Maintain Confidentiality in Executive Coaching While Ensuring Return-on-Investment

According to a recent Harvard Business Review article, annual spending on executive coaching among U.S. organizations has exceeded $1 billion annually. Yet at the same time, specific information about coaching's effectiveness is scarce and unreliable. It has yet to be demonstrated conclusively what qualifies an executive coach or what makes one approach to executive coaching better than another. Frequently, organizations fail to establish contracts or methods to define expected results from coaching engagements.