News From ACTO
A YEAR AS ACTO PRESIDENT
By Micki McMillan Reflecting back on the past year as President for the Association of Coach Training Organizations, better known as ACTO, I realize that last minute decisions can turn into lifelong changes and one year is sufficient time to accomplish important goals. My role as President of ACTO unfolded when Joan King had to leave her position as President because her cancer re-occurred. Joan, a woman who had an eminence about her, was once the department [...]
ICF PCC Markers
This blog requests that you engage and offer comments regarding the ICF PCC Markers. Volunteer coaches and staff from ICF have been working on these so that PCC coach candidates receive objective and effective evaluation and assessing for their credential. These markers have implications for the training schools, and to that end ICF is partnering with ACTO to communicate and educate our members at the annual conference in May. Please comment on this blog by [...]
ICF Accreditation Council Update
Happy 2015. I hope your year has begun well, and that 2015 will be a prosperous and generative year for you and your schools. The purpose of this letter is to review a decision that the ICF Global Board made in July 2014 to launch an Accreditation Council. This Council has implications for the future of coach school accreditation, and you should be aware of what it is and why. I asked a small group [...]
How to Strengthen Market Presence for Your Coach Training School
How can you ensure that your school’s certification programs are reaching and engaging your audience? As you know there are hundreds of certification programs available that coaches can review before making their final selection. Every day, new coaches are considering where to attend coach certification training and they’re faced with a dizzying array of training and program options. With hundreds of coaching schools featuring various philosophies, curricula, training formats, and program durations—finding the right program can [...]
The New ICF System of Evidence-based Coach Assessment
By Micki McMillan, MCC This past week, Blue Mesa Group's CEO and ACTO's President Micki McMillan and 19 other coaches from around the world attended the first Professional Coach Certification assessor training through the International Coach Federation. ICF has launched an improved assessment system which enables assessors to objectively determine the competencies of the coach. The inaugural assessor cohort completed the on-site portion of training where they learned the new system of evidence-based assessment. This change in assessment [...]