What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

What's So Great About Coaching Anyway?

If you’re pondering the bigger questions about coaching this week, here are what some have said:

“…[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader, part manager and part strategist.”
- The Business Journal

“Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them to shore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Division heads hire them as change agents. Workers at all levels of the corporate ladder, fed up with a lack of advice from inside the company, are taking matters into their own hands and enlisting coaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boost their profits, and make better decisions about everything from personnel to strategy.”
- Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?”
Fortune

“The demand for Executive Coaches has skyrocketed over the past 5 years…today’s executive coach (EC) is intended to help leaders and potential leaders across the rocky, wild, and challenging road of organizational growth in today’s dynamic and unstable work environment…”
- The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,
American Psychological Association

“What’s really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180…as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting on motorcycles…the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how to not fall off.”
- John Kotter, Professor of Leadership,
Harvard Business School

“Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies have become as routine for executives as budget forecasts and quota meetings.”
- Gary Stern, “A Coached CEO Can Be that Winning Edge,”
Investor’s Business Daily

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