GREAT COACHING QUOTES

FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

"...the quickly growing wave of coaching relationships that are helping small-business owners improve their business skills, recalibrate their approaches to management, and, often, totally reboot and re-balance themselves as leaders on the job and in the home and community."
Dale D. Bliss, Nation's Business

"Most leaders like executive coaching because: they receive direct one-on-one assistance from someone they respect; they don't have to leave their offices; it fits their time frames and schedules; they can see fast results, if they're dedicated." Training & Development.

“Bob Wright, an executive coach, says his clients are needing him even more during the downturn, tough times are a great opportunity for those businesses who can make the hard, right decisions during difficult transition and adjustment periods and that's what coaching is all about, learning how to change and grow.”

Management Today

"Iron sharpens iron, So one man sharpens another."

Proverbs 27:17 NASB

"It's not comfortable to have someone constantly telling you how you can be better. But it's very hard to get better on your own."

David S. Pottruck, co-CEO of Charles Schwab & Co.

"Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals."
CNN.com, 5/28/2001

“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities”

Bob Nardelli, CEO, Home Depot

“Coaching simply speeds up a process of change that would most likely occur anyway if an individual had enough time. Without a coaching program that forces a client to focus and make time, people sometimes miss the real issues they need to focus on.”

The Ivy Business Journal, September-October 2000.

“I'll bet most of the companies that are in life-or-death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn't pay enough attention to developing their leaders.”

Wayne Calloway, Chairman, Pepsico Inc.

"A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out."
Proverbs 20:5 NASB

*Source of some quotes from www.sam101.com, a Coachville web site. Used under the Fair Use Rules of the U.S. Copyright Law.