Chapter 9: The Coach 237Assessing Supervisory Coaching Skills
This section provides two tools to help supervisors determine
whether or not they are confident in their coaching skills and able to
juggle the roles of coach and supervisor.
- Supervisory coaching skills assessment (North Carolina
Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's
Resource Program). - Job responsibility data collection table (The National
Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and
Permanency Planning & The National Child Welfare Resource
Center for Organizational Improvement)
Supervisory coaching skills assessment
This instrument was designed to provide supervisors with a vehicle
to assess their effectiveness as a coach and identify specific areas to
improve upon. This tool is simplistic in nature, providing
supervisors with ideas or starting points on which to focus in
improving coaching skills.
Instructions
Review all responses. Responses of “strongly agree” and “agree”
probably indicate areas of strength. Responses of “strongly
disagree” or “disagree” probably indicate areas that need
improvement.