What is the world saying about coaching? | Faith · Focus

What is the world saying about coaching?

Fortune 2/00 “The hottest thing in management is the executive coach.”
Chicago Tribune 12/17/00 “Who, exactly, seeks out a coach?...Winners who want even more out of life.”
Business Week Investor 10/22/01 “Personal coaches provide powerful professional insights. My personal advice: Get one.”
Time 10/16/00 “Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals.”
Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.”
Fortune 2/19/01 “Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, their managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.”
CNN.com 5/28/01 “The personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.”
Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune 5/26/98 “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.”
Harvard Business Review “The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.”