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COACHING skills assessment

This checklist can be used to help you assess your coaching skills. It helps you evaluate whether you have established the employee's objectives and supported the employee in developing options and a plan of action for achieving his/her goals.

Check the appropriate box to assess how effective you are as a coach.

Yes

No

Think about your last coaching session, did you:

Ask questions to establish the employee's objectives?


Help the employee identify specifically what they would like to do differently?

Help the employee set realistic expectations of the coaching session?

Ask questions to help the employee establish the current performance shortfall or issue?

Help the employee define when the performance shortfall or situation was happening, why, how and what the effect was?

Ask questions to help the employee establish what they need to do to change the situation?

Encourage the employee to explore options for solutions?

Ask questions to establish what approaches or actions have worked for them in the past?

Follow the employee's agenda?

Only offer suggestions and advice if asked?

Offer feedback to the employee where appropriate?

Help the employee establish the next steps for him/her?

Ask questions to ensure that the next steps were specific and time bound?

Ask the employee for a review date?

Set a review date?

Maintain positive rapport?

Show your confidence in the employee?

Reproduced by permission from HRD Press, Inc., Compendium of Questionnaires and Inventories, Volume 2, Cook, Sarah.

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