This is a question that anyone involved in coaching - from both sides - client and coach wonder about.
There is a thread on LinkedIn with the same title that is well commented, some are a bit too eclectic for my liking but others I can connect quite easily with and understand.
I think that the question is too complex for one, single answer.
Every coaching contract that we embark upon is different - we are dealing with people, after all.
That said, I am coaching a person at the moment - we are 60% through the contract at present.
In the last session, he told me that he has realised - although I stress this from the start - that the coaching, although sponsored by his company - is for himself and that when he works on himself, the knock-on effect will naturally trigger improvements in his professional life.
I suppressed the desire to shout Eureka .... but I think this is, in this particular context, a sign that coaching has worked, by heightening a person's consciousness and awareness of their own development process - that will do for me.
It would be interesting for our readers to read what you feel is a sign that Coaching has worked - please comment and share.
