Chapter 7: Implementation 199
Creating the Coaching
Implementation Plan
To effectively address the complex issues within child welfare
services, it is important to develop a deliberate and thorough
coaching implementation plan.
If you don’t know where you’re going,
you might wind up someplace else.
~Yogi Berra
The coaching implementation plan can be quite detailed. Use the
following questions as a starting point for creating an
implementation plan (see Table 7.1).
Table 7.1. Creating the Implementation Plan
Steps Planning Questions
Step 1:
Identify the vision
(what the group
wants to see
happen).
Where does the agency want to be in one year after
implementing coaching?
What are the results or outcomes the agency hopes
to achieve?
Is the vision statement clear: When reading your
vision statement does someone not working in your
field understand what your agency hopes to
accomplish?