By Ros Soulsby Coaches need to be more systemically minded, more challenging and more evidence-focused. In her opening address at the conference, Caroline Sandler, head of Sandler Consulting Executive Coaching Practice, underlined the importance of accountability – both for the individual being coached and the organisation commissioning coaching. She said that in spite of the economic climate, coaching programmes and practices were very much alive in business. However, clients were becoming more discerning and demanding of intervention results. Sandler found this raised three key points:...