Champion Selection Scorecard
Coaches are not volunteers and not the loudest enthusiasts. They are the colleagues whose team output visibly shifted in the last six months. Score candidates on proximity to the real work, credibility with peers, and whether their time can actually be protected.
Use when standing up an internal coaching layer and the instinct is to appoint champions by enthusiasm.
Solves: Designating champions without time on the calendar produces unpaid emotional labour, then burnout, then a quiet end six months later.
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Step 1: List everyone whose team output visibly shifted in the last six months. Names, with their team (10 min).
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Step 2: Score each on three axes: proximity to the real work, credibility with peers, protectable time (10 min).
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Step 3: Strike anyone whose time cannot be protected. Enthusiasm without hours is not a coach (5 min).
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Step 4: For each survivor, write what comes off their plate to make room. If nothing does, strike them too (10 min).
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Step 5: Name three. Book a 30-minute conversation with each before Friday.
- One coach per team, a member of that team — not a central function.
- Half a day per week, on the calendar, is the minimum that works.
- Make the role real before the conversation. Coaches volunteer themselves once they see it is real.