Prepare for Your Sample Class
Real Classes with real faculty, students and learning
3 Easy Steps...
Your class experience will be much richer if you are part of the interactive discussion so we recommend preparing before you join. Also, you can actually count this as your first class if you decide to enroll in ICA. So, keep a note of the class name, date and trainer's name.
Image: We recently held our very first Italian Language class using video. It was a complete success!
1. Watch Video Tutorial
These introduce a learning concept, which is then explored and discussed in class.
2. Get Zoom
Join classes using audio or video, via a mobile device or your computer.
3. Connect, Learn and Enjoy
The classroom will be open 15 mins before the start of class. The learning then begins on the hour.
Step 1: Download Module and Watch Video
What is Coaching?
Coaching involves dialogue between a coach and a client with the aim of helping the client obtain a fulfilling life. This is achieved by helping the client establish what is important to them and by clarifying their values. Watch Video Tutorial
Releasing Judgement
A strange thing happens when human beings feel that they are being judged. The first response is to feel guilty, even if it's only for a very short time. Coaches don't judge. They share observations. Watch Video Tutorial
Active Listening
Very few people actually listen deeply. Many times in conversation people are thinking more about what they want to say next than what the other person is changing. Coaches need to develop deep listening skills. Watch Video Tutorial
Powerful Questions
Questioning is the cornerstone of coaching. When done well, it is the skill that most distinguished coaching from different forms of personal or professional development. Watch Video Tutorial
Creating Action
Action is not just about "doing things" it can also be reading, or talking to someone, or thinking. It can be anything that moves your client from where they are now to where they want to be. Watch Video Tutorial
Step 2: Get Set up with Zoom
Since it's inception, ICA has leveraged the best e-learning possible. Classes use the zoom platform, where students are given a choice of connecting with just audio, or audio and video.
This voice to voice style draws on many of the skills essential to coaching mastery - active listening, presence, focus and non judgment. It heightens the observation, learning and practice of coaching competencies. Students learn to attune to what is said and not said, to tone, pitch, and energy, and even the communication clues in a dry cough, a nervous laugh or an unusual pause. All essential skills for a coach.
Step 3: Connect, Learn and Enjoy
ICA's curriculum is mapped across the ICF competencies and although each module has a different topic or focus, the structure of the class is much the same. A trainer will welcome all students and then lead the learning, encourage participation, and answer any questions. Thoughts are discussed and debated, ideas created, knowledge shared, friendships discovered, business connections made, skills practiced, learning enhanced, trust developed and global partnerships formed.
We recently recorded a 'What is Coaching' class...
We Welcome All Students
The first 5 minutes of every class is spent connecting with students. Our students dial in from countries all over the world so this is often a very interesting process. Some students call in early, some on time and some a few minutes late.
Coaching Skills Presentation
Each teleclass is connected to a PDF module in the ICA Learnsite. The trainer will incorporate a presentation of the topic in every class. This will not be a repeat of existing material, but rather an interpretation of the concepts and skills presented in the module.
In this class Rob uses an analogy to explain the difference between coaching, consulting and therapy.
Discover, Don't Tell
The ICA program is taught using a discovery approach. The trainer will help the students discover new material for themselves. This does not mean our trainers never "teach", they just don't "lecture" In this clip a student comments on this style of teaching
Coaching Tip
All our Trainers are practicing coaches, so they come to the classes with real life examples. Things that have worked well with clients and things that have not worked so well.
In this clip Rob talks about the day he decided to let go of his pen and paper with its list of prepared coaching questions, and just trust his instinct to ask the right question at the right time.
Niche Specific Mentoring
We are well known worldwide for the diversity in our Faculty. And this diversity is not just language and cultural, we also have a diverse number of coaching niches represented in our Trainers. In this audio clip Rob Stringer gives students a tip from his professional expertise as a Youth and Family Coach.
Resource Sharing
All our trainers are professional coaches with years of hands on experience. They also come from a wide variety of backgrounds and industries, with many having run their own coaching practice. The resources they share are valuable and practical and provide a further link between theory and practice.
Student Sharing
We actively encourage student to share their personal coaching experiences - why they came to coaching, how they plan to use coaching, challenges and wins. In this clip one of our students shares how she plans to use coaching in her job as a Careers Counsellor at an American College.
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