Sat Mar 23, 2019

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How satisfied is the client with the coaching process and/or coach? (Seems that there are two distinct questions here.)
1. Extremely satisfied. Empathy, listening skills, unassuming humility of coach are exceptional. Relationship appears to be mutually constructive.
What does the client like or dislike about coaching?
1. Love the flood of new possibility that was opened as with a magical key. No dislikes yet.
What changes would the client like to make?
1. No changes as of yet.
How does the client plan to apply outcomes from coaching in life or work?
1. I would like to use the learnings to transform a select multi-billion dollar industry to open source product development and distributed production on a time scale of 3 years.
How does the client think that coaching outcomes can impact the organization?
1. The coach's skillset inserted into this relationship can provide the necessary tools to succeed, thereby demonstrating the first clearly-visible and noteworthy case of industry transformation to open source, paving the way for a cascade of such transformation in other industries.

To what extent is the client showing new skills or knowledge?
1. Tactical approach proposed by coach is initial validation of the right direction. The second conversation opened up my perspective on the role of collaborators (as potential long term developers as opposed to just incentive challenge contributors) - which can potentially shift the outcomes of this work in a significant way in the positive direction.
What new awareness or insight has emerged from the coaching process?
1. That the possibility of Distributed Market Substitution can be validated on the grounds of economic efficiency - ie - that a distributed, open source approach to economics can be made to work if the incentives are structured properly.
To what extent has coaching had an impact on the client’s level of capability?
1. The shift so far has been conceptual inspiration.

How have new skills or ways of interacting been used in real work situations?
1. I have already shared the insights with our development team with positive feedback, and team is already seeing new possibilities here. To be continued.
To what extent has behavior change occurred on the job as a result of coaching?
1. As a result, now I can speak more authoritatively about the feasibility of what we are trying to do.

What difference has the coaching process made in actual organizational results (e.g. sales, errors, retention, morale, creativity, time-to-market etc.)?
1. Team morale shot through the roof. To be continued.
What is the return-on-investment realized through coaching for the organization?
1. The potential return on investment may be quantified as the revenue (livelihoods) created, which I would like to be $5B in 5 years.