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Carol Wilson explores tools and skills in a new series of ‘Tools of the Trade’ that describes the basic tools of a coaching conversation or culture. This month, she examines the fundamentals of coaching: its history and what the term actually means, Training Journal May 2010

Coaching is a relatively new profession and yet, arguably, as old as human communication itself. Socrates is sometimes deemed to be the first coach because of sayings such as: “I cannot teach anybody anything; I can only make them think.”

So how did the skills we term ‘coaching’ become recognised as the method of communication we know today?

Today’s complicated and demanding environment needs leaders with the skills and resilience to cope, says Terry Sexton, Training Journal May 2010

Up to two thirds of today’s leaders are predicted to fail. Is this a terrible indictment of leadership today or the result of the unprecedented business environment in which we find ourselves?