1. Accreditation of Coaching in S.A.

2. Three types of accreditation
• Personal accreditation:
• A client-recommendaton
• Professional accreditation:
• Through a professional body, who represent a
professional benchmark for standards and
ethics.
• Academic accreditation: Receiving the credits
for the programme, which you successfully
completed.

3. Difference between
• Accreditation: Programmes not people
• Certification: Upon graduating –
provided by the relevant coach-shool
• Credentialling: Provided by a body such
as ICF and others
• Hours of coaching plus
• Accredited training hours
(eg. ACC/PCC/MCC)

4. Institutions Offering Coach Training Programmes
in South Africa (Count)
9
4
37
University
Private HE&T/FET
College
Private Sector

5. 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
University Private
HE&T/FET
College
Private
Sector
Total
8 6
17
31
6
2
8
10
10
18
18
Type of Training Institution
by Type of Accreditation (Count)
Unknown
International
National & International
National

6. What is the NQF
• The National Qualifications Framework is a
comprehensive system, approved by the
minister of Education for the
classification, registration, publication and
articulation of quality-assured National
Qualifications
– Sub Frameworks: (Each with a Council)
• General and Further Education
• Higher Education
• Trades and Occupations

7. The role of SAQA in NQF
• Advances the objectives of the NQF
• Oversee further development and
implementation of the NQF
• Co-ordinate Sub-frameworks
www.saqa.org.za/show.asp?id=909

8. Questions
Regarding Accreditation
Do I need to be
certified to practice
as a professional
coach?
So why get certified
or even qualified?
What is the difference
between
accreditation, certificati
on and a credential?
What are the
different coach
accreditations a
coach can have?
I don’t want to get
certified or
credentialed now, I
just want to start
coaching. Is that ok?
I’m from a “random”
country, do I need a
different
qualification?
But what if my
country asks for
my country’s
qualification?
http://www.icoachacademy.com/about-coaching/coach-certification/

9. Quality Assurance Councils
• Sector-based structure responsible for the
development and quality-assurance of
qualifications in the sub-frameworks of the
NQF.
• GENFETQA – for General and further edu & trg
• CHE – for Higher Education
• Council for Trades and Occupations

10. INTERNATIONAL COACHING BODIES
 International Coach Federation (ICF)
 International Coaching Council (ICC)
 International Association of Coaching (IAC)
 Federation of NLP Coaching Professionals (FNLPCP)
 The International Society of Neuro-Semantics (ISNS)
 European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC)
 The Association for NLP - ANLP International CIC
 American Board of NLP
 The Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching (GSAEC)

11. Requirements for a programme to be
accredited with ICF
• A min of 125 hours of coach-specific training
• Training on all ICF Core Competencies and the
ICF Code of Ethics
• A min of 6 observed-coaching sessions with an
experienced coach
• A comprehensive final exam that evaluates a
student’s coaching competency

12. GSAEC-mission
• To strengthen the discipline and practice of executive and organizational
coaching by:
• Building, sustaining, and supporting a collaborative community of
educators, researchers, practitioners, and consumers
• Establishing and fostering academic standards for graduate level courses and
programs
• Supporting academic institutions wishing to develop or re-design executive &
organizational coaching programs
• Compiling, organizing, sharing and sponsoring research that builds the executive
and organizational coaching community and contributes to the body of
knowledge.