Coaching accreditation isn't a one-off. Here's what keeping it actually takes.

Getting accredited is only the start. An ICF credential isn't a certificate you frame and forget. Every three years it has to be renewed, with 40 hours of continuing coach education, including mandatory ethics, mentor coaching, supervision, and ongoing learning.

In other words, you have to keep proving you're still good at this, and still doing it properly.

In part two I explain why that matters when you're hiring a coach, and share something I'm proud of from my four years on the UK ICF board: helping change global ICF policy so maternity and parental leave are recognised as extenuating circumstances for renewal. Standards should be rigorous, and they should also be humane.

Plus two questions worth asking any coach: when did you last renew, and what have you been learning lately?

Read the full blog here on my Substack.

Missed the first part of this series where I outlined what on earth coaching qualifications actually mean? Read it here.

If you’re ready to work with a credentialed ICF PCC coach, get in touch here.