Coaching Handbook: An Action Kit for Trainers and Managers

We define a development need as:

The difference between current and required (or desired) performance.

Identifying a development need involves being clear about what your start point is and what the desired end point is going to be.

Development needs can be met in a number of ways “ coaching is one of them “ we will talk shortly about the correlation between coaching and other development activities such as line management, training and counselling.