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Coaching Articles on the Internet

Here are some selected articles available on the web about coaching for businesses and individuals.  The opinions expressed in the articles are the opinions of the article authors and are not necessarily our opinions.  But we believe these fairly represent the practice of coaching.

Note:  We try to update this list at least monthly. If you find that one of these links does not work, please send us an email identifying which link did not work, so we can review it promptly.  If you know of other articles available for free on the internet that you think we should consider, please send us that link and we will review it (We do not include articles on websites that require the users to register or pay for access.  As a general rule, we also exclude articles that promote specific coaching businesses).

General Articles on Coaching

• Coaching vs. Psychotherapy  Choice Magazine

"Even though they look similar, Patrick Williams, Ed.D., MCC, tells us how coaching and therapy differ."

Coaching Benefits

• Good-bye, couch. Hello, coach.  usaweekend.com

"Coaches help clients navigate their warp-speed lives and sort through the mental clutter of the Information Age."

• The Benefits Of Hiring A Business Coach - Business Solutions

"POS VAR Entertainment Data Solutions, Inc. (EDSI) suffered through "growing pains" until a business coach put the company on track. Today, EDSI markets to more high-end customers — and realizes larger profits — in the family entertainment center market. Can a business coach do the same for your company?"

• Bigger & Better - BCBusiness

"With coaching, one becomes more accomplished with less effort invested due to working smarter. Many entrepreneurs will also argue that one of the biggest benefits is lower blood pressure."

• Case Study on the Return on Investment
  of Executive Coaching

"Coaching produced a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business. Including the financial benefits from employee retention boosted the overall ROI to 788%."

• Coaching increases productivity and morale - SouthCoast Today

"In the last decade, workplace coaching has gained increasing popularity. So much so that experts predict some form soon will be used in every corporate office and in most small businesses across the country."

Managers as Coaches

• Cultivating a coaching culture - British Medical Journal

"Promoting a coaching or mentoring culture requires a much broader formalisation of it and resourcing of it than that which takes place at present. The benefits of mentoring should not be available only to the few who happen to stumble on it by accident, are fortunate enough to be allocated a competent mentor, or who have an inherent aptitude for developing mentorships because of good interpersonal skills. Working towards a coaching culture could make the benefits of better human communications available to all."

• Why Managers Fail as Coaches - Selling Strategies

"Jack Welch, the former General Electric CEO, believes that great management revolves around developing great people. As far as he's concerned, that's a manager's No. 1 job. I rarely meet a sales manager who doesn't agree. If pushed, they tell me that developing people is their top priority, too. In reality, though, developing people falls low on almost all sales managers' priority lists."

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