Coaching Toolkit for Child Welfare

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Readiness

This chapter provides information about creating an organizational
culture that supports comprehensive and systematic coaching. Tools
are provided to assess readiness of both the organization and
learners.

“Making coaching successful requires consistent

efforts to create the necessary foundations for

coaching within the organization. Otherwise, the

context, the organization’s climate, and the

principles of coaching may be in conflict. As a

result, coaching efforts will be less successful.

Moreover, lack of commitment to ongoing

personnel development, whether on the part of

an individual or an organization, frequently is a

serious barrier to successful coaching.”

~ Gallacher, 1997, p. 208

Organizational leadership must build and maintain a climate
where coaching is viewed as important and where the predominant
style of managing and working together is through a coaching