Making Coaching Work: Creating a Coaching Culture [Paperback]

"'An essential role for HR practitioners in creating effective conditions for coaching is to ensure that the culture and climate within the organisation is supportive of learning and development. In the survey, 80 per cent of respondents agreed that 'coaching will only work well in a culture that supports learning and development.' CIPD Training and Development Survey 2004"

Coaching can work brilliantly. It can help you improve your employee retention levels, succession planning, and organisational creativity. In a supportive culture, managers, coaches and coachees all trust each other and work together.

Sadly, even the best-managed coaching programme, with the best coaches, will fail in the real world where the coaching takes place doesn't match the fine words from HR.

Spending money on coaching without first ensuring that the groundwork has been done is a fast track to failure. Make sure your training and development budget delivers what you need by first creating a culture that supports coaching.

David Clutterbuck
David Clutterbuck is one of Europe''''s most prolific and well-known
management writers and thinkers. He has written more than 40 books
including Managing Work-Life Balance, Learning Alliances. Everyone Needs a
Mentor is now the classic book on the subject and he is recognised as the
UK''''''''s leading expert on mentoring and co-founder of the European
Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is Visiting Professor at
Sheffield-Hallam University.

David Megginson
David Megginson is Professor of HRD at Sheffield Hallam University and a
co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is on both
the Membership and Education Committees of the CIPD and the CPD Working
Group and has written a number of books with the CIPD.