Talk:Life & Personal Development Coaching

Merger Proposal
I believe "Life and Personal Development Coaching" is the same as "Life Coaching", the former being UK denomination and the latter being American. --Dwarf Kirlston 15:25, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You're correct. This should be deleted or merged. Doesn't look like there is even much here to merge though. Rray 01:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

After I've taken a closer look, there seems to be a larger issue. For some reason, despite there really being little to no difference between the many ""types"" of coaches we have coaching life coaching, Life & Personal Development Coaching, business coaching, executive coaching, systemic coaching, dating coaching... This is a mess! I have just edited the disambiguation page to include the various "types" of coaching. I personally think Coaching suffices, most of the information in the other ones is repeated over and over like "coaching is not therapy nor consulting" and sound like advertising.--Dwarf Kirlston 17:21, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with you, although I think there is a distinction between this kind of coaching and sports coaching, for example. But I think lumping executive, business, and life coaching all into one article makes excellent sense. Rray 18:32, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * This one at least should be merged with life coaching and yes it is called that even in the UK, not 'life and PD coaching'. The dating one could go in there too.  I don't know whether you'd succeed in merging 'executive' etc coaching in, but I'd suppoort that.  Sports coaching is a different, older thing I think.Merkinsmum 13:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed! Merging is justified. Said: Rursus ☻ 15:44, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest leaving it under "coaching" since coaching is an umbrella for different types of coaching, i.e. life, business, executive, etc. When people talk about sports coaches it is usually self understood or at least understood in the context. It would be easier then to link the different types of coaching within the "coaching" page. Nick Zart, 11/5/07.

I couldn't agree more. This seems like a mess. I just finished cleaning up the executive coaching page, but it seems rather short. I think a merge would be highly appropriate. Business coaching and Executive coaching seem to be about the same thing. --Anonymous--

I agree with the need to merge life & personal development coaching with life coaching, however, I feel it would detract from Wikipedia to try to fit all forms of coaching under the coaching umbrella, as this is simply too generic. Marksharratt (talk) 18:23, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Life Coaching should not be merged with other coaching. Life coaching is coaching in all areas of life like social, finance, career, physical, family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajeshmsharma (talk • contribs) 06:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Note: I never said I would destroy/delete the other pages - rather that they (at the moment) were terrible quality.--Keer lls ton 10:46, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * They should be merged--Hu12 (talk) 01:27, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Business coaching is often focussed on entrepreneurial (can't believe I spelled that one right!) type activities, starting a business, etc. Executive coaching often focuses on practices needed in a more established company (such as personal management, talent development/retention, etc.) personally I feel the two are close enough to be merged, with Business coaching being more aimed at the start and executive coaching aimed more towards the midlife of a company. Same stuff, slightly different focus. As I see it: Coaching is sports/physical activity (dancing, bowling, etc.). Business/Executive coaching is focussed heavily on executives/management and entrepreneurs, Life coaching can include the above but also covers things like personal relationships, your primary relationship, finance, stress management, dealing with life in general (life, death, miscarriages, being fired, etc.) and so on. Seifried (talk) 09:24, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Aehumm! "Coaching" originally referred to sports and physical activity, but it seems the term is slowly acquiring a generalized meaning out there. It seems that there are general methods used for all kinds of coaching applications, that originally emerged from the sports coaching, especially visualization techniques combined with relaxation. I think all should be in one article, or referred from one main article. Said: Rursus ☻ 22:17, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Object to merging Coaching and Business coaching; possibly support merging personal coaching. As far as I can see, the first two are different to this article; the third may have sufficient overlap to justify a merge. However, in general, all of these articles are absolutely atrocious and need a total rewrite to achieve NPOV and verifiability. DWaterson (talk) 01:00, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Coaching is an umbrella and I suggest merging the other ones under that. Life coaching, personal coaching and business coaching are branches from the same tree and are easier to handle if kept together. Even I as a coach myself have a problem telling what the difference is. btwendel (talk) 17:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I am developing and re-deigning a number of life coaching sites and I would strongly disagree that life coaching should be merged with business coaching (what about personal relationships) or even personal coaching (as life coaching should cover private and business relationships, personal issues, relationship issues as well as career issues). I am also developing some business coaching sites. I think the subject matter and audience are entirely and very distinctly different. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Krish.Bhaskar (talk • contribs) 11:10, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Comments above have no merit and no rational justification. Just opinions without knowledge. Merger no way justified. Krish.Bhaskar (talk) 11:17, 16 February 2008 (UTC)