How do I create a Coaching Program?

Prerequisites

• You have the Coaching app enabled. If you don't believe you have Coaching enabled, contact us at gethelp@ambition.com.
• The creator of the Program of Action Plan must have the Coaching: Create Action Plan and/or Coaching: Create Program Permissions in Ambition.
• A Manager must be listed as at least 1 User's manager, through Groups Types and Groups, or directly via User Settings in order to connect Users to them.

Create a New Coaching Program

1. Open the left navigation and click Administration > Coaching > Programs.

From the Manage Programs menu, you'll see all the existing Coaching Programs. 

2. Click the green + Create Program button.

3. Complete the Create Program Form.

Name

A name is required for the Coaching Program. We recommend names that incorporate the target contributors, topic of focus and frequency of check in.

Examples:

• SDR Daily Update
• AE Weekly Update
• AE Monthly Pipeline Review
• Employee Quarterly Performance Review

Description

A description is required. Simply describe the purpose of the Coaching Program

Objective

An objective is optional. If your Program has a specific purpose (and typically, an explicit start and end date) we recommend defining on objective. 

Recurrence

Initial Event

Establish the first Coaching Sessions by selecting a Start Date, Start Time and Time Zone. 

The Day, Time and Time Zone are used to control when contributors are notified. 

Frequency of Recurrence

Use the drop downs to select how often coaching sessions should be recreated. 

Common cadences are:

• Daily (Every 1 Day)
• Weekly (Every 1 Week)
• Bi-Weekly (Every 2 Weeks)
• Quarterly (Every 3 Months)

Pro Tip: Want to schedule your Program to run on relative dates, for example the first Monday or the last Friday of the month? Set Repeat to "Month" and then select one of the options available. 

Recurrence End

Will this Coaching Program ever end? If so, select a date or number of occurrences to end after. If a date is selected, no new Coaching sessions will be created after. If a number of occurrences is selected, the Coaching Program will loop for that many iterations before stopping. 

Participants

Select the Manager's Name from the dropdown who the Program is being created for and then click the Employees Dropdown.

You have 3 choices when selecting participants:

All Employees Managed enrolls all Users who you manage via Groups and User's individual settings. 

Employees Managed Within Specific Groups prompts you to select one or more Groups which you manage to enroll in the Program.

Specific Employees I Manage prompts you to manually select which users you will enroll in the Program.

Questions

What questions will you ask your contributors? Questions can be required or optional. 

If you're feeling stuck, we've compiled a Question Library to help get some ideas flowing. 

Pro Tip: Want to rotate weekly questions? Build multiple coaching programs on alternating cadences to keep things fresh. 

Attribution Metrics (optional)

Define up to three Metrics that you would like tracked/correlated for the duration of the Program. Similar to defining an objective, if your Program has a specific purpose (and typically, an explicit start and end date) we recommend establishing attribution Metrics. 

For example, if you're running an eight week Program around setting great appointments you can define "Appointments Held" and "Appointments Set" as your attribution metrics to determine the Program's effectiveness over time, per-person.

If you're running a standard, weekly check-in, it probably does not make sense to set attribution. 

Note that these cannot be changed once the Program is saved.

Finishing Up

4. Click the green + Create Program button to save your Coaching Program. 

Employees will be notified via an email upon creation with Coaching Program details. Additionally, employees will receive emails per recurrence at the day and time you've chosen.