Coaching Skills Inventory & Personal Development Plan

Coaching Skills Inventory

Using the rating scale: 1 = High Confidence, 4 = Area For Development

Coaching Skills Inventory Self-Assessment

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Appropriate Body Language 

Suitable Posture

Sensitive eye contact

Reinforcing and confirming gestures

Open and positive, non-threatening, non-intimidating 

Mirroring

Attentive body language to signal attention

Questioning For Understanding 

Use of open questions - what, when, where, who

Asking probing questions - how much, how often how many

Avoid closed and leading questions

Start broad - explore to be curious

Question to narrow focus

Use of question to test, check and clarify

Listening For Meaning

Positive engagement

Be alert to what is important to the learner

Tune to what is not being said/ inconsistency 

Regular summarising - use learner words

Accommodate and value silence

Giving Feedback

Specific and focus on evidence

Continuing understanding

Checking feelings and emotions

Summarising

Building and explaining

Create feedback loop

Communication

Clear and concise use of language

Appropriate vocabulary

Confirming and clarifying

Managing Structured Coaching Sessions

Agreeing the agenda

Managing time

Reaching consensus

Maintaining the focus

Personal Qualities

Sense of humour

Empathy and rapport

Non-judgemental

Supportive and engaged

Honesty 

Enthusiasm

Optimism

Personal Development Plan

After reflecting on the scores you awarded yourself on the page 1 inventory, using the template below build a personal development plan. You will want to focus any areas where you scored yourself -1- but we recommend that this should not be a 'deficit' model. As a result, you may want to select areas where you have already achieved a high degree of confidence and capacity for continuing refinement.


Record your area of development with objectives, what/ how you will approach upskilling in this area, plus, the anticipated outcomes.

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The same thing drives every leader: achieving a shared goal, nevertheless, how they communicate or pursue this shared goal varies. 

In order to build on these layers it’s important to learn what your ‘default leadership’ style is, by taking our leadership assessment we’ll have a baseline to work with, while helping you identify your dominant style.

Leadership is a combination of both style and substance, varying from personal to person with multiple layers.