Team Coaches

In this document you can find what you should expect from your team coach or, as team coach, what you should regard as your responsibilities. This document presents the expectations for team coaches on:

  • Coaching
  • Career Plan
  • The different feedback moments (i.e. Monthly Team Retrospectives, Quarterly Check-in and Yearly 360s)
  • HiBob Management
  • Salaries & Promotions

Coaching

As a team coach, you should be able to coach individual team captains through regular 1-on-1 sessions, as well as the teams for which you are responsibile to identify their strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and create action plans for their personal and professional development.

Career Development Plan

As a team coach, you are responsible for conducting thorough reviews of each team member’s career plan to ensure they align with the company’s and partners’ goals and values and making recommendations for improvements or adjustments as necessary.

What’s the timeline?

Goal Development Guidelines:

  • You may incorporate personal goals as long as they are relevant but don’t forget to also incorporate the yearly feedback gathered from partners and peers.
  • Use the “Template Career Plan” available in the template gallery on Google Docs.
  • All goals must be set using the SMART format (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound).

Draft Submission to Coach:

  • Deadline: mid February.
  • Action: Create a draft of your career plan and share it with your coach. Notify him upon submission.

Coach Review:

  • After submitting the drafts, the coach will review them, provide feedback and set up a call if necessary.
  • Timeframe: Between mid and end of February.

Hibob:

  • Ensure all goals are set in Hibob by the end February.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your Team Coach.

Feedback

Team coaches are expected to provide constant feedback to their direct reports by performing regular team retrospectives and during Performance Reviews).

Monthly Team Retrospectives

  • The team coach has the responsibility to facilitate the monthly team retrospectives
  • It’s expected to reflect on recent successes and challenges, identify areas for improvement, and collaboratively develop strategies to address them
  • This initiative is supported by the team captain and it should happen each month, however it can depend on each team necessity

Quarterly Check-in

Every 3 months, there should be a performance review. The most relevant and detailed should be done in the end of the year. The performance review will be split into Internal Feedback and Client Feedback.

Internal Feedback

Performance from a 25Friday perspective (e.g. direct leads, work on tech talks, proactiveness in 25Friday activities)

Client Feedback

Performance from the client perspective. Team coaches are expected to:

  • In case we have a new client during the OnBoarding meeting communicate them that in 1 month time you will set a quick call to discuss the performance.
  • Schedule a client feedback meeting, every quarter, where you will ask areas to improve
  • Communicate all feedback but focus on *acting fast in case of negative or constructive feedback that you may have from the client

Yearly 360s

The 360º Yearly Performance Review is an in-depth performance review with the following timeline:

December:

  • Google form asking for detailed performance feedback;
  • Team members at 25Friday from the same partner will have the opportunity to review their peers.

January:

  • Set a meeting to review and discuss the feedback of each team member;
  • Management team will review all feedback and discuss what would be the salary adjustment according to the received feedback (if applicable).

HiBob Management

The Team coach is responsible for all the HiBob management, ensuring that all requests (i.e. holidays) and information are handled efficiently and effectively.

Salaries & Career Communication

Salary and Career communication will be in January. For that reason we will have to gather feedback from the team/client.

Team coaches are expected to communicate Salary and Career status and should always focus on facts to base the decision.

Promotions

As part of the mentoring cycle, we expect teams coaches to pay attention to people that should be promoted soon.

Promotions need to be planned in advance between all parties, i.e. 25Friday (Coaches and Management) and the partner, and should be proposed on a factual basis considering the employee’s career plan, feedback reports and competence assessment according to the company-wide Competency Framework.

A promotion proposal needs to be prepared by the team coach so that a proper review may be conducted and ultimately authorized.

The promotion proposal must be supported by a few paragraphs explaining its reasoning, objectives and key results for the next period, along with a clear assessment of the candidate’s skills and be directed at the Management Team.

An example assessment can be found here

Q: When the promotions must be communicated to the partners?

The promotions must be communicated within the first six months of each calendar year. That means the personal development plan needs to be prepared accordingly at the beginning of the year and shared with the client. The end of June is the last moment when we can share the promotion’s plans with the partners.

Q: When can the employee get a promotion?

The normal promotion cycle will happen in January, even though there are a few exceptions where the employee can be promoted and July.