From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching

Chapter 12

Trends in Team and Group Coaching

The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

—Emily Greene Balch¹

So, what's next? Where do we go from here?

The 2012 ICF Global Coaching Survey indicated that key issues facing the coaching profession in general are:

• tackling obstacles such as untrained individuals who call themselves coaches;
• availing of opportunities to increase awareness of coaching benefits; and
• answering the question of whether coaching should be regulated.

The top two opportunities identified in the ICF Global Coaching Survey are:

• increased awareness of the benefits of coaching (36 percent); and
• credible data ...