Harpercollins trillion dollar coach pdf

Assessing Coaching Effectiveness

In an eight-week course, it is simply not possible to cover every aspect of coaching and address

every situation a coach may encounter. This course was designed to provide you with the

foundational knowledge to increase your capacity for coaching and fostering leadership

development in others. A very important part of coaching is assessing coaching effectiveness.

Where and how do you begin to evaluate whether or not the coaching relationship was successful

and achieved what was planned?

As a foundation, reflect upon what it is you are assessing beginning with what brought about the

coaching relationship? In every situation, there are certain undisputable truths for which

everyone can agree. These are commonly called first principles (Schmidt, Rosenberg & Eagle,

2019). In Trillion Dollar Coach, Bill Campbell is quoted as stating, “Define the „first principles‟

for the situation, the immutable truths that are the foundation for the company or product, and

help guide the decision from those principles” (Schmidt, Rosenberg, and Eagle, 2019, p. 60).

Analyze the dynamics of the coaching experience. How does coaching benefit the coachee? How

can a coach respect confidentiality and forge trust? In what ways should a coach judgment and

values of the person you are coaching? Did you understand their limitations? Were you sensitive

to their vulnerabilities? At the same time, did you cultivate insight and inspire commitment? Did

you grow the necessary skills? Did you take advantage of coachable moments, and teach the

learner to think for themselves? Remember the adage of encouraging others to learn how to think,

not what to think. Then reflect upon lessons learned. What was done well? Was there some

opportunity lost or omitted? How do you define success, and were you successful?

References

Schmidt, E., Rosenberg, J., Eagle, A. (2019). Trillion-dollar coach, New York, NY:

HarperCollins Publishers