Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Sourcing Coaches

Recently (out of sheer curiosity) I spent several weeks searching for coaches on the Internet, particularly on YouTube. What I found was so humorous I felt compelled to compile a video of the findings to parade about in my public presentations. The audience is laughing heavily while watching “coaches” of all kinds (such as mortgage coaches, writing coaches, life coaches, even a divorce coach), some doing some incredible antics—presenting from the shower, while driving, or just trying to appear professional wearing a suit in their own kitchen. My recommendation is not to search for a coach this way!

Where (instead) do organizations go to find coaches in the first place? Do they search the Web, inquire with their current networks, ...