ABSTRACT
By the 1990s, more students and writers were turning their research interests to coaching. By now, the emphasis was on coaching as a management skill with a case study led methodology. In coaching literature, authors such as Hughes and de Haan suggest that the coaching approach has its origins in Ancient Greece, with links to Socratic dialogue with its four main components – the concrete, full understanding between participants, adherence to a subsidiary question until it is answered, and striving for consensus. Throughout time the elders in any community have sought to share their experience, skills and knowledge with those with less experience. They have to all intents and purposes ‘coached’ them. One of the key theories Gallwey looked to was Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, developed in 1943. He believed that there is a clear hierarchy of human needs.
