I met Jon Ingham (@joningham) earlier this year when we both spoke at an HR Conference in Dubai, and I’ve been following his blog with pleasure ever since – I like how he’s willing to take a stand and make a point about how to make HR much more effective in organizations.

We’ve been debating the benefits of building a coaching culture in organizations.

I laid down my position here, and you can see Jon and me taking different stands in the comments. (If you’d like, drop me an email and I’ll send you a copy of the article.)

Jon’s just stirred the pot again here – part of an excellent series he’s just done reporting from the CIPD conference in Manchester.

The executive summary of our two positions:
I say don’t don’t build a Coaching Culture.
He says you should

(Actually, I don’t think our two positions are actually that far away from each other… after all, Box of Crayons’ flagship product is our Coaching for Great Work program giving managers practical coaching skills.)

But what about you? Is coaching flourishing in your organization? And where do you stand on building a culture committed to coaching?