David Megginson, emeritus professor of HRD at the Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit, Sheffield Hallam University, puts forward some provocative propositions about coaching practice in organisations Proposition 1. Coaching works because it honours the coachee’s agenda Nancy Kline (1999) offers a radical perspective on the coach’s role to facilitate the thinking of the client. This can lead to a style of managing that goes beyond the formal coaching relationship into all transactions between bosses and their staff and indeed into relationships with suppliers and customers,...