Business coaches guide employees of a company or other institution in order to improve their personal effectiveness, increase their job satisfaction, and positively impact their career development in the business setting. They do this by leading the coachee (the person who is being coached) to resolution of their challenges by their own means. Business coaches aim to address specific tasks or reach specific goals, as opposed to overall development.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Identifying training needs and requirements of individuals and organizations;
(b) Setting human resource development objectives and evaluating learning outcomes;
(c) Preparing and developing instructional training material and aids such as handbooks, visual aids, online tutorials, demonstration models and supporting training reference documentation;
(c) Designing, coordinating, scheduling and conducting training and development programmes that can be delivered in the form of individual and group instruction, and facilitating workshops, meetings, demonstrations and conferences;
(e) Liaising with external training providers to arrange delivery of specific training and development programmes;
(f) Promoting internal and external training and development, and evaluating these promotional activities;
(g) Monitoring and performing ongoing evaluation and assessment of internal and external training quality and effectiveness, and reviewing and modifying training objectives, methods and course deliverables;
(h) Gathering, investigating and researching background materials to gain an understanding of various subject matters and systems.