The latest trend in coaching is to help coaches and clients find each other. The degree to which these services deliver a true match creates questions about their real purpose. The value for either coaches or clients is non-existent or minimal for most of these services. Only two of these services actually interview clients to determine their coachability and screen coaches to determine their competence; the remainder are merely warehouses or computerized databases.
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