Here are some articles and quotes on coaching. In the near future we will be adding a section on articles, books and other media from Minnesota coaches. If you have an article or quote on coaching please send it to our

Coach Credentialing
Peer Resources Network has recently completed an extensive review of credentialing & created a Guide to Credentials In Coaching available at http://www.mentors.ca/coaching.html

ADD & Coaching
Office Messes New York Times Magazine July 18 2004
 
Business Coaching
Making Coaching Work For You New Business Aug 25, 2004
 
Coaching and buying coaching services Report of HR departments CIPD Report June 2004
 
How coaching can transform 'management course syndrome' Jun 30 2004 Sion Barry, The Western Mail
 
Let a Business Coach Offer New Perspective Wall Street Journal - Startup Journal

Life Coaching
When I Say Work, I Mean Work!: A good life coach can make many minutes of your day harder -- and your entire existence Business 2.0 February 2004
 
Horse Sense - Some Life Coaches are Enlisting Equine Assistants to Help Their Clients Learn About Themselves. St. Paul Pioneer Press, June 1, 2003
 
My Coach and I. Strategy-Business.com Knowledge Review, Summer 2003

General Articles
Books in Brief - Blockbusters: The Five Keys to Developing Great New Products. Strategy-Business.com Knowledge Review, Summer 2003

Coach for 'Team You'. Many Who Want A Winning Record in the Game of Life Are Skipping the Shrink and Hiring a Life Coach Instead. Washington Post, June 10, 2003.
 
The Inner Game of Business - Thomas Leonard built an industry out of the contradictions in himself. This Fortune magazine article traces the history of the coaching industry and the enormous contribution of the deceased Thomas Leonard to the cause. Fortune Small Business, May 2, 2003
 
In business, as in sports, a good coach can make all the difference between winning and losing. This Jacksonvile Times Union article outlines why people are choosing coaches and the benefits they are getting. Jacksonville Times Union, June 1, 2003
 
The (Un)Therapists. This article discusses how "Life coaches" won't drag up bad memories. They will tell you what to do--and how to win big. Time Magazine, October 16, 2000
 
Report on the Benefits of Business Coaching. A study of 100 executives who received coaching shows the coaching programs delivered an average ROI of 5.7 times the initial investment. Business Wire, January 4, 2001

Survey Reveals Emerging Profession of Coaching Having Measurable Impact on Clients. The International Coaching Federation polled 210 coaching clients and found that the profession, still in its infancy, produced significant results for recipients in multiple areas. International Coach Federation, 1999
 
Case Study: Coaching The Stretch Assignment. A top executive is put into a new challenge despite concerns about communication style and subject expertise. Hiring a coach helps him with listening skills and subject expertise. The assignment produced almost immediate results. Human Resource Management, July 12, 2001

Executive Coaching: Is it a Benefit or a Danger to Your Organization?This article describes what executive coaching is, how it works and lists issues of concern about corporations hiring coaches. It concludes that executive coaching is here to stay. People need guidance, support and meaningful interaction that can all come from an executive coach with corporate experience. Human Resource Management, May 3, 2000

Executive Briefing: Case Study on the Return on Investment of Executive Coaching. Article taken from the ICF site on the ROI of executive coaching. The bottom line: coaching produced a 529% ROI and other intangible benefits. MetrixGlobal, LLC, November 2, 2001

Quotes
Recent studies show business coaching and executive coaching to be the most effective means for achieving sustainable growth, change and development in the individual, group and organization.
-- HR Monthly

A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you see your strengths and weaknesses and use them to accomplish your goals.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Using [coaching] instead of sending executives and managers to seminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial to ongoing career development, not to mention less expensive...
- PC Week

Coaching takes a holistic view of the individual: work, corporate values, personal needs and career development are made to work in synergy, not against one another.
-British Journal of Administrative Management

Coaching started in the business world to help stressed out executives cope with their professional and personal lives, and it still thrives in the corporate environment. But, increasingly, individuals are turning to coaches for help with every sort of problem.
- Boston Globe

If you want to build your business and at the same time have a rewarding personal life, you call a coach.
- Denver Post

A personal coach can help you by getting you to spell out what it is that you really want and then working with you to make the changes that actually enable you to get there.
-The Vancouver Province