What is coaching? Coaching is a powerful, collaborative relationship between a coach and a willing individual which enables, through a process of discovery, goal setting, and strategic actions, the realization of extraordinary results. It is the art and practice of bridging the gap from where the client is to a more fully expressed life.
There
are an estimated 10,000 part-time and full-time coaches worldwide. The number
of people entering the emerging field of personal and business coaching has
doubled in size each of the past three years.
Coach U estimates that
250,000 people have been coached since the inception of the profession, about
ten years ago.
Individuals and corporations
are now hiring business and personal coaches at an unprecedented pace to be
their combination mentor, taskmaster, motivational speaker, management consultant
and sounding board.
Several hundred articles,
TV and radio shows have been done on coaching in the last three years. Coaching
has been written about in Newsweek, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report,
Fortune, Money, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Inc.,
Nation's Business, Fast Company, Industry Week, Management Review, Kiplinger's
Personal Finance, Bloomberg Personal, Newsday, Utne Reader, etc. It is also
featured on "Oprah!" and CNN's "Impact".