Another case study around talent management and retention of high performers involved a large US
Fortune 20 company, that wanted to provide coaching for a couple of hundred high potentials. They had
several hundred people in a specific pool of talent who were going to be their future senior executives and
key leaders, and they wanted to provide coaching to all of these people over some time.
Coaches were trained in groups of 20, with the first 20 including the CEOs of some of the divisions and
very senior executives in the C-Suite, to really send the right message. The coaches were then matched
with one to two people each, to do six months of coaching every two weeks, so an hour of coaching
every two weeks for six months, again using two business goals and one personal goal. The objective
was to provide coaching to 200 plus high potentials over a few years. The cost and effort in that would
have been prohibitive using external coaching. In doing this internally, the benefits too, stay in-house.