NOTE:
The ICF transitioning to the ACC exam spans November 18,2024 to March 14, 2025. In that time window, our students will have the option to either write the ACC Credential Exam OR the ICF Credentialing Exam. After March 14, 2025, ACC applicants can ONLY write the ACC Credential Exam.
This course has been redesigned to get our students ready for BOTH up until to March 14, 2025!
Welcome to the Credentialing Exam Prep Class [CEP] where you will work with a variety of situations and real coaching scenarios to validate your understanding of the correct action taken by a professional coach. You will have the opportunity to take a practice exam to ensure you are ready to ace the ICF Credential Exam.* Passing is not guaranteed.
If you are taking this course as a stand-alone program, you will receive an individual certificate two weeks after successfully completing the program. At any point, if you have any questions about certification or other programs we offer, please reach out to us for more information. Your Admin Team contact information is located at the bottom of this page.
We wish you much success during your learning experience with us! If you have any questions about the course, please feel free to reach out to us at any time!
What to expect from this class;
- The PRIME intention of this course is to ensure you can apply the eight ICF Core Competencies to real-life coaching situations, in accordance with how the ICF does.
- Each week has situations and in the context of a specified competency, we discuss the merits of various possible answers.
- One situation each week will be like ones on the ICF Exam, where you will NOT know the competency and must choose the “Best Action” and the “Worst Action” for that situation.
- We will discuss the answers to gain an understanding of the ICF thinking process relative to the competency.
- You will have time to reflect on your answer.
- Look through the resource material:
- ICF Definition of Coaching
- ICF Code of Ethics
- ICF Core Competencies
Below is a rundown of the Credentialing Assessment Prep Class [CEP] and what you can expect coming up in the weeks ahead.
Curriculum Overview
| Week 1 | The ACC Credential Exam knowledge testing questions and situations. |
| Week 2 | The ACC Credential Exam knowledge testing questions and situations. |
| Week 3 | The ACC Credential Exam knowledge testing questions and situations. |
| Practice Exam | The ACC Credential Practice Exam by ICG |
| Week 4 | The ICF Credentialing Exam judgement testing scenarios and situations. |
| Week 5 | The ICF Credentialing Exam judgement testing scenarios and situations. |
| Week 6 | The ICF Credentialing Exam judgement testing scenarios and situations. |
| Practice Exam | The ICF Credentialing Practice Exam by ICG |
How to Take This Course
This learning experience combines live online (Zoom) classes and self-study materials (this content).
- Know the ICF Core Competencies very well and keep learning and applying them to who you are as a coach.
- Review the content on this page to become familiar with this course. These pages will guide through the entire learning experience.
- This page contains the downloads and access to all course materials. Many of them can be downloaded for your use.
- Attend the Zoom class each week at the designated time. See CLASS folder each week.
- Attendance is mandatory. See the Missed Class Policy for how to ensure 100% attendance.
- The course content is divided into modules we called WEEKs. Each week has its own:
- CLASS folder – which contains the ZOOM LINK to each weeks’ live class.
- LEARNING PACK folder – which contains exercises to be completed after every live Zoom class.
- Login and start each week in the correct CLASS folder.
- Each week, complete the exercises found in the LEARNING PACK folder.
- IMPORTANT: Once you have completed a Class or Fieldwork topic MARK AS COMPLETE. All lessons and sections need to be completed to be awarded a Completion Certificate.
- Use the navigation summary box at the top left to locate each week’s material.
Missed Class Policy
(This section does not apply if you do not need a completion certificate)
To successfully complete this course, we require full attendance.
In the event you missed this last class, we offer you one option to listen to the recording, complete and submit a Recorded Class Report prior to the next scheduled class. You will be automatically sent this form in the event you miss a class.
If you miss more than 2 classes: We will require you to re-take those specific classes missed during the next available program. A $100.00 Class Re-take Fee may apply.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Contact Your COTBx Admin Team
Student Support Coordinator – support@cotbx.com
Operations Assistant – lucy@cotbx.com
Operations Manager – stefanie@cotbx.com
Our team is always available in Slack – please feel free to reach us in your course channel or by dm.
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