{"id":1886,"date":"2012-12-19T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2012-02-08T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:52:03","slug":"philip-cohen-on-pursuing-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/philip-cohen-on-pursuing-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Cohen on Pursuing Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Philip Cohen in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you advise coaches to pursue certification? If so, at what stage in their practice, and through which accrediting body?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe strongly in certification. Having a certification or being on the path to one, sends a strong message to my prospects and clients. It says I\u2019m serious about what I bring to our relationship because I\u2019ve gone through training and been willing to prove myself. I believe certification gives me a competitive edge over other people who call themselves coaches, but they are that in name only. I also believe certification is important to give credibility to the profession in the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n<p>The certification process starts on the day a person decides to become a coach. The process starts with a mental attitude. A person who decides to purse certification is saying this is a serious process and they are committed to being the best they can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Philip Cohen in\u00a010 Super Coaches. Would you advise coaches to pursue certification? If so, at what stage in their practice, and through which accrediting body?\u00a0 I believe strongly in certification. Having a certification or being on the path to one, sends a strong message to my prospects [&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":[129,122,260,137,30],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"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=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}