Coaching Success Assessment, contributed by W. Jan Austin, excerpted from the Coaching Forms Collection

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How are you doing with the following suggested items for assessing your coaching success? As coaches, are we only as good as our last coaching session? How can you let this list assist you in the very next coaching call you’re scheduled for?

• Identifies openings to performance, change & transformation.
• Helps create a clear focus of coaching interaction each time it is held.
• Connects my development to an appropriate sense of urgency.
• Clear priorities are established during the interaction.
• Encourages you to take appropriate action through a planned, systemized process.
• Accountability is created around priorities and time lines.
• Offers to share experience and knowledge when appropriate.
• My coach has no authority, accountability or responsibility for the outcomes I produce.
• Takes time to learn about what I do in my job.
• I look forward to our meetings and interaction.
• The coach is available for prescribed meetings and is accessible.
• Time you spend interacting is free from interruption by outside influences.

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We invite your comments on the assessment and its usability and/or other thoughts regarding practical tools for coaches.