{"id":1621,"date":"2012-09-02T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T21:23:28","slug":"david-wood-on-training-and-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/david-wood-on-training-and-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"David Wood on Training and Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you advise coaches to pursue certification?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Choose a school\/training that you admire and respect. And do it to become a better coach. Or do it for the thrill of learning and the good of the profession. But don\u2019t let the \u2018piece of paper\u2019 run you. It\u2019s a common myth that a certification will get you more clients. In my experience, it\u2019s simply not true. Try to get certified so you can feel confidend is not the smartest reason.<\/p>\n<p>I got my formal PCC certificatin through the International Coach Federation and I found that it actually wasn\u2019t important at all. I think I may have been asked once in the whole first three years of my coaching what qualification I had, and in that case it was by a magazine that wanted to do a story on me.<\/p>\n<p>I would say to coaches starting out, don\u2019t be panicked or worried by the fact that you may not have a formal certification. Build up your testimonials from clients and let that speak for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview in\u00a010 Super Coaches. Would you advise coaches to pursue certification? Choose a school\/training that you admire and respect. And do it to become a better coach. Or do it for the thrill of learning and the good of the profession. But don\u2019t let the \u2018piece of paper\u2019 run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[129,245,122,137,30],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}