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66 Contexts What type of coaching is needed? Reference to a `coaching implementation' may of course mean different things even within the same organization. A very high level of rigour might be demanded for implementing a programme to groom a cadre of in-house coaches, who might initially be able to support the coaching needs of only a small number of people. In contrast, a programme that aims to train all of an organization's managers and encourage the use of coaching in every staff development meeting may not demand such a high standard of coaching proficiency to be achieved but involve a comprehensive roll-out to a large base of individuals. An initiative to recruit external coaches may similarly involve careful execution, while introducing coaching as a discretionary skill for managers to use at will may be less exacting. As may be seen, we've returned to using a variety of definitions for `coaching', and any number of these may be relevant within a single organization in other words, more than one coaching implementation may be relevant for any company. In turn, the choice of which type of coaching implementation is appropriate determines the criteria in a framework such as the Coaching Focus model that should be satisfied in