomplishing goals.

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Use the Right Scorecard

Lead Change Blog

My goal was clean and tidy, not immaculate—a mindset Mom didn’t understand. Social comparison—how we compare ourselves to others in terms of traits, skills, abilities, appearance, opinions, net worth, career, material goods, connections, and achievements. Mom took great pride in her reputation as an excellent housekeeper.

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Having an Old-fashioned Nervous Breakdown Might Be a Good Thing

Michael Lee Stallard

Do you take pride in having a “go-go-go” work ethic? In his article titled “Why White-Collar Workers Spend All Day at the Office,” Derek Thompson of The Atlantic adds this comparison: “If the average American worked as much as the typical German, she’d have about 30 extra days off per year. How productive are you in your job?

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

is on Steve’s team as she carries the ball toward the goal line with Do Feelings Have a Place in Business ? Michael Cardus at Create Learning cultivates some thought with Goal Setting: Solving Problems in Line with Values and Commitment. Jane Perdue of Get Your Leadership Big On! She deserves a game ball for this beautiful play.

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People Don’t Want to Be Compared with Others in Performance Reviews. They Want to Be Compared with Themselves

Harvard Business Review

They also consider it fair when their evaluations are accurate and are conducted based on ethical and moral principles. We call those temporal comparison evaluations. We call those social comparison evaluations. Specifically, employees perceive the fairness of evaluation processes when they feel included and respected.