Helen Peters reports in her blog entitled "The Case for Coaching" that organizations benefit greatly when they engage coaches to coach managers and executives. She also reveals that improving the qualities of executives and managers today are even more critical to success than ever before, when she writes “a majority of CEOs across industries and geographies view maximizing the productivity of their current leaders and developing the next generation of leaders as mission critical.”

Based upon the lousy performances of many CEO’s in the recent history, and how their poor decisions have wrecked so many corporations, it is clear that investments to improve the leadership, integrity, and productivity of any CEO are worth far more to the corporation than can be imagined. I would estimate that if any of the CEO’s that drove their corporations to disaster had engaged their own coach, that they would have made much better decisions to most likely greatly reduce, if not prevented their corporate failures.

Helen further reports: “Executive coaching provides:

• Development that is specific to the individual leader and his or her unique needs.

• Clearly-defined, measurable objectives and outcomes that are collectively agreed to by the boss, the leader being coached and the coach.

• Observable behavioral change and business impact in four to six months.”

We at TCC do not agree that determining the goals of coaching is a collective process. We only have one boss, our individual client, and we only consider coachable goals defined by our clients.

Helen further reports that: “Organizations that are using coaching to maximize leadership bench strength and get the best return on development dollars are increasingly looking for coaching vendors who can provide:

• A cadre of prequalified coaches.

• Consistent coaching services across organizational boundaries.

• Validated and appropriate coaching tools and techniques.

• An understanding of global leadership issues.

• Partnership with the organization in defining, tracking and measuring success.”

The Coach Connection has been providing these benefits to anyone for over 7.5 years and has a long and rich history of successes to prove that these conditions do work.

Her report was generated completely independent of The Coach Connection. We have no connection with Helen Peters.