Businesses find it hard to identify fit-for-purpose coaches

Senior talent professionals find identifying external executive coaches with the right mix of skills and experience a frustrating experience. This was one of the key findings of a study by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) UK and the Institute of Business Consulting (IBC). Coaches need to explain and distinguish themselves with greater precision and subtlety and buyers need to show greater finesse in drawing up person specifications for coaches and in their approach to coach selection and recruitment, says the report, External executive coaching: a joint study of sponsors´...

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