Executive coaching: An outcome study.

While executive coaching continues to mushroom as a practice area, there has been little outcome research.This articles presents the results of a study that explored factors influencing the choice of a coach, executives' reactions to working with a coach, the pros and cons of both internal and external coaches, the focus of executive coaching engagements, indications of successful coaching engagements, coaching tools executives favored, and the sustainability of coached executives' learning and behavior change.The author also raises a question about which executives are most likely to benefit from this development resource and presents a typology for gauging this issue.