Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Chapter Six

MAXIMIZING IMPACT

Creating Successful Partnerships Between Coaches and Organizations

Erica Desrosiers and David H. Oliver

Executive coaching in organizations has the potential to bring value that far exceeds the sum of each individual coaching engagement in isolation. This added value is often the result of developing true partnerships between the coaches and the organization. As coaches and organizations work in partnership, coaching moves beyond just developing coachees into better leaders. There is the potential for the culture to be transformed, for practices learned through coaching to spread virally through the organization, to create an environment where development through coaching is accepted, even facilitated, and for leaders ...