ABSTRACT
A great deal of the literature on coaching has focused on the inputs into the coaching process: what the coach does, how the coaching is set up, the initial goals and contract, the coach’s interventions and tools. One of the most thorough meta-analyses of coaching research was carried out by De Meuse et al. Although they found that there had been an enormous upsurge in papers on coaching in scholarly journals, with English finding a 300 percent increase in such papers between 1994–1999 and the period 2000–2004; the number of outcome research studies was very small. One of the most important outputs that needs to be tracked is how the individual learning in coaching impacts on team and organizational learning. Some organizations include a 360- or 720-degree feedback on the individual before and after coaching, which evaluates how the coachee’s stakeholders are experiencing the changes resulting from the coaching.
