Who decides if coaching is working?

...in 30 seconds

Graham Willcock

8/21/20231 min read

man standing in front of people sitting beside table with laptop computers
man standing in front of people sitting beside table with laptop computers

Assuming the purpose of coaching is to improve leadership, what an organisation means by 'leadership' is an important question. So too who decides if it has improved and by what measure? The coachee? The coachee's line reports? Their line managers?