Definitions of Business (Corporate, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Transformation) Coaching

Wikipedia...
    Professional Business Coaches are too often called in when a business is perceived to be performing badly when many healthier businesses recognize the benefits of
    business coaching even when the organization is successful. Business coaches often specialize in different practice areas such as executive coaching, corporate coaching
    and leadership coaching.

WABC...
    Business coaching is the process of engaging in meaningful communication with individuals in businesses, organizations, institutions or governments, with the goal of
    promoting success at all levels of the organization by affecting the actions of those individuals. Business coaching enables the client to understand and enhance his or her
    role in achieving business success. The business coach helps the client discover how personal characteristics, including a sense of self and personal perspectives, affect
    personal and business processes and the ability to reach objectives within a business context. With this method, successful coaching helps the client learn how to change
    or accommodate personal characteristics and how to create personal and business processes that achieve objectives. Business coaching establishes an atmosphere of
    trust, respect, safety, challenge and accountability to motivate both the coach and the client. In turn, this requires that the business coach conduct an ethical and
    competent practice, based on appropriate professional experience and business knowledge and an understanding of individual and organizational change. Note: The above
    definition includes a range of practice (e.g., team and individual coaching) within business coaching. But throughout, there is a clear focus on achieving business
    objectives. It is this focus that distinguishes business coaching from other types of coaching. Business coaching addresses the client’s development for the purpose of
    achieving business outcomes rather than achieving personal or career goals

Marshall Goldsmith in 5 Annoying Habits of Entrepreneurs ...
    1. WINNING TOO MUCH The need to be right in all situations.
    2. ADDING TOO MUCH VALUE The overwhelming desire to add our two cents.
    3. STARTING WITH 'NO,' 'BUT,' OR 'HOWEVER' These negative qualifiers say, "I'm right, you're wrong."
    4. PLAYING FAVORITES Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.
    5. GOAL OBSESSION Getting so devoted to a specific goal that we achieve it at the expense of a larger mission.

Wikipedia...
    “Executive Coaching is a facilitative one-to-one, mutually designed relationship between a professional coach and a key contributor who has a powerful position in the
    organization…The coaching is contracted for the benefit of a client who is accountable for highly complex decisions with wide scope of impact on the organization and
    industry as a whole. The focus of the coaching is usually focused on organizational performance or development, but it may also serve a personal component as well.”

The ICF Definition of Coaching
    Professional Coaching is an ongoing professional relationship that helps people produce extraordinary results in their lives, careers, businesses or organizations. Through
    the process of coaching, clients deepen their learning, improve their performance, and enhance their quality of life. In each meeting, the client chooses the focus of
    conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions. This interaction creates clarity and moves the client into action. Coaching accelerates
    the client's progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. Coaching concentrates on where clients are now and what they are willing to do to get where
    they want to be in the future. ICF member coaches and ICF credentialed coaches recognize that results are a matter of the client's intentions, choices and actions,
    supported by the coach's efforts and application of the coaching process
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                                                                                       Definitions of Behavioral (Conflict / Stress / Emotional) Coaching

    Wikipedia Conflict coaching...
    Conflict coaching may be used in an organizational context, for  relationship matters and is one of many conflict management tools for helping people improve their
    conflict management skills and abilities. Like many other techniques of this nature, it is premised on the view that conflict provides an opportunity to improve
    relationships, to create mutually satisfactory solutions and attain other positive outcomes when differences arise between and among people.

Behavioral Coaching Institute...
    ... involves changing the very way they think, increasing their ability to deal better with ambiguity and be more creative and reflective. It effects change in what the
    leader knows and enhances their ability to step back and reflect on assumptions previously taken for granted. These may be about culture, values, the self, organizational
    objectives and vision.  
    Some documented benefits of leadership coaching include: enhanced ability to develop and foster trust; increased accountability within the organization; developing and
    maintaining more satisfactory relationships with the Board, shareholders and employees; enhanced credibility and influence as an ambassador; increased ability to align
    others to the company’s vision and mission; successful change management projects; enhanced managerial competencies; a growth in self-responsibility in self and
    others; developing a culture that truly values learning and development. The behavioral coaching model emphasizes the following aspects of behavior and learning:
    -Much of our human behavior is learned.
    -All behaviors result in positive or negative consequences for the individual and those around him or her
    -Individuals are systems within systems, and each individual affects and is affected by these systems and the constant changes they are undergoing
    -Defining individuals' current status and developmental progress in terms of their behavior, rather than personality traits or personality styles
    -Specifying the target behavior impacting on say; a professional skill, position task etc
    -Measuring the target behavior
    -Exploring and changing core values, motivation, beliefs and emotions -which can result in significant behavioral change
    -Assessing covert behaviors (e.g., limiting beliefs, anxiety) in relation to overt actions (e.g., speaking at a meeting)
    -Accessing and assessing emotional events
    -Assessing environmental events and the interactions between behavior and environment
    -Employing validated behavioral techniques
    -Providing statistical proof of beneficial change/learning acquisition and ROI
    -Employing sufficient follow-through monitoring and coachee self-coaching strategies
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    Definitions of Career (HiPot / Personal / Professional) Coaching

    Shea...
    Transition coaching focuses on the process that people go through as they undergo their own life-shifts. It seeks to provide them with support, sharing, a sounding board,
    encouragement, questioning, goal-development, diverse planning and the like. It is a Transitional Coach's job to help people get what they want in life in by breaking down
    the barriers that people impose on themselves.

    Wikipedia...
    Career coaching focuses on work and career or issues around careers. It is similar in nature to career counseling and traditional counseling. Career coaching is not to be
    confused with life coaching, which concentrates on personal development (see 'personal coaching' and 'life coaching', above). Another common term for Career Coach is
    'Career Guide', although career guides typically use techniques drawn not only from coaching, but also mentoring, advising and consulting. For instance, skills coaching
    and holistic counseling are increasingly of equal importance to careers guidance in the UK

Wendy S. Enelow...
    You may ask yourself, "What exactly is a Career Coach? What do they do? What do they cost? Can they be of value to me in my job search? Do I need one?" Let's explore
    that concept. A Career Coach should be thought of as your job search partner. He/she is there to (1) help you explore and better define your professional competencies,
    (2) address personal issues impacting your career, (3) clearly identify your career objectives, (4) discuss and resolve obstacles to employment and career success, (5)
    guide you in developing both short-term and long-range career strategies, (6) assist you in developing, executing and managing a successful job search campaign, and (7)
    prepare you to competitively interview, negotiate compensation and evaluate offers. In addition, many coaches offer services beyond the immediate job search and are
    available to support you throughout your career with ongoing guidance and support for long-term career planning, management and advancement.

    Audra Bianca, eHow  
    According to the Professional Association of Resume Writers and Career Coaches, career coaching helps people find jobs, advance in their present jobs, find a career
    after college graduation, transition to a new field or start a business.

    de nes group coaching as: a acilitated group process that is led by a proessional coach and ormed with the intention o maximizing the combined energy, ex-
    perience, and wisdom o individuals who chose to join in order to achieve organizational objectives and/or individual goals

Jennier Britton, MES, CP, CPCC, Potentials Realize
    Group coaching—a small-group process throughout which there is the application o coaching principles or the purposes o personal or proessional development, the
    achievement o goals, or greater sel-awareness, along thematic or non-thematic lines. —

    By definition, group coaching is the application of coaching principles to a small group for the purposes of personal and/or professional development, the achievement of
    goals, deepening self-awareness, new learning and peer support.

Relisience Inc's Definition of Team Coaching
    Team coaching is provided to intact groups for the purpose of developing the ability of the team to work together to achieve results. It can be defined as direct interaction
    with a team intended to help members make full, coordinated use of collective resources in building relationships, communicating and accomplishing the work

CPPhillips...
    “An individual and team development process that uses an integrated combination of interventions to improve collaborative leadership skills and team performance.”

Word-IQ...
    Team coaching...Like individual coaching, team coaching focuses on improving performance. In the case of a team, the coach observes the team's current functioning,
    assesses the team's strengths and weaknesses, and develops a plan for addressing any needed changes
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