1. Evaluating your Coaching
What is Coach evaluation and how do you do it?
Sample evaluation form, log and diary
Evaluating one of your delivered sessions
Evaluating a peer
Drafting Task 5 of the assignment

2. Evaluating your Coaching
Evaluate - plan- deliver- evaluate
– in an ongoing cycle.
Evaluation means ‘critically analysing’ the effectiveness of coaching
What general questions would you ask a coach to help them self analyse?
What criteria would you measure the coaching against?
1. Session aims
2. Season aims
3. Performer’s goals
4. Feedback from performers/peers
5. performer’s ‘performance’
In pairs, suggest some possible aspects from the 5 criteria above which could be used to help a coach evaluate their own performance

3. Evaluating your Coaching
Look at the handout of the National Coaching Foundation ‘ Coach Evaluation Form’ for individual sessions and programmes of sessions.
Can you apply the session evaluation to the last session you coached and grade yourself?
Which do you think are most important questions asked? Why?
Which areas do you think you need most improvement in?
Ask a colleague who was in the session you coached to grade you on one question from each of the 3 sections of the form. Discuss the grade and what might improve it.

4. Evaluating your Coaching
Coaches’ Diary or Log
Variety of formats- notes, diagrams, flow charts, proformas
Write it soon after the session
Describe- the situation, perception, behaviour first before analysing it
Don’t just pick on the negative- describe the positive first?
Identify how to improve – aspects, overall.
Look for permanent, long term improvements as well as immediate impacts

5. Evaluating your Coaching
The Coaching Diary
Look at the Sports Coach UK Coaching Diary.
Fill in the Diary based on a recent coaching session you can recall clearly.
Particularly considering something which didn’t go well, or as planned, use the prompt questions they supply to fill in the form.
What was I trying to achieve?
Why did I intervene as I did?
What were the consequences of my actions?
How did I feel about the experience at the time?
How did the performers feel?
How do I know how they felt?
What factors affected my decisions?
Could I have dealt better with the situation?
What other actions could I have taken?
What might have happened then?
What have I learnt from the experience?
How will it affect my future coaching practice?