Coaching in the workplace

Businesses are focused on wealth creation. Among all the important resources utilised, the human contribution is vital and needs to be managed with utmost competence and efficiency.

Not only globally is the use of coaches expanding at a rapid rate, but also locally more and more high profile Managers and Leaders are using coaching as tool to reach their targets. By 2012 there were an estimated 41 300 active coaches worldwide (ICF, 2012).

The coach travels the journey of development and improvement with the individual

until solutions are found. “Coaching can sometimes be the only modality that identifies and removes the barriers getting in the way of the success of the leader or team.” (ICF, 2013)

The business benefits from this complex process, and individuals experience the value in their personal lives as well

Professional coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organisations. Through the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life.

International Coach Federation (2005)

The business is focused on wealth creation, It asks the coach, in working with a client, to make a difference to the business through generating changes that make sense for the individual in the context of the

organisation.

M S Kahn (2014)

The optimization of unrealized potential through the development of talent and the refinement of effective skills from unsatisfying, limited (average) performance to enhanced or outstanding effectiveness.

Rock & Page (2009)