What is Coaching

History of Coaching

Coaching has been considered an aspect of business management since it was first introduced in literature as a management skill in the 1950s. However, it wasn’t until the 1980s that it began to receive much attention as an outgrowth of business leadership programs. With that, the new and powerful discipline of executive coaching took hold.

Life coaching also had its genesis in the mid-1980s, and various coaching schools and programs began to spring up worldwide around this budding profession. At the same time the International Coach Federation was established, serving as the professional association of personal and business coaches that “seeks to preserve the integrity of coaching around the globe”. (See www.internationalcoachfederation.org). It is now the largest professional association coaching association, with more than 6,000 members and 145 chapters in 30 countries.