ICF ACC Certification
Core Coaching Competencies

ICF ACC Core Coaching Competencies

Following a carefully designed and mapped curriculum, ICF (International Coach Federation) provides a rigorous practice of coaching through an ICF Coaching Core Competency Model. ICF creates the model after compiling an evidence-based report from more than 1,300 coaches present across the world to define the most wanted and required coaching disciplines, coaching styles, training backgrounds, and experience levels. The model developed after the evidence-based research is critically significant in the current practice of coaching worldwide.

The ICF Core Coaching Competencies include a list of mandatory coaching skills, attitudes, and practices that make a responsible coach. These pay prime focus on: 

• Ethical behavior and confidentiality
• Importance of a coaching mindset
• Significance of ongoing reflective practice
• Criticality of the coach-client partnership 
• Importance of cultural, systemic, and contextual awareness

These act as the foundational components to the practice of coaching as a profession. 

• Foundation: Demonstrates Ethical Practice, Embodies a Coaching Mindset

• Co-Creating the Relationship:Establishes and Maintains Agreements, Cultivates Trust and Safety, Maintains Presence 

• Communicating Effectively:Listens Actively, Evokes Awareness

• Cultivating Learning and Growth: Facilitates Client Growth

ICF ACC Certification – Associate Certified Coach in India 

ICF (International Coach Federation) provides the ICF credentialing through several paths for coaching certifications. Including the ACC designation, which is also called the Associated Certified Coach. The other two levels include the PCC (Professional Certified Coach) and then the MCC (Master Certified Coach). The path begins with the ACC credential that is an attestation about the abilities of the participant as a qualified ICF Associate Certified Coach. 

Associate Certified Coach help candidates prove that they have comprehensively understood the Code of Ethics as laid down by ICF and apply the core competencies to design and plan their client goals. At Coach2Reach India, candidates can receive their credentials through an “Accredited Coach Training Program” (ACTP) that educates and train the participants through the ICF Core Competencies. 

An Associate Certified Coach (ACC) must possess the following skills: 

• Active Listening
• Building Trust
• Communicating Effectively
• Creating Awareness
• Establishing Agreements
• Maintaining Presence
• Meeting Ethical Guidelines
• Partnering With Clients
• Powerful Questioning
• Setting Goals 

ICF ACC Certification

Participants can start their process towards becoming an Associate Certified Coach by enrolling on an Accredited Coach Training Program at Coach2Reach India. The Accredited Coach Training Program at Coach2Reach introduces participants to the required learning and practice of ICF core competencies. It is required for participants to learn all coaching skills, techniques and develop their coaching competencies as they gear up to work with clients who pay. 

The ICF ACC certification training helps the participants master the following traits: 

• Help clients focus on their goals
• Understand problems of the clients in reaching goals
• Map a plan to suggest the next steps
• Follow a problem-solving approach
• Apply 8 Coaching Competencies
• Become compassionate listeners 

ICF ACC Credential

Coach2Reach India helps participants pursue and complete their training with practical and real-world simulations to help achieve the ICF ACC credential. Participants profit from the following conditions as a part of the ICF-ACC process to gain the credential:

• Needed hours of coaching training by ICF
• Demanded hours of mentor coaching (Group Mentoring and One-to-One Mentoring)
• The certification training qualifies people for the CKA (Coach Knowledge Assessment)

As a part of the accredited Coaching Training Program for receiving the ICF-ACC certification, Coach2Reach India also helps participants prepare for the Coach Knowledge Assessment (CKA) through virtual classes with the help of a Performance Evaluation test.