Measure your Coaching Skills against Professional Standards
Most leaders never get real feedback on their coaching. They get "great conversation!" or "maybe ask more open-ended questions" — well-intentioned but useless for actual development.
The Team Coaching Assessment Rubric changes that. Built from the ICF Core Competencies (2025) and ICAgile's Agile Coaching framework, it assesses the full range of skills effective coaches need — including the ability to shift fluidly between coaching, mentoring, facilitating, and teaching.
What it covers:
- Ethical Practice — Navigating confidentiality, power dynamics, and stance transparency
- Coaching Mindset — Self-awareness, emotional regulation, and avoiding the "advice trap"
- Establishing Agreements — Clear contracting, session structure, and stakeholder alignment
- Cultivating Trust & Safety — Building psychological safety using Timothy Clark's Four Stages
- Active Listening — Multi-level listening: individual, team dynamics, and organizational patterns
- Evoking Awareness — Powerful questioning that creates insight and reveals system patterns
- Facilitating Growth — Turning insight into action through experiments, not mandates
- Stance Fluidity — Knowing when to coach, mentor, teach, or facilitate — and asking permission before shifting
How it works:
Each competency is scored 1–10 with specific observable behaviors at every level. Use it for self-assessment, peer feedback, or instructor evaluation. Every score range includes development recommendations so you always know what to work on next.
This rubric is used in our Team Coaching & Facilitation cohort, where participants practice live coaching conversations and receive detailed rubric-based feedback after every session.
Download the rubric below, and you'll also receive instruction on how to use it to improve your Coaching Practice.
