Learning-Partner
It is designed for you to get real-time feedback about your coaching prowess.
You will be teamed up with a faculty member who will meet with you two times during critical development moments in your learning journey.
The focus will be the skills you have developed so far intending to guide and help you hone your skills faster and more precisely
More Details From Our Chief Coaching-Officer
Clarity on Timing.
- First Learning-Partner session is held upon completion of the 5.5.5 Coach Training series
- Second Session is held at or around the mid way point the Coaching Competency series.
How is this different from Mentoring?
The Learning-Partner experience is PART of the official Mentor-Coaching hours required by the ICF for your credential.
The ICF says:
“Mentor Coaching for an ICF Credential consists of coaching and feedback in a collaborative, appreciative, and dialogued process based on an observed or recorded coaching session to increase the coach’s capability in coaching, in alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.”
“Purpose: Mentoring provides professional assistance in achieving and demonstrating the levels of coaching competency and capability demanded by the desired credential level.”
“Credentialing candidates must complete 10 hours of Mentor Coaching prior to submitting their application. The Mentor Coaching hours must occur over a three-month period or longer. Example: If the first session is March 14, then the last session must be June 14 or after.
Of the 10 hours of mentoring, three hours must be one-on-one. The remaining seven hours may be one-on-one or in a group.
They are required to partner with a Mentor Coach who holds a valid PCC or MCC Credential.
Credential candidates on the ACC (Level 1) or PCC (Level 2) complete their Mentor Coaching as part of their Coach Education program.”
Here is the breakdown.
You need 10 hours of mentoring coaching. This program with us, gives you MORE!
- Course: Learning-Partner, session 2 – 1 hour
- Course: Group Mentoring – 9 hours
- Course: One-To-One Mentoring – 3 hours
Total: 13 hours of skilled guidance to help form and support your ability as a new coach.
Your official Mentor-Coaching time period starts with session 2 of the Learning Partner and ends with the third and last One-To-One session. This easily meets the ICF requirement that mentor coaching happen over a period longer than three months.
Q- Why does the mentoring clock start with LP session 2 and not 1?
A – Session 1 is after your skills course (5.5.5). We use session 1 to bolster your foundational skills and get used to creating a recording and receiving feedback. Since Session 2 falls after you have studied all of the ICF Coaching Competencies, then we can provide a clear focus in that session on the competencies as well as your skills.
What is it
How it Works
What Session 2 Covers
Preparing for your Sessions
At a high level, this is what needs to happen for each session.
- Record one of your coaching sessions (more under the Making a Recording Tab)
- Assess your own recording using the appropriate feedback tool.
- Send your recording with the output of your assessment and Self-Reflection to your Learning-Partner
- Meet for one hour with your learning partner to review your coaching session together.
- Obtain the written feedback form from your learning partner.
- Update your the Self-Reflection section of the feedback tool with your learnings from the session.
- Practice, practice and keep practicing.
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