Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare

116 The Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare Practice

Challenges in the relationship between
coaches and/or supervisors and
management (internal and external
coaching units)

 Contracting (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

 The Coach-Learner-Supervisor

relationship (Chapter 6:

Coaching Models)

 Supervisors as coach (Chapter

9: The Coach)

 Ethics (Chapter 11: Ethics of

Coaching

The use of information for performance
reviews or disciplinary actions obtained
through coaching.

 Contracting (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

 Liability and ethics (Chapter 11:

Ethics of Coaching)

 Supervisors as coach (Chapter

9: The Coach)

Learner pushes coach to “do the work.”
"Can you show me how to do that again?"
What decision would you make?

 Reflective practice (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

 Confidence (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

 Motivation (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

 Enrollment (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

 Contracting (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

Coach-learner-supervisor relationship
becomes tense. Learner feels “in the
middle.”

 Contracting (Chapter 4:

Capacity Building)

The agency or learner is resistant to
participate in quality improvement or
evaluation activities.

 Continuous quality

improvement and evaluation

(Chapter 10)

The culture of the agency and that of the
learner must be understood.

 Cultural humility (Chapter 3:

Framework and Foundation)