The IIC is an independent Professional Coaching Body which is made up of professional coaches and coaching organisations, working with International Standards and Ethics. The skill sets, competencies, standards and ethics defined for the IIC are designed by mutual agreement between coaches from across the world. These coaches have made the commitment to design, build and maintain the highest standards you would expect in any profession.

Coaching has its own unique set of skills. As coaching is not yet a regulated industry there are many individuals and organisations representing themselves as coaches or coaching organisations - some of these are individuals who are calling themselves coaches without any formal coach training. In these cases they may be transferring their skills from other professions into their coaching. Coaches often have to 'unlearn' old skills from their previous professions before they can competently learn the skills required for to be an effective coach. Therefore selecting to work with a coach who has no formal coach training, may result in an inadequate or in-effective coaching experience for you.

So if you are considering hiring a coach, as you will see from the 'how to hire a coach' details one of the questions you should ask is what coach specific training they have had and what accreditation level they have achieved? Deciding whether a coach is competent cannot be defined by the fees that they charge or by non-coach specific training.

To understand the differences in Accreditation levels, we have provided a summary of the accreditation requirements below:

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