1. Copyright© 2015 Trilogy Development. All rights reserved. Trilogydevelopment.com Assessment and Vision Exercise 1.Your company/firm has a culture of learning and development. Employees receive on average a minimum of 35 hours of learning and professional development annually. (Technical training or training required to do one’s job is a component of time allocated.) 2.What is the environment in which your company must compete and win? Can you envision a coaching conversation about your company, its position in the marketplace and designing competitive strategies? With whom would you have this conversation? 3.Your company’s competency models are fundamental to its learning strategy and aligned to the future of the business. 4.Your organization holds people accountable for their development and measures their progress. 5.Your organization measures the impact of its leadership development programs regularly. 6.Coaching/mentoring/teaching employees is a key component of every manager’s job description. They have specific performance management objectives (PMOs) and are measured against them in their reviews. 7.Employees know the difference between technical training and professional development. 8.Employees believe they receive the appropriate level of professional development annually and communicate this to their management or Human Resources via employee engagement surveys. 9.When employees are asked in their employee surveys about opportunities for career advancement, their responses are positive as they are indeed provided with opportunities to advance. 10.When asked via an employee engagement survey about their readiness to accept another position or promotion, employees indicate that they have the professional development capabilities to accept the position today. 11.Your company has a deep bench of talent for all critical positions. Page 1 Step 2: Internal Coaching Program Readiness Assessment Please answer the following questions/statements with True or False

2. Copyright© 2015 Trilogy Development. All rights reserved. Trilogydevelopment.com 12.Your company experiences high employee retention commensurate with your industry. When asked about their ability to be productive, your company’s employees’ responses are extremely positive. 13.When your company’s employees are asked about their manager’s professional capabilities, they indicate that their management and leadership across the board are fully proficient in their emotional intelligence and social intelligence capabilities. 14.Your company’s employees embrace change and are flexible and agile. Assessment and Vision Exercise Page 2 Your Score The more True responses you have, the higher probability that your organization and its culture is ready for coaching, but it doesn’t mean that if you have more False statements your organization is not ready. Whatever your score, I recommend that you allocate some quiet time for reflection and think through the questions that follow below. In addition, review the Environmental Assessment and Visioning Exercise results to help you determine your next steps. If you are not already working with a coach who has experience designing internal coaching initiatives at this point, please see www.robertsoncoachinstitute.com for coaching services. www.robertsoncoachinstitute.com Self-Reflection & Coaching Questions What have you learned? What is happening inside your company? How engaged are your employees? What do they say about their managers? How well does your company perform in the areas of talent retention, development, building a sustainable pipeline of talent? What gaps can you begin to see in your company’s talent capabilities? Obtain a summary of your company’s most recent employee survey. If a survey has not been conducted within the past year, consider contacting an employee survey company to discuss the possibility of having one done. Once you have clear insight into your company’s talent development strategies, consider writing an executive summary on your findings. This summary, as well as the summary from the Organizational Readiness Assessment, can be utilized in the preparation of your proposal for an internal coaching program. Having determined what coaching applications could be helpful to your organization, you need to look at where and how to position a program within your company. Step 2: Internal Coaching Program Readiness Assessment (continued) Please answer the following questions/statements with True or False