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“MAKATAO” LEADS FILIPINO LEADERS

“MAKATAO” LEADS FILIPINO LEADERS

How does “Makatao” Leadership look like for you? What meaningful difference will “Makatao” Leadership brings to you and your team? For me, “Makatao” Leadership is about the practice of leaders…

Working with a Life Coach : Don’t Wait Until a Crisis

Working with a Life Coach : Don’t Wait Until a Crisis

For many years, successful individuals have relied on the guidance of life coaches.  Yet many still feel uncertain about seeking their services. A life coach can assist in determining your…

Why Life Coaching Works for ADHD

Why Life Coaching Works for ADHD

We live in an age where workplaces are becoming more inclusive and sensitive to a more neurodivergent reality. The increase of awareness also brings with it niches in our ever-evolving life coaching…

Three Leadership Beliefs I Changed my Mind About (and how neuroscience helped me get there)

Three Leadership Beliefs I Changed my Mind About (and how neuroscience helped me get there)

When did you last change your mind about something? Maybe this morning, when you decided to wear a different shirt. Maybe yesterday, when someone convinced you that pineapple on pizza…

Democratizing Coaching in the Workplace

Democratizing Coaching in the Workplace

The way professional coaching is perceived and experienced in the workplace has significantly changed in the last decade.  It used to be an intervention reserved for either top leaders working…

Coaching Leadership in Organizations

Coaching Leadership in Organizations

Time and again, I would often come across this kind of leader – the frazzled and frustrated type who feels the whole building will collapse if he loses focus for…

Narrative Identity: How Coaches Can Help Clients Shape Their Stories

Narrative Identity: How Coaches Can Help Clients Shape Their Stories

As a coach, one of my practices is to review the coaching relationship with the client and ask for  feedback at the end to see if there’s anything I can…

What Does It Take To Be A Leader As Coach?

What Does It Take To Be A Leader As Coach?

As an activity in one of our Coaching Conversation Workshops, we asked groups of participants to illustrate how they were with their company’s current coaching practice, alongside how they would…

President’s Message 092022

President’s Message 092022

As we look back at the past 12 months, you might have noticed that it was a great time to have been a member of ICF. We can see that…

ICF Philippines Honors APEC Schools in its First Prism Awards Night

ICF Philippines Honors APEC Schools in its First Prism Awards Night

The International Coaching Federation Philippines (ICFP) Charter Chapter recently honored three organizations at their first PRISM Award virtual ceremony. The PRISM Award originated in Toronto, Canada and has since been…

Light Bulb Moments: On finding my niche and more

Light Bulb Moments: On finding my niche and more

by Matthew Sy Co-founder of What Really MattersLife Coach & Program Designer under Haraya CoachingPositive Psychology Practitioner “I used to be the type of coach who feared having a niche…

Three’s Company: ICFP Launches Its First Global Coaching Triad

Three’s Company: ICFP Launches Its First Global Coaching Triad

By Dennis Montecillo, ACC In February, ICF Philippines, in conjunction with sister chapters in South Africa and Nigeria, completed its first global coaching triad sessions. A brainchild of the Professional…

Lightbulb Moments – Team Coaching

Lightbulb Moments – Team Coaching

Last March 30, ICF Philippines hosted a session “What You Need to Know About Team Coaching”. Here’s what one of our participants shared as her key takeaway from the session.…

Reflections on Actualizing My Highest and My Best

Reflections on Actualizing My Highest and My Best

By Nikka Santos, Leadership and Career Coach and Creator of The Future Leaders Program “The meaning you give is the instinct you will live.” For me, that distills what we do for…

Why do we coach?

Why do we coach?

by Bing Matoto Her mantra succinctly captures the value of coaching: Coaching good leaders to become great coaches, because great leaders lead great teams. I am very passionate about coaching,…

4 Key Takeaways from CONVERGE21

4 Key Takeaways from CONVERGE21

The ICF CONVERGE21 is a bi-annual coaching summit that brings the global coaching community together to learn, grow, connect, lead and inspire together. In this year’s CONVERGE21, here are 4…

Internal Coaching Practices

Internal Coaching Practices

Coaching appears to be moving further down in the organization to encompass more groups, including new hires, cohort learning groups, sales groups, employees at key transition points such as first-time…

10 Popular Coaching Niches

10 Popular Coaching Niches

Niche coaching will be even more in demand in 2022 and beyond. Here are 10 popular coaching niches you might want to consider to specialize and include in your coaching…

8 Common Coaching Trends

8 Common Coaching Trends

Reviewing the different articles on coaching trends that will shape the future, we have identified 8 common coaching trends that are noteworthy to consider: Virtual coaching will continue to soar…

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How coaching influenced my perspective

Being coached was just like a casual conversation with a friend. Coach Jennie asked questions about me and how I was feeling. It felt so natural that I unconsciously just talked and shared my problems and experiences