What Are the Academic Findings About the Impact of Coaching on Individual and Organizational Performance?

Abstract

[Excerpt] The definition of coaching has evolved alongside developments in Organizational Psychology and Human Resources. One such definition is, “a helping and facilitative process that enables individuals, groups/teams and organizations to acquire new skills, to improve existing skills, competence and performance, and to enhance their personal effectiveness or personal development or personal growth.” For this Executive Summary, we mainly focus on two subsets of coaching: Manager and Executive coaching.