This paper provides an overview on the development of a coaching culture. It focuses on the best practices that are developing within the US and the European Union and presents a five stage model for the development of a coaching culture within organizations. Me five stages are: Informal External Coaching, Professional External coaching, Coaching for A ll, Coaching as a Management Style and Coaching Across the Network. Me article suggests that many organizations have aspirations to build a coaching culture, but a large number of them are currently at level one, two or three a long this journey.

The present article describes in detail a model for coaching supervision, created on the basis of the author’s own experience and information acquired during an annual supervisor training programme led by the Academy of Executive Coaching.

This article presents arguments for applying the transactional analysis (TA) in the coaching. Theoretical notions, techniques and workings models of TA can arrange a practice of coaching. Coaching simply needs many theories as sources of its inspiration. TA refers to a current of positive psychology. It discusses a norm and a supporting the development and it does not concentrate on pathology. TA is the conception, which the language is simply, blunt and humorous.

The aim of the paper is to discuss methods of finding inner motivation that allows the coach, who has constant access to his/her resources, to support the coachee in the process of attaining the set goal. Authors have recourse to a metaphor: the coaching process is compared to a journey between the coachee’s current place and the place he/she wishes to reach, i.e. the goal of the coaching process. Further­more, the word “journey” refers to the etymology of the word motivation – mo­vere (to move).