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Coaching is a means for developing a partnership between the manager and employee that creates a shared understanding about what needs to be achieved and how it is to be achieved. Coaching, defined as an ongoing approach to managing people: creates a genuinely motivating climate for performance.

It is believed that coaches (and the word “coach”) came into use in England in the sixteenth century. The first usage of the word “coach” to refer to a person seems to be in an academic context, at the University of Oxford in the 1830s (online etymology dictionary).

Coaching was started by Thomas Leonard, a financial planner from the United States. He is often credited as the first to establish it as a profession in the 1980s and the idea and history of life coaching today owes much to him.

In the early 1800's, students at Oxford University used the term "Coach" as a slang expression for private tutors who helped people go from where they were (pre-test) to where they wanted to be (passed test).

However, coaches have diverged from the traditional transit bus and are now categorised as a separate form of transport. The name 'coach' was issued because of the vehicle's functional similarities to the horse-drawn carriages or 'stagecoaches' of the past. Further subsets of the coach have evolved over time.

It came from the French term coche and also from the Hungarian word kocsi, which meant “carriage”. Carriages were named that way because superior carts and wagons were designed in the small town of Kocs in Hungary. The meaning we use today originated at Oxford University in 1830.