This research sought to identify distinctions in the practice of coaches within
Scotland. A survey design was adopted, with a snowball sampling strategy
generating 74 responses. The data from coaches within Scotland, compared with
that from respondents in other European nations, suggest that: a greater proportion
of the Scottish coaching community are male, that coaches commonly evaluate at
the end of every meeting and also seek feedback from commissioning managers as
well as clients, that there are numerous approaches to coaching and also to
continuous professional development that are less widely adopted in Scotland, that
the reputation of the coaching provider is often an important factor for those
commissioning coaching and that there are preferences for certain coaching models
when presented with particular client issues. Recommendations are made for future
analytical research to identify causal factors for any phenomena that can be
cautiously determined from this data set
