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 ...
