BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Coaching
- the development of somebody's skills and knowledge through one-to-one training. Coaching is usually conducted by a more senior and experienced colleague. It involves planned training activities that have measurable outcomes and is designed to facilitate learning by providing guidance and support as well as tutoring. Executive coaching is a form of coaching used with senior managers.
Additional Resources
- Coaching in Business
- Coaching is in the ascendancy in the business world. As in sports, coaching in business is associated with helping people to channel their talent and express their full potential.There are many benefits to effective coaching. Not only does the financial investment return many-fold, but also productivity rates rise; the capacity...
- Articles 2007-10-31
- Managers Value Coaching -- But They Don't Do It
- Ten years ago, the current economic forecasts would've had UK businesses reaching for their sharpest downsizing tool. But there's much more feistiness today, according to Tom Barry, European managing director at BlessingWhite, the engagement, leadership and coaching specialists. "Businesses are saying, 'let's fight and innovate our...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
- Executive Coaching Is Hot
- Driving the trend in executive coaching is the economy which makes good staff hard to get and harder to keep. In the need for constant change to stay competitive, companies see coaching as a way to help valued employees develop swiftly in the changing business environment. Professional coaching is an...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Why Coaching Is the Way To Go In Team Management
- Coaching is no longer reserved to sports teams. It is now one of the key concepts in leadership and management. So why is coaching popular? Coaching levels the playing field. Moreover, it is a behavior or role that leaders enforce in the context of situational leadership. As a leadership style,...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Performance Coaching For Broadcast Salespeople, Including Discipline Without Punishment
- Imagine a professional football team whose coach never gives the players any encouragement or instructions on how to play their positions better. The result would be a demoralized team that became worse, which is a certain scenario for losing, falling to last place, and staying there. Being a pro-active,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Coaching - Maximizing Personnel Potential
- The article asserts that all organizations are faced with the challenge of filling positions with people who have the requisite knowledge and skills to perform. More and more, companies are realizing that the ability to build bench strength quickly yields a competitive advantage. There are essentially two ways to acquire...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Perceptions Of Coaching In Product Development Teams
- With the role of coaching assuming an increasingly important role in project-based courses and also in industry, especially as projects move towards distributed settings, it is critical to understand how to maximally benefit from coaching. Based on a conceptual foundation of coaching, composed of five coaching roles carefully characterized to...
- White papers 2005-08-22
- Employee Coaching: When to Step In and When Not To
- There are a number of reasons responsible for employing effective business coaching within an organization. People often tend to get confused between employee coaching and training. Employee training is imparting the necessary knowledge and skills required for doing the job. Unlike employee training, coaching is a continuous process, which helps...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Coaching Skills
- Coaching skills are not "Found," they are actively "Developed" by people who want to lead and be an influence in their organization. Coaching takes some time but not a lot of time. Time is an important ingredient and you will need discipline to manage all the priorities and business demands...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Call Centers Are Missing Opportunities to Attain Company Goals by Overlooking the Importance of Coaching; Knowlagent Study Finds Parallel Between State of Today's Call Center Coaching and Early Days of Customer Relationship Management
- ATLANTA -- Coaching in the call center is one of the highest impact - as well as one of the most often underutilized - means to achieve company goals, concludes a new research study announced today by Knowlagent. Knowlagent's white paper, "Why Aren't They Coaching in the Call Center?" summarizes...
- Research articles 2005-11-10
- LSI Communications Signs Letter of Intent To Acquire Coaching Institute; World Leader in Coaching is Perfect Compliment to Technology
- DRAPER, Utah--BUSINESS WIRE--March 9, 1999--LSI Communications, Inc. (OTC BB:LSIM) announced today the signing of a letter of intent to acquire Coaching Institute Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah. Coaching Institute is one of the nation's leaders in professional coaching and is growing at a phenomenal rate. Sales increased...
- Research articles 1999-03-09
- "Executive Coaching Credentials Vary: Due Diligence is a Must
- So many individuals call themselves a coach today that anyone interested in hiring a coach must be cautious. The fact that trainers, spiritual advisors, consultants, bar tenders and television personalities often refer to themselves as "coach" makes it difficult to distinguish a true resource from all the hype. This coaching...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- "Executive Coaching - Helping Leaders Reach Peak Performance
- Executive coaches have drawn comparisons to everything from athletic coaches to mentors to personal psychologists to trusted confidants. Whatever the analogy, the role of the professional coach is an important one, as he or she serves as both a catalyst and facilitator of individual development and performance. Executive coaches...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Article: Coaching & Mentoring
- The article is about strategic executive coaching. It states that the ultimate value of Strategic Executive Coaching SEC is that it improves bottom-line results by enhancing the effectiveness of executives. SEC ensures that actions taken and changes made during the coaching process are consistent with the organization's vision, values, and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Roots and Boundaries of Executive Coaching
- Article concludes that the profession of executive coaching is built on new concepts of human potential at work. The goal of coaching is not fixing what is broken, but in discovering new talents and new ways to use old talents that lead to far greater effectiveness. The goal is to...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Coaching as a Transformational Leadership Competency: The Business Case for Coaching
- Coaching is early not a fad but a clear trend in leadership communication. However, most organizations are unclear about coaching, what it is and how it should be integrated into organizational systems. The following discussion addresses those issues and outlines clearly how to promote development in an organization by using...
- White papers 2002-05-12
- Improve employee performance with these coaching and delegation techniques
- Don't be satisfied with being a good manager—become a great one by practicing the techniques of effective coaching and successful delegation that will transform your team into the best that it can be. In this sample chapter from Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, learn how to assess...
- Book chapters 2006-11-22
- Business Coaching Improves Executive Performance
- Business coaching is a partnership between the coach and the client. It is a level where the coach and the client quite effortlessly become a part of great results, in the quickest possible time. Coaches are generally counselors, who discuss the problems with the clients and help them solve the...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Professional Coaching - Discerning Substance From Spin
- The last few years has seen a significant increase in interest in professional coaching. The profession is receiving regular attention in the media and, more and more, the public are becoming aware of it as a service offering-be that some variant of business coaching or life coaching. Accessing and understanding...
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Getting the Most Out of Executive Coaching
- When used for the right reasons and with competent practitioners, executive coaching can provide significant and lasting benefits for both individuals and organizations. But like other innovations, coaching can become just another business fad. When not effective, it can cause harm to individuals and organizations and waste large amounts of...
- White papers
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