The coaching organization provides an organizational perspective on how coaching can become part of an organization‎'‎s culture‎.‎ The book offers ‎"‎Best practices‎"‎ that will help organizations deploy developmental coaching on a large scale to drive leadership and employee effectiveness‎.‎ The popularity of coaching in organizations is enormous‎.‎ However‎,‎ coaching initiatives are often deployed on an ad hoc and unmanaged basis and as such often yield disappointing results‎.‎ The coaching organization provides a guide for the strategic management of coaching initiatives‎,‎ including executive coaching‎,‎ internal coaching‎,‎ coaching by managers and peer coaching‎,‎ so as to maximize their impact and value‎.‎ Using case studies from organizations such as whirlpool‎,‎ wachovia‎,‎ children‎'‎s hospital boston and citizens financial group‎,‎ as well as entrepreneurial ventures the authors‎,‎ respected academics in the fields of employee and leadership development‎,‎ describe how both large and small organizations leverage relationship based‎,‎ on the job learning and offer insights that executives‎,‎ line managers‎,‎ human resource and organizational effectiveness professionals as well students will find actionable‎.‎