The Executive and Business Coaching Network offers research and analysis service to support your efforts to improve performance through coaching in your organisation. Our quality coaches are experienced in this coaching analysis and will serve as an objective partner.

We will work with you to develop and implement a study to help you:

• Understand the potential value of a coaching program with relevant stakeholders such as potential participants and their managers using telephone or face-to-face interviews
• Gain valuable information that can be used to develop or fine-tune a coaching programme
• Monitor results during a coaching programme, using online forms and telephone interviews, so that improvements can be made
• Evaluate the impact of a coaching programme upon the stakeholders and the company overall

This analysis can provide justification for an investment in a coaching programme. It can also help you strengthen your relationship with your clients and add value because it fosters a coaching culture within organizations by educating the company about coaching and its value.

Successful coaching programmes include research as one of the key elements. Based on our experience, a successful coaching programme:

• Identifies specific objectives that tie into company goals
• Enables participants to understand what coaching means in the context of a programme
• Provides participants with the opportunity to articulate　how coaching could improve their performance, which is gathered through research
• Includes quality coaching
• Monitors results (honestly), makes adjustments as needed, and explores how the programme could be improved

To initiate an analysis project, we will begin by listening to you and asking questions to get a thorough understanding of the goals of the coaching programme you are planning. We will then share with you the recommended methodology.

Some of the basic questions that we use to evaluate the potential of a coaching programme are:

• Do potential participants understand what coaching is about, and are they interested in taking part?
• Are potential participants prepared to give genuine feedback?
• Do potential participants think coaching could be being beneficial?
• What do potential participants want to get out of coaching?
• What would make the programme successful for potential participants?
• What are the potential financial benefits to coaching?
• What are other benefits that may result from the coaching programme?

When monitoring a coaching program in process, some of the basic questions that research can answer are:

• What are the financial results so far?
• What other results have been generated?
• Do participants want to continue with the programme?
• What do participants like about the programme?
• How could the programme be improved?

When reporting results at the conclusion of a study, research can answer questions such as:

• Has the coaching programme met its objectives?
• What results were achieved?
• What are the improvements among participants?
• What financial and other benefits are estimated?