QUESTIONS
What are
others saying about coaching?
“Coaching is
the place a client can think what they've never thought,
say what they've never said, dream what they've never
dreamt, feel what they've never felt and achieve what
they've never thought possible."
~ Dave Ellis
http://www.FallingAwake.com
http://www.BrandeFoundation.org
http://www.LifeCoachBook.com
"Most
leaders like executive coaching because: they receive
direct one-on-one assistance from someone they respect;
they don’t have to leave their offices; it fits their
timeframes and schedules; they can see fast results, if
they’re dedicated.”
~ Training &
Development, 3/1/99
“Executives
and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool
for inducing positive personal change, ensuring
better-than-average odds of success and making the
change stick for the long term.”
~ Chicago
Tribune, 12/17/00
“Clients
also say that coaches give them a fresh perspective. ‘A
lot of times you’re fighting fires and don’t see an
easier way to solve the problem,’ Parkurst says. The
objective, distanced view of a coach can also lead to
new ways of looking at issues because the coach’s ideas
aren’t limited by politics or a position within the
company.”
~ Infoworld,
5/24/99
“Personal
coaches are a hot commodity among executives these
days. Never mind the mansion, the Mercedes, the
membership in the exclusive country club. In corporate
America today, the sign that you have truly arrived—or
at least that you are being groomed for arrival—is an
executive coach. Your own personal coach, that is.
Even if the coach’s assignment is to render you less
obnoxious, his or her presence at your elbow signals
that you are regarded by the company as entirely too
valuable to fire or shoot.”
~ Training,
3/1/98
“Across
corporate America, coaching sessions at many companies
have become as routine for executives a budget forecasts
and quota meeting.”
~ Gary
Stern, “A Coached CEO Can Be That Winning Edge”,
Investor’s Business Daily, 2/28/00
“How do you
provide career development as a just-in-time,
bottom-line-driven business activity? For an increasing
number of organizations, the answer seems to be
executive coaching. In recent years, there has been an
explosion in its use.”
~
Organizational Dynamics, 1/1/99
“For years,
business people have used corporate coaches to help
their companies work more effectively. Now, an
increasing number of individuals are turning to coaches
for help in finding balance in their personal lives.”
~ The
Spokane Spokesman Review, 12/15/98
"Today’s
managers, professionals, and entrepreneurs are hiring
coaches to help them with time management, a change in
career, or balancing their work and personal lives.
People are looking to coaches as sounding boards and
motivators who can offer a fresh perspective on career
and life problems—but without the conflicting agendas of
a spouse, family member, or even a mentor.”
~ Fortune,
9/28/98
“The
coaching relationship also has a unique structure.
After an initial assessment of the client’s situation,
the coach and client set specific goals for the client.
In each subsequent meeting with the client, the coach
determines what goals have been met and why other goals
were not. Different set of goals is agreed upon for the
following meeting. The coach prods the client to keep
to the action plan.”
~ The
Business Journal, April 1999
“The hottest
thing in management is the executive coach…Coaches are
everywhere these days…Corporate coaches are in such
demand that they can charge from $600 to $2,000 a month
for three or four 30- to 60-minute phone conversations.”
~ Fortune,
5/21/00
"Once used
to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of
the standard leadership development training for elite
executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola,
J. P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These
companies are discreetly giving their best prospects
what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to
help reach their goals.”
~ CNN.com,
5/28/01
"People who
want to stand out at work or face a job crisis
increasingly turn to career coaches. There are now an
estimated 10,000 coaches nationwide, up from 5,300 in
1998.”
~ The Wall
Street Journal, 6/26/01
“The goal of
coaching is the goal of good management—to make the most
of an organization’s valuable resources.”
~ J.
Waldroop & T. Butler, “The Executive as Coach,”
Harvard Business Review, November-December 1996
"Executive
coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who
value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing
in common, it’s that they’re ruthlessly
results-oriented.”
~ Claire
Tristan, Fast Company, October 1996
“A coach may
be the guardian angel you need to rev up your career.”
~ Money, 7/1/97

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