As the leading independent Accreditation Body for the coaching industry, the ECI provides numerous benefits for each level of membership. These membership options include:

• Associate Membership is available for individuals and is open to all. We understand that not everyone who wants to benefit from coaching knowledge, wishes to train and qualify as a coach and become accredited. Therefore Associate Membership allows you to benefit from ECI membership without having to demonstrate your professional knowledge and experience of coaching.
  
  Associate Members come from a variety of backgrounds. They all share an interest in coaching. So you may be a corporate director, business owner, a line manager, supervisor, in education, student, project manager, team leader, self-employed, running a small company, or someone who has an interest in the world of coaching - who ever you are and whatever you do, there are a whole host of benefits just waiting for you.
  
  For full details of the benefits available for Associate Membership, click here.
  
  
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• Accredited Coach Membership is available to individuals who want to demonstrate their training and experience with an internationally recognised coaching standard.
  
  As a motivated coach wanting to attract more clients, the ECI has an independently established accreditation level to suit your requirements.
  
  Each level of accreditation demonstrates the training and coaching experience you have as a coach, by showing the number of hours of coach specific training and a coaching log showing the number of hours of coaching experience that you have.
  
  Accredited Coaches come from a variety of backgrounds and practice in a large range of professions. So you may be a life, corporate, executive, business, work/life balance, parent, relationship, sports, retirement, health, and list continues, coach - who ever you are and however you coach, there are a whole host of benefits just waiting for you.
  
  For full details of the benefits available for Accredited Membership, click here.
  
  
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• Corporate Membership is available for organisations that want to provide an additional benefit to their employees. Their employees may be individuals who have an interest in coaching or internally employed coaches.
  
  In addition to the benefits listed for Associate and Accredited Members, additional benefits for Corporate Membership can be found by clicking here.



• Training Organisations have the opportunity to demonstrate the quality of their coach training courses, short courses or workshops by attaining an accreditation status and grading with an internationally recognised coaching standard.
  
  As a motivated training organisation wanting to attract more students, the ECI has an independently established course or workshop accreditation level to suit your organisations requirements.
  
  Each level of accreditation demonstrates the type training that the course or workshop provides.
  
  So you may offer Full Coach Training, Introduction to Coaching, Coaching Skills - what ever the training is, there are a whole host of benefits just waiting for your organisation.
  
  For full details of the benefits available for Training Organisations, click here.
  
  
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• Affiliate Organisations provides the facility for national organisations to affiliate with an international organisation. The benefits provided to the members of the Affiliate Organisation are the same as those provided to the ECI's Associate Members and Accredited Coaches.
  
  For full details of the benefits available for Affiliate Organisations, select the Associate Member and Accredited Coaches benefits.
  
  
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For all members, the membership benefits include, but are not exclusive to:

• Belong to an international coaching community. Demonstrates the regulation and the legitimacy of this profession.



• Belonging to the leading independent Accreditation Body for the coaches and coach training providers.



• Raising the professional standards of coaching by :-



• Linking into the ECI's Standards and Ethics to demonstrate your professional standards.



• Demonstrating to your clients, your commitment to the quality of the coaching industry by ensuring that your clients have access to the ECI's Complaints Procedure. This assists ECI members to gain business through minimalising the perceived risks associated with coaching. Ensures credibility, transparency, and protection.



• Support the ECI in their negotiations with governments to create a professional self-regulated industry. This is providing the industry with a structure for accountability and standards, so that the voices of those passionate about their industry can be heard.



• The official ECI e-newsletter is delivered monthly directly to your in-box. The ECI Newsletter - Keeping You Informed with Each Other - is a newsletter of coaching articles, top 10's, questions answered, book of the month, and the latest news in the coaching profession; the majority of which is submitted by our members.



• The Coaching Industry e-newsletter is delivered regularly directly to your in-box. The Coaching Industry Update provides an update on the coaching profession, enabling members to remain at the forefront of their industry.



• Being a source of information to the public about coaching.



• Being a source of information to the media.



• Access to the ECI's media resource centre with titles, reports, journal articles, white papers, and most up-to-date information in coaching.



• Advance notice of ECI Conferences, Events and Workshops, enabling you to be there first when updating your coaching skills.



• Opportunity to promote your own courses, workshops, and products.



• Opportunity to promote your own members offers.