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How Coach-Like Is Your Leadership?
Discover your current strengths and the opportunities to develop with this quick, evidence-based self-assessment that shows you:
- How consistently you coach vs. direct your team
- Whether your team can confidently make decisions without you
- If your current leadership habits support autonomy, accountability and growth
- Where to focus your development next so you can free up time for strategic work
- What your score means — from Answer Provider to Transformational Coach
Coaching Skills Self-Assessment
Get our practical tool for leaders who want to reduce bottlenecks, build capability in their teams, and shift from “answer-giver” to “people-developer”.
Takes less than 5 minutes.
Why Coaching Skills Matter
Modern leadership requires more than technical competence. It demands human-centred skills — deep listening, powerful questioning, clear feedback, and the ability to help others think independently. Coaching does all of this.
Developing your coaching skills directly influences:
- Decision quality
- Engagement
- Innovation
- Trust
- Team performance
- Workload (especially yours)
Based on real coaching behaviours, and grounded in human-centred leadership principles, this self-assessment gives you:
Research-backed Assessment
Designed to measure behaviours such as empowering others, enabling independent problem-solving, and creating growth opportunities.
A Clear Scoring Framework
Your total score places you into one of four leadership profiles, with insight into your current approach and opportunities to evolve.
Practical Recommendations
Easy next steps you can apply immediately — from shifting to “ask before tell”, to using deep active listening, to building a rhythm of development-focused conversations.
A Simple Tool You Can Use With Your Team
Perfect for leadership development, team offsites, or capability-building conversations.
Download Your Free Coaching Skills Self-Assessment
Get instant access to the PDF and start identifying the habits that will help you lead with more clarity, confidence and capacity.
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