what is coaching?
Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. Coaches help people improve their performances and enhance the quality of their lives.
Coaches are trained to listen, to observe and to customize their approach to individual client needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client; they believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach's job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has.
Mandate:
- Create, sustain and preserve the integrity of the coaching profession;
- To stimulate and elevate the standards and professional ethics of coaching;
- To stimulate and develop the Quebec coaching community;
- To maintain and elevate the standards and professional ethics of coaching;
- To support and encourage the members to create an excellent quality of life and maximize the success of their coaching career;
- We respect diversity and welcome the participation of everyone;
- Our approach is one of dialogue, of collaboration, of development and learning;
- We practice an open and honest communication;
- We are committed to be models among our associates and clients;
- We are committed to have fun doing what we do;
- We are always seeking people who consider and represent themselves as coaches;
- We encourage our members to become partners by participating or engaging in the constant evolution of the Quebec International Coach Federation, a section of the International Coach Federation (ICF); Our intention is to offer our members different ways to participate.
- We offer conferences, workshops, role play, news bulletins, group discussions, skills development, networking opportunities, our website, library, reference centre, etc.
