Worksheets and Other Resources for Coaches
This webpage offers a variety of documents that can help both new and seasoned coaches better serve their clients.
Many documents are from Elena’s book The Art of Coaching, but we’ve included some additional tools not found in the book. Click from the list below to jump to a category of documents or download the entire set of documents using the button below.
The Art of Coaching Reader’s Guide
The Art of Coaching Reader’s Guide is a collection of guiding questions that will enrich your experience with the text. It’s great if both for independent readers and those who are using the book with group.
Download Free Worksheets and Other Tools
Tools found in The Art of Coaching:
Additional tools not found in The Art of Coaching:
Tools from The Art of Coaching
- Coaching Agreement
- Questions for a New Client
- Storytelling Prompts for the Exploration Stage
- Coach Reflection: Stage of Exploration
- Coach Reflection Tool Example
- Coaching Documentation and Reflection Log (Example)
- Coaching Documentation and Reflection Log
- Data Gathering Tool
- Reflective Prompts for a Coach
- Coaching Session Planning
- Coaching Conversation Analysis Tool
- Coaching Conversation Analysis Tool (Part 2)
- Coaching Debrief Plan Example
- Coaching Log
- Record of Coaching Conversation
- Developing a Coaching Vision and Mission Statement
- Monthly Report Example
- Monthly Report Example (Version 2)
- Monthly Report Template
- Midyear Report Reflection
- Midyear or End of Year Report
- Midyear Report Reflection
- Week Schedule for a Coach
- Transformational Coaching Rubric
- Work Plan Template
- Appendix D Cheat Sheets and Lists
- End of Year Coach Reflection
- Monthly Report Example Version 2
- Coaching Conversation Analysis Tool Part 2
- Quick Glance at a Coach’s Practice
- Classroom Observation Tool
- Conversation Debrief Plan Blank
- Observation Tool Example
- Observation of Instructional Behaviors
- Teacher to Student Interaction Tracking Blank
- Teacher to Student Interaction Tracking Tool Example
For Conversations with Clients:
- Coaching Lenses
- Core Values
- Coaching Sentence Stems
- Guided Imagery
- Sample Student Survey for Teachers
- Sample Staff Survey for Principals
- Questions for a First Meeting
Additional Tools
(Not found in The Art of Coaching)
- How to Build Trust
- Process for Goal Setting & Goals Conversation
- Reflection and Process for Raising Difficult Topics in Meetings
- Mind the Gap
- Planning for a Beliefs Conversation
- Planning for a Beliefs Conversation Example
- Questions to Ask Yourself When Preparing for Hard Conversations
- Planning for a Coaching Conversation (Table 13.1, p. 399, The Art of Coaching Workbook)
For Conversations with Clients:
- Action Research: What and Why*
- Process for Changing Behaviors*
- Conscious Competence Ladder
- Giving and Receiving Feedback*
- Mini Inquiry Cycle*
- Spheres of Influence
* These resources are from the Onward Workbook.
- Principles of Adult Learning
- Active and Intentional Listening
- Check List Facilitating PD
- Coaching Conversation Transcript
- Critical Friends Protocol
- Compass Points Activity
- Listening to Your Own Listening
- Example Community Agreements
- Questioning Mistakes
- Quick Coach Self Assessment
- Save the Last Word for Me
- Tuckman’s Team Development Model
- Three Levels of Text Protocol
Recommended Podcast Episodes
Episode 29: Coaching Tools for Transformation: Core Values, Mind the Gap and Strengths-Based Coaching
Episode 43: The Spheres of Influence
Episode 83: Coaching Conversation: How Do I Set Our Coaching Program Up for Success?
Episode 98: When it Feels Like it’s Never Enough
Coaching Emotions
Episode 36: Kathrina Mendez Revisited: Virtual Reality: Confronting Self-Doubt
Episode 37: How to ACE Your Coaching Conversations
Episode 127: Coaching Emotions: Anger
Episode 128: Coaching Emotions: Sadness
Episode 129: Coaching Emotions: Joy
Episode 147: Coaching Resistance: Part 1 – What is Resistance