Coaching remains high on businesses' lists of development priorities for 2010, according to research from the Henley Business School.  

By Carla Dobson, Institute of Learning and Development 

The school's latest Corporate Learning Priorities survey highlighted that coaching was in 61% of respondents' top five priorities. 

  

However, just nine per cent made it their first or second priority, suggesting that many firms are uncertain how to go about creating a coaching culture. 
  

Dr Patricia Bossons, Director of Coaching Services at Henley Business School, said that coaching has never been more important than it is now as it helps maintain "clarity and resourcefulness in people" driving the economic recovery.

 "Coaching can be the 'oil' that enables the rest of a management development agenda deliver tangible outcomes and results. A senior strategic leadership programme for example, is going to have much longer lasting impact, and a much greater return on investment, if each individual is supported by an independent coach as they go through their programme," she added. 

  

Recent research by workplace psychologists OPP highlighted that poor leadership and lack of communication are among the biggest threats to success in the UK's workplaces.