Ioda Reviews

I personally struggled with todays delivery. The trainer Emma, was clearly very knowledgeable and passionate, but joked she went off on a tangent a lot and it was true. Many discussions went into other areas, content didn't stay where it needed to to ensure that we learnt the brief as required. I feel that the subjects on the slides, and theories and models we need to reference for our assignments needed to be clearer and covered to a higher level. The discussions and areas Emma went into were interesting, but I found it very all over the place, rushed and very difficult to concentrate and focus. More group activities and practical ways to practice the models would have helped us far more on the course. Many others within the group loved the delivery, so its just a personal preference. For me it was too disorganised, chaotic at times and lacked structure. Named extra models and theorists were mentioned insanely quickly, while trying to note each one, she was on to another. So I have a book of half scribbles and the most chaotic notes I have had to date from a module delivery. I have come away feeling overwhelmed and unconfident I have the knowledge from the session I needed. I will now be going on and watching another delivery from another trainer in the Ioda resources to ensure I have understood the module. Emma was clearly passionate about coaching and mentoring, but commented often on she goes off a lot and the day must have been hard for completer finishers and certain learning styles / personality types and it really was challenging and felt unmotivating and so hard to follow. Sat listening to someone, without much interactivity and group break outs to practice the practical side for almost 6 hours was too much for me. However it is clear Emma is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic but how the delivery impacts some should be considered more.

Too many breakout rooms and very fast pace

In the interest of transparency, I found the session quite disjointed and unplanned. It felt like someone had asked about the AI aspect and it was thrown on to this workshop last minute. I think that also impacted the learning outcome of the session, negatively.

Trainer was knowledgeable with being an accountant so is a subject matter expert however for me the subject was boring so needed a lot of interaction to keep be interested.

The trainer was not very engaging im afraid. The subject is quite dry and it could have done with someone a bit more animated. I don't think i took in very muxh today

Presenter excellent . Content excellent. But my issue is we arent imo making the best use of the workshop forum. We could review these models and concepts on our own prior to the workshop e.g. via learning journey / webinar. in these workshops we could then engage in a less theoretical abstract way and a more contextualised and applied one. E.g. review examples or staged videos of coaching sessions and debate what we were doing a given situation e.g. notice a metaphor give feedback so not a comment on the facilitators who’ve been great more a thought about the approach to the pedagogy which I think should be changed.

I enjoyed the day . I really like , trust the facilitator both for kindness and approach and for her credibility as a coach.i thought the course could’ve been more concise and focused today. It’s not because I’m super confident or think I already know what needs to be done to be a good coach. It’s more about the pace of learning today ,whatever people’s baseline. Totally conscious that Other people will have different preferences but it to me it felt a bit slow . aware there’s a risk of irony when this is a course about coaching but I felt that a lot of this content could have just been provided as seems clear and the models are excellent and explanatory versus a day spent drawing some of this out. Perhaps at least a bit more of a balance. However, the pace was a bit too quick when framing tasks e.g. what are the models for where? How do they sit in literature? What conversations have we had so far that they relate to and in particular where can we find them?

Unfortunately this has has been the least enjoyable workshop i have been on as part of the SLA level 7 but covered all the content that i needed

The day was a bit flat in my opinion and lacked flow.

Excellent.