About Coaching

Business coaching is the practice of providing positive support and positive feedback while offering occasional advice to an individual or group in order to help them recognize ways in which they can improve the effectiveness of their business. Coaching is an excellent way to attain a certain work behavior that will improve leadership, employee accountability, teamwork, sales, communication, goal setting, strategic planning and more. It can be provided in a number of ways, including one-on-one, group coaching sessions and large scale [seminars]. Many corporations are instilling the practice of 360 degree coaching, which permits employees to utilize their own life or professional experiences in a positive way to create team participation attitudes even with superiors. Professional Business Coaches are often called in when a business is perceived to be performing badly, however many businesses recognize the benefits of business coaching even when the organization is successful.

Business coaches often specialize in different practice areas such as executive coaching, corporate coaching and leadership coaching.
Business coaches often help businesses grow by creating and following a structured, strategic plan to achieve agreed upon goals. Multiple organizations train professionals to offer business coaching to business owners who may not be able to afford large coaching firm prices.

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关于教练式管理

前全球第一CEO－－杰克•韦尔奇先生（Jack Welch）如是说：“我只想地做一名企业教练。”“我想提醒你们我观念中的领导艺术是什么，它只跟人有关。没有最好的运动员你就不会有最好的球队，企业队伍也是如此――最好的领导人实际上是教练！”

“一个经理人要有一颗更开放的心，过去人们总是认为经理人理当比属下知道的多一些，这种老观念已经不合时宜了。未来的领导者是提出问题、加以讨论、然后解决它们。他们依赖的是互信而非控制，因此管理人要做的是真诚坦率的沟通，领导人要成为部属的教练而非牵绊者。”

即使是像乔丹、泰格•伍滋这样世界顶尖的运动员，也需要教练来协助他们成就事业与人生的辉煌！但我敢保证乔丹的教练――魔术师杰克逊投篮运球的水平绝对不会比乔丹高，他做了技术之外更重要的事情！人生旅途上，其实也是一场一场的竞赛，如果能象运动员一样，也有一位教练陪伴着我们，教练不一定懂得我们的专业知识，只是我知道他能让我们摘取更多的人生金牌！

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