3V Coaching Plan: Connecting Coaching to Performance
When my coaching becomes reactive, it loses its power.
Often my teams are busy, their leaders stretched, and as a coach I unintentionally end up responding to the noise rather than focusing on the work that will truly lift performance.
I’ve found a 3V Coaching Plan creates just the right amount of structure. It keeps me focused while fitting into the natural rhythm of teams working in today’s crazy busy world.
3V - Value, Velocity and Vitality - connects coaching effort to team performance by grounding every action in the 3V Performance Framework goals.
What is a 3V Coaching Plan?
A 3V Coaching Plan is how the 3V Performance Framework turns into practical coaching.
The framework defines what to focus on. The plan translates that focus into visible, trackable action that aligns coaching with real team outcomes.
It helps me decide where to spend energy and how to align that effort with the goals of both the team and their leaders.
3V integrates naturally into existing operational rhythms. It encourages balanced, positive action across three essential areas:
Value - focusing on what’s important.
Velocity - playing the game at pace.
Vitality - ensuring we stay the distance.
These areas complement each other but also compete for attention. The tension between them is what drives balanced performance. The coaching plan helps prioritise effort, and make that tension visible and manageable.
If you want to learn more about the 3V Performance Framework, then explore how 3V helps teams unlock their potential and how leaders can strengthen their agile governance.
3V Performance Poker builds on that by surfacing insights from both leaders and teams.
The 3V Coaching Plan takes those insights and shapes them into a clear, time-boxed plan that directs coaching effort to where it will make the biggest difference.
Each plan is transparent and socialised. It’s not a private document. Everyone can see what’s being coached and how it connects to performance.
It captures clear Goals → Actions → Outcomes for the priority areas, creating a shared understanding of focus and progress.
Why We Love It
Coaching can easily drift into good intentions without clear outcomes.
Having a 3V Coaching Plan means that the effort becomes visible and purposeful. It helps me stay focused on the work that actually improves performance, not just the conversations around it.
I love it because it:
Creates visibility so everyone knows what’s being coached and why.
Keeps coaching aligned with leadership intent and priorities.
Links leadership vision with the team’s everyday work.
Turns coaching activity into measurable, trackable progress.
Builds momentum by acting as a coaching backlog that evolves over time.
When We Use It
I use a 3V Coaching Plan when:
At the start of a coaching engagement to get to know a new team.
In a multiple team environment to encourage cross team performance insights.
To provide leadership with visibility of coaching priorities and progress.
Where organisational change introduces new team performance expectations.
Aligning coaching cycles with broader planning rhythms, e.g. release periods or Big Room Planning.
Each plan runs for a distinct period - usually 6–8 weeks - matching the team’s delivery cadence.
That rhythm creates natural points for review, reflection and reset.
How We Do It
A 3V Coaching Plan usually evolves through six steps.
The plan only works when it’s shared. We keep it visible, review it regularly, and adjust it as new priorities emerge.
Coaching is a partnership. The best progress comes when everyone can see the plan and has a hand in shaping it.
Gather Inputs
I start by gathering insights from 3V Performance Poker, retrospectives, leadership conversations and delivery metrics.
This helps us see where performance could lift and where coaching might have the biggest impact.Prioritise Focus
I don’t set goals under every V as coaching spreads thin if you try to tackle everything at once.
Together with the team and their leader, we identify one or two high-priority areas - often sitting under Team Capability or Team Progress - that will make the greatest difference in the next cycle.
These shared priorities become the backbone of the plan.Set Goals
Once the focus areas are clear, we agree on the specific goals for this period.
The goals describe what improvement will look and feel like for the team, not just what activity will happen.
Everyone contributes - the leader provides context, the team brings practical insight, and my role is to help translate that into something achievable and measurable.Agree Actions
We decide how to move forward together.
I’m clear about the role I’ll play, using one or more of the four coaching hats:
🎓 Trainer – teaching and reinforcing ideas.
🧭 Facilitator – guiding the process so the team makes it real in their own context.
🤝 Deliverer – rolling up my sleeves to deliver results alongside them.
💡 Mentor – listening, reflecting, and sharing experience to help shape the path ahead.
The team owns their actions too as this keeps momentum between sessions and makes the outcomes theirs, not mine.Review and Align with the Leader
Before the plan is final, I sit down with the leader to check alignment on priorities, timeframes, and how progress will be shared.
This ensures the plan supports both team needs and leadership goals.
From there, we’re ready to make the work visible and start the cycle.Report and Reflect
At the end of the period, we look back together on what’s been achieved and what’s been learned.
We reflect on both the tangible outcomes - things like flow, clarity, and delivery - and the less tangible ones such as confidence, trust, or energy.
Those insights feed directly into the next cycle of prioritisation.
Things to Look Out For
Prioritise your effort - ensure focus is in the right place. You can’t do everything at once.
Share the plan early and often - visibility builds trust and keeps everyone aligned.
Balance the focus - Velocity is easy to chase, but Value and Vitality are what unlock sustainable performance.
Keep it time-boxed - clear boundaries create momentum and help everyone stay on track.
Be clear about your role - naming which hat you’re wearing avoids confusion and sets the right expectations.
Use real evidence - combine insights from 3V Performance Poker with leadership observations to get a complete picture.
Treat it like a backlog - review and adjust it often so coaching effort stays relevant and useful.
Try It With Your Team
Run a quick 3V Performance Poker session with the team and the leader to identify where performance feels strongest and weakest.
Use those insights to draft your first Goals → Actions → Outcomes table for the next cycle.
Review it together, agree priorities, and share it openly.
Then use it to guide your coaching rhythm and track progress over time.
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Our RAFT Series
✦ 3V Coaching Plan is one of our CoLab RAFTs - Rapid Agile Forecasting & Tracking techniques. Practical tools we use every day in our coaching and training to help teams make work visible and performance-focused.
Updated on 6 November 2025
