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101 Great Coaching Quotes

CoachVille

"Who, exactly, seeks out a coach?…Winners who want even moreout of life."

— Chicago Tribune, 12/17/00

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“Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potenttool for inducing positive personal change, ensuring better-than-average odds of success and making the change stick for the longterm.”

— The Ivy Business Journal, September-October 2000 issue

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“Once reserved for executives and professional athletes, personalcoaches…are going mainstream.”

— Christian Science Monitor, 1/25/99

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“Investment bankers, entrepreneurs, dentists, accountants,secretaries, even homemakers are hiring coaches to help guidethem in everything from changing careers to starting a business tobalancing work and family.”

— Christian Science Monitor, 1/25/99

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“The hottest thing in management is the executivecoach…Coaches are everywhere these days…Corporate coachesare in such demand that they can charge from $600 to $2,000 amonth for three or four 30- to 60-minute phone conversations.”

—Fortune, 5/21/00

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CoachVille

“Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, partprofessional organizer, part friend, part nag — the personal coachseeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.”

— Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, 5/26/98

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“People who want to stand out at work or face a job crisisincreasingly turn to career coaches. There are now an estimated10,000 coaches nationwide, up from 5,300 in 1998.”

— The Wall Street Journal, 6/26/01

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“Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of thestandard leadership development training for elite executives andtalented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, andHewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their bestprospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser tohelp reach their goals.”

— CNN.com, 5/28/01

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“Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Wantto change direction but aren't sure how to do it? Here's how to jumpstart your new life today…Hire a personal coach.”

— Modern Maturity, January-February 2000

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“Increasingly nonprofit executives and managers are findingcoaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in ademanding and complex job.”

— Nonprofit World, 9/1/99

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“How do you define success? That's not a trick question, and thereare no wrong answers. For some, obviously, success meansmoney. Others rate emotional happiness as being more important.Yet others rate popularity above all else. Regardless of how youdefine success, an emerging specialty called 'success coaching'(also known as personal and professional coaching) offers thechance to visualize your highest goals and stay on track to achievethem.”

— Central New York Business Journal, 5/25/98

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“Personal coaches are a hot commodity among executives thesedays. Never mind the mansion, the Mercedes, the membership inthe exclusive country club. In corporate America today, the signthat you have truly arrived — or at least that you are being groomedfor arrival — is an executive coach. Your own personal coach, thatis. Even if the coach's assignment is to render you less obnoxious,his or her presence at your elbow signals that you are regarded bythe company as entirely too valuable to fire or shoot.”

— Training, 3/1/98

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“Almost overnight, it seems, executive coaching has turned into anindustry. And business is booming.”

— Training, 3/1/98

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“For years, business people have used corporate coaches to helptheir companies work more effectively. Now, an increasing numberof individuals are turning to coaches for help in finding balance intheir personal lives.”

— The Spokane Spokesman Review, 12/15/98

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”Coaching started in the business world to help stressed executivescope with their professional and personal lives, and it still thrives inthe corporate environment. But individuals are increasingly turningto coaching for help with all sorts of challenges.”

— Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, 5/26/98

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“'Very Satisfactory' …This was the way clients most frequentlyrated the overall effectiveness of their coaching experience on a 5-point scale, where 4 was very satisfactory. The positive image ofexecutive coaching in business media and the continued growth ofthe practice are supported by client experience.”

— Organizational Dynamics, 1/1/99

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“Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self-worth, focus on your goals — and get there, fast.”

— The London Daily Telegraph, 3/22/99

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“People usually turn to coaches for professional and career growth.They want help in setting goals, solving problems or acquiring newskills. But business coaching often leads to personal insights.Clients are better able to deal with obstacles and change. It's easierto balance work life with their personal life. And in some cases, itgives them the courage to pursue dream.”

— The Arizona Republic, 10/31/98

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“I first heard about personal coaches five years ago — at the sametime personal fitness coaches were beginning to flex their muscles.The two fields are related: coaches in both areas help you achieveyour potential…Personal coaches provide powerful professionalinsights. My personal advice: Get one.”

— Chicago Tribune, 5/17/98

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“Today's managers, professionals, and entrepreneurs are hiringcoaches to help them with time management, a change in career,or balancing their work and personal lives. People are looking tocoaches as sounding boards and motivators who can offer a freshperspective on career and life problems — but without theconflicting agendas of a spouse, family member, or even a mentor.”

— Fortune, 9/28/98

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“The number of executives hiring personal coaches is rocketing asmore and more professionals turn to outside help for advice in howto manage their day, dollars, employees, develop better leadershipskills and maximize effectiveness.”

— London Evening Standard, 6/11/99

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“If you're thinking of overhauling your career to achieve a morefulfilling life, consider joining the estimated 100,000 Americans whoannually enlist the help of some 4,000 personal coaches eachyear.”

— Money, December 1997

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“The benefits we've seen in our experience and in talking withothers who have implemented executive coaching include positivebehavior change and enhanced skills and knowledge.”

— Training & Development, 3/1/99

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“Most leaders like executive coaching because: they receive directone-on-one assistance from someone they respect; they don't haveto leave their offices; it fits their timeframes and schedules; theycan see fast results, if they're dedicated.”

— Training & Development, 3/1/99

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“The ROI with executive coaching is often very high — especially ifyou calculate the value of a high-level executive salary and thereturn-on-improvement in skill level and decision making.”

— Training & Development, 3/1/99

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“The present research demonstrated the dramatic effects of one-on-one executive coaching as a transfer of training tool…There area number of explanations for the dramatic increase in productivityresulting from coaching.”

— Public Personnel Management, 12/22/97

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“How do you provide career development as a just-in-time, bottom-line-driven business activity? For an increasing number oforganizations, the answer seems to be executive coaching. Inrecent years, there has been an explosion in its use.”

— Organizational Dynamics, 1/1/99

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“…a personal coach is better than a best friend.”— Sausalito.net, August 2000

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“Inside every successful business person is an even moreambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help.”

— “Someone To Watch Over You,”Australian Financial Review, 10/9/00

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“Coaching can be an effective means of improving business resultswhile also contributing to executive development. Good coachingaffords 'protean learning' for executives, resulting in greater selfknowledge, new perspectives, improved performance and greateradaptability.”

— Organizational Dynamics, 1/1/99

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“Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlikepsychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrateson where you are today and how you can reach your goals.”

— Time, 10/16/00

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“What exactly is a coach? Part personal consultant, part soundingboard, part manager. Yes, manager. Remember him? That personwhose job used to be to advise, motivate, and train — but whosenose is now mostly stuck in e-mail? For a surprising number ofpeople, it is now the coach — not the boss — who pushes them tohire, to fire, to fine-tune a sales pitch, to stretch.”

— Fortune, 5/21/00

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“Coaches work with clients in all areas including business, career,finances, health and relationships.”

— Sausalito.net, August 2000

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“As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action,make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths.”

— Sausalito.net, August 2000

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“Coaching is not about the past or figuring out why and how life got socomplicated or overwhelming. It is about moving forward on the thingsthat matter most to you, dissolving barriers and blocks to your ownsuccess, and designing a life that you love.”

— Sausalito.net, August 2000

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“The coaching relationship also has a unique structure. After aninitial assessment of the client's situation, the coach and client setspecific goals for the client. In each subsequent meeting with theclient, the coach determines what goals have been met and whyother goals were not. Different set of goals is agreed upon for thefollowing meeting. The coach prods the client to keep to the actionplan.”

— The Business Journal, April 1999

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“Today's managers, professionals and entrepreneurs are hiringcoaches to help them with time management, a change in career orbalancing their work and personal lives.”

— Fortune, 9/28/98

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“Part consultant, part motivational speaker, part therapist, and partrent-a-friend, coaches work with managers, entrepreneurs, and justplain folks, helping them define and achieve their goals — career,personal, or most often, both.”

— Kendall Hamilton, Newsweek, 2/5/96

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“…the quickly growing wave of coaching relationships that arehelping small-business owners improve their business skills,recalibrate their approaches to management, and, often, totallyreboot and rebalance themselves as leaders on the job and in thehome and community.”

— Dale D. Bliss, Nation’s Business, December 1998

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“Coaches can help entrepreneurs get their personal lives in order,which can go a long way toward solving what may have looked likepurely business problems.”

— Dale D. Bliss, Nation’s Business, December 1998

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“A major benefit of coaching is having someone who helps you seeyour strengths and weaknesses and use them to accomplish yourgoals.”

— Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune, 5/26/98

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“Using [coaching] instead of sending executives and managers toseminars two or three times a year can be more beneficial toongoing career development, not to mention less expensive…”

— “Coaches Pump Your Career into Shape,”PC Week, 12/20-27/99

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“If you want to build your business and at the same time have arewarding personal life, you call a coach.”

— Robert Schwab, “Businesses Hire Coaches to Build WinningTeams,” Denver Post, 10/18/98

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“Coaching started in the business world to help stressed outexecutives cope with their professional and personal lives, and itstill thrives in the corporate environment. But, increasingly,individuals are turning to coaches for help with every sort ofproblem.”

— Diane White, Boston Globe, 2/23/98

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“Coaching is the latest and most pervasive evolution in the self-improvement industry.”

— Career Confidential

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“In the next few years, coaching will become the norm in thebusiness world.”

— Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 6/28/98

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“[Your coach] will guide you to a fuller life or a slimmer figure.Whatever you want. Your weakness is his challenge.”

— Craig Wilson, USA Today, 6/3/96

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“Want to get even further ahead?…What you need is a coach, yourown personal motivator. They're not just for top-ranked tennisplayers anymore.

—Lydia Martin, Miami Herald, 3/6/96

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“At a time when companies are downsizing and out placing…at atime when boomers are facing 50, coaches are easing traumatictransitions.”

— “Career Coaches Offer Help in the Game of Life,”Long Beach Press-Telegram, 7/9/96

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“The benefits of coaching appear to win over even the most cynicalclients within just a few weeks.”

— Shari Caudron, “Hire A Coach?” Industry Week, 10/21/96

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“A coach maybe the guardian angel you need to rev up yourcareer”

— Money, 7/12/97

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“[other companies] offer coaching as a prerequisite to provenmanagers, in the understanding that everyone can benefit from adetached observer.”

— Trip Gabriel, “Earning It: Personal Trainers to Buff the Boss’sPeople Skills,” New York Times, 4/28/96

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“The goal of coaching is the goal of good management — to makethe most of an organization's valuable resources.”

— J. Waldroop & T. Butler, “The Executive as Coach,”Harvard Business Review, November-December 1996

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“Executive coaches are not for the meek. They're for people whovalue unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing incommon, it's that they’re ruthlessly results-oriented.”

— Claire Tristan, Fast Company, October 1996

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“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, career coaches findthemselves busier than ever.”

—Kris Maher, “Attacks Change Dynamics for Many CareerCoaches, ” The Wall Street Journal Online, 11/2/01

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“Bryant McAfee, 35, is convinced that his coach helped him toachieve a vice president position within eight months in the pay TVchannel PlayboyTV. His coach supported him to better focus on theessentials in his job, says McAfee.”— Wirtschaftswoche (weekly German business publication), 7/3/97

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“During her 23 years at the advertising agency Campbell MithunEsty, where Beth Miller is a senior vice president, she has usedmentors to help her navigate an industry still run by men. She alsohas hired a personal coach to help her set and achieve goals.Coaches and mentors have played complementary but distinctroles in Miller's life. As coaching becomes more trendy amongharried professionals, however, she's concerned the terms arebeing confused. ‘I think of a coach like a personal trainer whopushes me to lift more weights,’ Miller says. ‘A mentor is a moreexperienced running partner.’

—St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press, 4/11/99

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“Jim Parkhurst, senior engineer at MCI WorldCom, in Fremont, Calif., so valueshis coaching that he's willing to pay for it out of his own pocket. ‘ It’s like going tothe gym with a personal trainer. It's a much more focused event, as opposed togoing to the gym alone or just having a mentor to casually talk about things,’explains Parkhurst, who works with Ferro Nyalka. ‘Here, it's my agenda, not thecoach'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 asan ability to see clearly what needs to be done to better position myself.’”

“Clients also say that coaches give them a fresh perspective. ‘ A lot of timesyou're fighting fires and don't see an easier way to solve the problem,’ Parkhurstsays. The objective, distanced view of a coach can also lead to new ways oflooking at issues because the coach's ideas aren't limited by politics or a positionwithin the company.”

— Infoworld, 5/24/99

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“’Even modest improvements can justify hiring a coach,’ saysJerome Abarbanel, Vice President of Executive Resources forCitibank: ‘An investment of $30,000 or so in an executive who hasresponsibility for tens of millions of dollars is a rounding error.Coaching is a success if one subordinate who was too intimidatedto speak before comes up with a good idea.’

— Fortune, 12/27/93

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“The things I've gained are worth much more [than the $260monthly fee], says Dominick Bencivenga from Huntington Station,manager of Citibank’s Commack branch, and a client of NancyPowers, a coach from Bayville. LILCO and phone bills areexpenses. This is an investment. I'm designing my life. Coachinghas given me an energy to put more of the things I want in my life,he says. I can now focus my downtime, which used to be wastedtime.”

— Patricia Kitchen, The Long Island Newspaper, 3/17/96

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“Beaverton's Northwest Micro Inc., which made Inc. Magazine's 1992 list of fastest-growing businesses in the nation, hired Dawn AnJolais of Portland six months ago tohelp the sales team meet the expectations of Mary Hanigan, the manager.”

“I thought she would work with the sales staff and make them wonderful, Haniganrecalled. The first thing I learned was, ‘oops, we have to go back and work on theleader.’”

“AnJolais spent four months helping Hanigan manage her anger and improve hermotivational skills. Then she worked with the sales force helping them on such thingsas time management and goal setting.”

“’I coach people who want a better way than they've been doing it,’ AnJolais said. ‘I'm trained to point attention to where it needs to be so you can direct the effort.”

“’I could have used my training budget to send my sales people to seminars,’Hanigan said. ‘ But I thought this would give us the ability to break out of old habits.’”

“‘After six months of coaching, I'm not unhappy with the investment.’”

— Roger Crockett, The Oregonian, 5/19/96

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“After all, don't we all benefit from encouragement, objectivity andstructure in our lives?”

— Sausalito.net, August 2000

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“Even if executive coaching costs $50K (which it doesn't), it's barelya rounding error to invest in the coaching of a key player who hasresponsibility for millions of dollars and for key human resources.Coaching is a success if one direct report, who used to beintimidated to speak up, comes up with an innovative idea.”

— CEO, Fortune 100 Company

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“I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles gotinto that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention todeveloping their leaders.”

— Wayne Calloway, Chairman, Pepsico Inc.

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“When you understand the definition of coaching, it seems thateveryone should have one!”

— Sausalito.net, August 2000

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“Metropolitan Life Financial Services offered an intensive coachingprogram to part of its retail sales force. They found that productivityamong those salespeople coached increased by an average of 35%,while 50% identified new markets to develop. Perhaps most important,Metropolitan has retained all of the salespeople who had the coaching—abig deal, since industry statistics show that each representative wholeaves a company with three years' experience cost $140,000 to replace.In all, the coaching program which cost about $620,000, delivered $3.2million in measurable gains: A 5.16 ROI.”

—"Executive Coaching: An Investment in Creating Masterful Leadership,”The Rowell Consulting Group, www.enhanceleaders.com

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“Ask Jeff Immelt (the new CEO of General Electric) about coachingto and you will probably get a resounding thumbs up for theconcept. After all, in Jack Welch, it's not every day you are giventhe opportunity be coached by one the most famous and successfulbusiness figures of your generation!”

— “Perspectives on Coaching,” Journal of ManagementDevelopment, Volume 20, #5, 2001

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“Coaching usually refers to a relationship between an individual anda trained professional who work on a set of pre-defined objectiveswith the aim of achieving particular goals or targets. Coachingprotagonists believe that as a result of this relationship, greaterresults can be achieved and an individual can go on to do thingsthat would otherwise have been impossible.”

— “Perspectives on Coaching,” Journal of ManagementDevelopment, Volume 20, #5, 2001

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“I see coaching as a gift and a positive and energizing experience whichabove all enables an executive to shake off what may in fact be deeplyheld automatic beliefs and behaviors that are inhibiting performance andcareer development. I spent twenty-six years at my previous employerand my confidence increased so substantially as a result of coaching thatI declared an ambitious commitment to the directors to win additionalbusiness. I estimate that I was able to add more than £15 million of extravalue through interventions I initiated directly linked to what I had learnt incoaching.”

— Head of Organizational Development at a large bank, ”Perspectives onCoaching,” Journal of Management Development, Volume 20, #5, 2001

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“…[A coach is] part advisor, part sounding board, part cheerleader,part manager and part strategist.”

— The Business Journal, 4/10/00

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“Coaches are everywhere these days. Companies hire them toshore up executives or, in some cases, to ship them out. Divisionheads hire them as change agents. Workers at all levels of thecorporate ladder, fed up with a lack of advice from inside thecompany, are taking matters into their own hands and enlistingcoaches for guidance on how to improve their performance, boosttheir profits, and make better decisions about everything frompersonnel to strategy.”

— Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?”Fortune, 2/21/00

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“The leaders of organizations such as Alcoa, American Red Cross,AT&T, Ford, Northwestern Mutual Life, 3M, UPS, AmericanStandard, the federal governments of the United States andCanada are convinced that coaching works to develop people andincrease productivity. “

— C2M: Consulting to Management, September 2001

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“Motorola say they expect to spend in the low millions this year onexecutive coaching for their best middle managers.“

— C2M: Consulting to Management, September 2001

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“Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate, has thirty coachesworking in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa with 250 topmanagers.“

— C2M - Consulting to Management, September 2001

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“What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we movefrom 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180…as we go from drivingstraight down the road to making right turns and left turns toabandoning cars and getting on motorcycles…the whole gamechanges, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how notfall off.”

— John Kotter, Professor of Leadership,Harvard Business School

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“Across corporate America, coaching sessions at many companieshave become as routine for executives as budget forecasts andquota meetings.”

— Gary Stern, “A Coached CEO Can Be that Winning Edge,”Investor's Business Daily, 2/28/00

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“Justin Yaros, CIO at Los Angeles-based 20th Century Fox, tookthis advice a step further: He hired an executive coach when hefirst became CIO. He says the coach gave him useful advice onhow to handle the job of CIO and how to develop a leadershipagenda. He found it so helpful that he hired her to coach some ofhis direct reports as part of an overall leadership developmentprogram.”

— CIO Magazine, 12/15/99-1/1/00

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“The demand for Executive Coaches has skyrocketed over the past5 years…today's executive coach (EC) is intended to help leadersand potential leaders across the rocky, wild, and challenging roadof organizational growth in today's dynamic and unstable workenvironment...”

— The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology,American Psychological Association

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“We've done lots of research over the past three years, and we'vefound that leaders who have the best coaching skills have betterbusiness results.”

— Tanya Clemens, V.P. of Global Executive & OrganizationalDevelopment at IBM, Time, 9/25/00

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“Coaching is the only cost-effective way to reinforce new behaviorsand skills until a learner is through the dangerous results dip. Oncethrough the dip, when the new skills bring results, they will becomeself-reinforcing.”

— Training and Development Journal

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“Corporations believe that coaching helps keep employees and thatthe dollar investment in it is far less than the cost of replacing anemployee.”

— David A. Thomas, Fitzhugh Professor of BusinessAdministration, Harvard Business School, Time, 9/25/00

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“Bob Wright, an executive coach, says his clients are needing himeven more during the downturn, tough times are a great opportunityfor those businesses who can make the hard, right decisions duringdifficult transition and adjustment periods and that's what coachingis all about, learning how to change and grow.”

— Management Today

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“If ever stressed-out corporate America could use a little couch-time, it’s now. Trust in big companies is at an all-time low. Baby-boomers have been burned; Gen Xers aren't expecting thecorporation to take care of them. Under the circumstances,employees are much likelier to go outside and get independentadvice to help them be better managers”

— Karen Cates, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior,Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management

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“Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies useexecutive coaches”

— Recent survey by The Hay Group,an International Human Resources consultancy

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“I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching processto draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within anindividual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problempreviously thought unsolvable,”

— John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.

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“Asked for a conservative estimate of the monetary payoff from thecoaching they got, these managers described an average return ofmore than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had costtheir companies.”

— “Executive Coaching — With Returns a CFO Could Love,”Fortune, 2/19/01

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“Coaching is the number two growth industry right behind IT(Information Technology) jobs, and it's the number one home-based profession.”

— Start-Ups Magazine

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“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach theirmaximum capabilities”

— Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot

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“Tiger Woods has one. Pete Sampras has one. So why not smallbusiness owners?”

— Charles Boisseau, “Put Me In, Coach,”localbusiness.com, 9/18/00

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“Coaching — which can help managers talk with subordinatesabout their developmental needs — absolutely affects therelationship positively"

— Francine Russo, “Play of the Day,” Time, 9/25/00

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“Leaders view themselves more as a coach than the person incharge"

—Frank Blount, former CEO of Telstra

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“When W.L. (Trey) Crowdus, then a 41-year-old strategic marketingconsultant in Austin, Tex., sought a CEO post three years ago, hehad help from an executive coach…Within three months, Crowduswas hired as CEO of Ambiatech, an Austin environmentalcompany…In the interview game, coaches can take your play to anew level.”

— BusinessWeek Investor, 10/22/01

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“Most executives seek out a coach when they know they need tomake improvements, but they don’t know how to do it. It’s likebaseball, if we were swinging the bat perfectly we wouldn’t havecoaches.”

— Barbara Brannen, former Vice President of Human Resourcesfor Qwest Communications

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“Coaches aren't just for sports: They goad you, guide you on theroad to success”

— Cynthia Flash, Seattle Times, 6/18/01

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“Coaches provide inspiration, and consultants provide information”— Jeremy Robinson, President of Robinson Capital

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“In the past, executive coaching was viewed as a perk; nowcompanies realize it can help their bottom line”

— Steven Hilferty, CEO of Silicon Valley Coaching

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“You've really got to have someone from the outside who says, `Allright John, what are we out to achieve? Why are these good goals?Why is this a good strategy?' he said. And then hold youaccountable.”

— Tapei Times Online, 6/28/01

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“Coaching simply speeds up a process of change that would mostlikely occur anyway if an individual had enough time. Without acoaching 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, September-October 2000

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“The hottest thing in management is the executive coach — partboss, part consultant, part therapist.”

— Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?”Fortune, 2/21/00

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“Ernst partner Barry Mabry has found a coach to be a valuable sounding board intoday's crazy business climate. He'd received a notice last year telling him thatcoaching would be available to Ernst & Young partners. He made a call and soonfound himself on the phone with 'a strange woman.' (It was Cynder Niemela.) 'I was inNew Orleans; she was in San Francisco. She didn’t know much about my area ofwork,' he recalls. But within 20 minutes, he decided she could be both trusted andhelpful.

Ever since, he has had routine telephone conversations with her in which he hasdiscussed matters ranging from the mundane (how to improve communications withsubordinates) to the cosmic (what do you want to get out of life?). 'Why do I need acoach?' he muses. 'I've wrestled with this.’ He’s a corporate finance partner in NewOrleans. He has been with Ernst 27 years. He's successful; he's happy. His recentperformance review was quite flattering. 'Perhaps it's for the same reason that TigerWoods needs a coach or Pete Sampras needs a coach,' says Mabry. 'Tiger Woodswould say, 'I know how to play golf.' But his coach is probably the most importantperson in his life.'“

— Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?” Fortune, 2/21/00

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“Several years ago Bradford was another middle-management burnoutcandidate: on the job early each morning, on the phone each night until ten,giving far too little time to her family. She was facing a stressful mid-career movefrom Washington, D.C., back to Maine and a big transition to a new job at MetLife. But a boss let her in on his little secret: He had a personal coach. She mightwant to get one too. A friend of hers, who also had a coach, made the referral,and Bradford began having weekly phone conversations with Talane Miedaner,an executive coach in New York City who has worked with people at BearStearns, Citicorp, Motorola, Salomon Smith Barney, and Sears.Miedaner pushed Bradford to reexamine her goals and values. She helped her toreclaim control of her time. Often, she helped her with the nitty-gritty of her job.As is so common with salespeople, Bradford had a habit of overpromising.Miedaner coached her to under promise and over deliver--much moreimpressive. Miedaner helped Bradford plot strategies for opening doors withprospective clients, and rehearsed with her when Bradford interviewed forpromotion. Bradford began to believe that if something felt impossible oroutrageous, it was exactly the right thing to do. (continued on next page)

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Bradford says her year of coaching 'was like a grenade in my life that’s still goingoff.' It taught her, she says, that 'people have to take more responsibility for theirown growth and development. They can't depend on human resources. Coachescan help people come to grips with huge changes in the way we do work, ingetting through big transitions.”

— Betsy Morris, “So You’re a Player. Do You Need a Coach?” Fortune, 2/21/00