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.‎