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The AMA and The Sherpa Organizations have continued with their annual surveys attempting to answer the following questions. You may find the indicators quite interesting:

• About half of today's companies use coaching. Who's doing it, and why?
• Is coaching really associated with higher performance?
• What's better: internal or external coaching?
• What's the best way to match coach and client?
• Return on investment (ROI) for Coaching - can it be calculated?
• Training programs for coaches: what's the best approach?
• Why doesn't peer coaching work?

This year the Sherpa Organization has released the first survey for 2009 which encompasses nearly 1500 respondents from all major regions of the globe. The link to the results is:

http://www.sherpacoaching.com/executive-coaching-survey.html

This survey is in depth answering many of the questions both clients and coaches have about the practice. In addition to addressing the questions above, the Survey breaks down responses on a a geographic basis and goes into significantly greater detail who is being coached, does it make a difference, is it a credible exercise that brings meaningful returns to the sponsoring company.

Additionally, the American Management Association is preparing their survey on executive coaching which should soon be in publication. Also, I have learned that Harvard Business Review is conducting their own survey (of approximately 120-140 respondents) with the results due sometime during the first quarter of 2009. As these become available, I will either provide links and/or summaries of key data so comparisons with the Sherpa survey can be drawn.

In brief, my fiduciary responsibility to you, my client or prospective client is to be smart about why you need executive coaching, the benefits you should expect and some idea on how to measure those benefits. This website will continue to be updated as information becomes available.