Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Chapter Eight

COACHING PROGRAMS

Moving Beyond the One-on-One

Lorraine Stomski, Janis Ward, and Mariangela Battista

The practice of executive coaching has grown rapidly in recent years (Corporate Leadership Council, 2003). Research has found that though there is a preference for executive coaching among executives, this developmental tool was found to be more costly than other leadership development activities and organizations were rarely managing coaching investments in a coordinated or consistent manner (Corporate Leadership Council, 2003).

Coaching engagements in organizations can be quite unfocused in that coaching is provided based on the merits of an individual request rather than the business needs and requirements. An organization can ...