In a business coaching situation, a businessperson and a coach form an interactive partnership to achieve professional and/or personal goals and objectives within the business's or organization's goals and objectives.
If you hire a business coach, you will typically engage in a continuous progression of conversations, observations and practice with your coach. The coach will help you clarify personal values, set goals and develop and follow through with strategic action plans. You and your coach share accountability in coaching.
Business coaching is an umbrella term to include all types of business and organizationally related coaching. Business coaching includes internal and external coaches who work as business coaches, corporate coaches, executive coaches, leadership coaches, organizational development coaches and many other types of coaches.
Business coaching emerged in the 1980s as part of the leadership development programs that became popular then. Just about anyone in business can benefit from using a business coach.
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By Margaret Evans
