How did business coaching get started?
We believe there are three broad categories of coaching in the marketplace today: sports, personal and business. Business coaching is used as an umbrella term to include all types of business and organizationally related coaching. Thus, business coaching includes both internal and external coaches who work as business coaches, corporate coaches, executive coaches, leadership coaches, organizational development coaches and many other types of coaches. The first research papers on business coaching can be traced to improvement in performance of sells teams in the 1930s. Business coaching is a hybrid profession informed by related disciplines including coaching, psychology, organizational development, management science and consulting, human resource management, ethics, applied theology, adult learning and training and development. Thus, business coaching, like other emerging professions (e.g. project management) and other established professions (e.g., architecture) is essentially a hybr
