Grounding Professional Coaching Practice with Positive Assessments of Emotional Intelligence

G Low, R Hammett 2020

The International Coach Federation (ICF) has historically operated from a competency-based model that we were drawn to when we wrote the first edition of our book on EI-centric coaching, Professional Coaching: A Transformative and Research Based Model (Nelson et al., 2013). Over the last 24 months the ICF has been involved in qualitative research with experienced coaches to validate and where necessary, revise their core competency model. Any references in this paper to core competencies reflect the new competency model that will go into effect January 2021 (International Coach Federation, 2019).