How Can the Skills and Competencies of Professional Coaching be Useful to Our Work as Career Coaches? MP4 Video Consortium for Healthcare Education Online Career Coach Professional Development Webinar April 28, 2014

Cynthia Loy Darst delivered a professional development webinar on April 28, 2014 to Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) career coaches on the International Coach Federation (ICF) Core Competencies and how these competencies relate to situations career coaches may experience. Cynthia has been training people in the skills of professional coaching since 1994. She uses the Core Competencies of the ICF to expand coaching knowledge through discussion of new ideas and ways of working with those being coached. STAACCCT career coaches sent information in advance of the webinar providing reflections that they were willing to share with their colleagues on one or more of the questions below. She used that feedback to dialogue with them, talking about observations and experiences. 1) As you read through the ICF Core Competencies, what is your sense of the difference between a Consultant and a Coach? 2) Which of these Competencies do you already do well? 3) When you think of the people that you work with - what skills or competencies challenge you? 4) We will be talking about challenging coaching situations. Do you have one that you would like for us to talk about during the webinar? If so, what is the basic situation? 5) How do you support your students in finding a truly fulfilling career path versus just getting a job? The ICF eleven Core Coaching Competencies were sent out in advance (see http://www.coachfederation.org/icfcredentials/core-competencies/) as a reference for these questions. Cynthia Loy Darst delivered this professional development webinar on April 28, 2014 to Consortium for Healthcare Education Online (CHEO) career coaches. About the Presenter: Cynthia Loy Darst is the owner of the Inspiration Point. Passionate about raising the bar on quality in the profession of coaching, Darst is the past-president of ACTO (Association of Coach Training Organizations). With over 20 years as a professional coach, she is considered a pioneer in the coaching world. One of the first to gain the designation of Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation, Darst was a founding member of the International Coach Federation (ICF). She was one of the first Front-of-Room Leaders for both the Coaches Training Institute and CRR Global. A favorite in the coaching world, Darst delivered the opening keynote for the 2012 Midwest Regional ICF Conference. She delivered "Celebration, Metaphor and Magic" to a standing room only crowd at the 2005 San Jose ICF conference, delighted her coaching colleagues in 2006 at the St. Louis ICF conference with her demonstration of MCC level coaching, and was an ICF hit again with "The Magic of Metaphor" in Fort Worth in 2010. In December 2013, Cynthia delivered her first TEDx talk on Safe Inside Yourself at TEDxOlumpicBlvdWomen. You can view that webinar at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSORojaxBc&feature=youtu.be.