Resource Focus: Sherpa Coaching

Sherpa Coaching offers several outstanding free reports of interest to coaches and people who hire coaches. Sherpa Coaching should go on your short list of coaching resource providers.

The first report is a list of the most prominent executive and life coaching schools organized as an interactive Adobe Acrobat file:

http://www.sherpacoaching.com/pdf files/2010CoachingSchools.pdf

You are led step by step through a series of questions: whether you are interesting in executive or life coaching; whether you are interested in a university based program; whether you want to work with a published instructor; and whether you want live classroom training or distance learning. On the basis of answers to these questions, you are presented with a screen of names you can click on that will take you to the coaching schools website. This is a very useful report.

Sherpa Coaching also publishes an annual report on executive coaching. The Sherpa Executive Coaching Survey, now in its sixth consecutive year and co-sponsored by education departments at the University of Georgia, Texas Christian University and Miami University, offers valuable insights into leadership development.

This report can be downloaded here:

http://www.sherpacoaching.com/pdf files/SherpaExecutiveCoachingSurvey2011.pdf

This is a 30 page report that includes some of the following sections:

What is Executive Coaching?
The Value of Coaching
What Makes a Good Executive Coach?
Coach Training and Certification
Sources of Training for Coaches
Accreditation for Training
Assessments in Coaching
Cutting Through the Confusion

A few of the interesting conclusions that the analysts of the report came to include:

"After a pullback in recent years, organizations are again offering coaching to all levels of management, instead of restricting services to include only top line executives."

"A vast majority of business professionals see the value of coaching as very high. The credibility of coaching increases every year."

"In-person delivery of coaching is on the rise."

- Sherpa Executive Coaching Survey 2011

This is a valuable report that coaches and people who hire coaches will want to have.