In today's competitive supply chain environment, top executives increasingly acknowledge that sustaining global competitiveness requires a dedicated effort to develop and retain leadership skills throughout the organization.

Athletes and actors have known for years about the value of coaching in improving performance. Now more and more individuals are turning to coaches to help guide them through the increasing complications of day-to-day life and business.

They have realised that they are not likely to excel without the expert guidance of professional coach supporting their development.

A recent survey shows that most companies are poor at developing their executives often, because of a belief that talent will rise by itself or that needed skills can always be brought in from outside. But with current pressures on the South African skills pool, leaving executive development to chance is risky.

 A recent skills development study showed that coaching is 60% more effective than formal training in improving individual performance. The study found that training alone increased productivity by 22.4%, whilst combined with coaching increase productivity by 88%.

Companies are focusing much more on the development and retention of internal talent in order to be successful. To retain and develop talent organisations are:

• including executive development as part of organizational design,
• identifying key talent that is core to future strategy,
• sharing knowledge across the corporation,
• creating a learning culture, and
• establishing high-performance teams to ensure corporate success.

Executive Coaching is a ninety’s innovation taking a holistic view of how to integrate work, corporate values, personal needs and career development synergistically, and not make them work against one another.