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"When you understand the definition of coaching, it
seems that everyone should have one!" SAUSALITO.net
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"I
estimate that I was able to add more than £15 million of
extra value through interventions I initiated directly linked to what I had
learnt in coaching." JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT
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"We've
done lots of research over the past three years, and we've found that
leaders who have the best coaching skills have better business results." VP
of Global Executive & Organizational Development at IBM, TIME
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"Coaching
is the only cost-effective way to reinforce new behaviors and skills until a
learner is through the dangerous results dip. Once through the dip, when the
new skills bring results, they will become self-reinforcing." TRAINING AND
DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL
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"Corporations
believe that coaching helps keep employees and that the dollar investment in
it is far less than the cost of replacing an employee." TIME
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"I never
cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the
skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which
invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable."
John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.
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"Asked
for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from the coaching they
got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or
about six times what the coaching had cost their companies." FORTUNE
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"Leaders
view themselves more as a coach than the person in charge." Frank Blount,
former CEO of TELSTRA
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"Coaching
- which can help managers talk with subordinates about their developmental
needs - absolutely affects the relationship positively." TIME
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"Tiger
Woods has one. Pete Sampras has one. So why not small business owners?"
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"Most
executives seek out a coach when they know they need to make improvements,
but they don't know how to do it. It's like baseball. If we were swinging
the bat perfectly we wouldn't have coaches." Barbara Brannen, former VP of
Human Resources for Qwest Communications
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"Coaches
provide inspiration, and consultants provide information." Jeremy Robinson,
President of Robinson Capital
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"You've
really got to have someone from the outside who says, 'All right John, what
are we out to achieve? Why are these good goals? Why is this a good
strategy?' and then hold you accountable." TAIPEI TIMES
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" 'Very
Satisfactory'...This was the way clients most frequently rated the overall
effectiveness of their coaching...The positive image of executive coaching
in business media and the continued growth of the practice are supported by
client experience." ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
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"Her year
of coaching 'was like a grenade in my life that's still going
off.'...Coaches can help people come to grips with huge changes in the way
we do work, in getting through big transitions." FORTUNE
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" 'Here,
it's my agenda, not the coach's. We're really defining what my goals are,
the best courses of actions, and what am I diverging from. I have a lot less
stress about changes, as well as an ability to see clearly what needs to be
done to better position myself.' " Senior engineer at MCI, in INFOWORLD
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"Coaching
simply speeds up a process of change that would most likely occur anyway if
an individual had enough time. Without a coaching program that forces a
client to focus and make time, people sometimes miss the real issues they
need to focus on." THE IVY BUSINESS JOURNAL
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"Business
coaching often leads to personal insights. Clients are better able to deal
with obstacles and change. It's easier to balance work life with their
personal life. And in some cases, it gives them the courage to pursue a
dream. THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC
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"How
do you provide career development as a just-in-time, bottom-line-driven
business activity? For an increasing number of organizations, the answer
seems to be executive coaching."
ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
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"Executive coaches are not for the meek. They're for people who value
unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common; it's that
they're ruthlessly results-oriented."
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