The article is about the important and widely discussed issue of the financial evaluation of the effciency of coaching, mentoring and trainings. Me authors question how human development projects should be treated in accounting: more as operational costs or long term investments. Mey explain when projects are pro&table and how to measure the profitability of such projects. Me article presents the main assump-tions and methods of the financial evaluation of coaching, mentoring and training eficiency. Me authors present the Kirkpatrick ’s Model and Philips’ Model. Finally the authors present the results of an evaluation study that they conducted in Polish conditions using the mentioned methods.

Me authors of this article give acomparative review of coaching session models that are based on the GROW model and they present their own elaborated plan of acoaching session, which can be used when working with clients. Mis model includes impor-tant factors that are essential in order to effectively change the initial situation of the client and to achieve the intended goals.

The paper presents the conceptualization of coaching, which means it describes the process how the meaning of coaching was determined. At the beginning the etymology and semantics of coaching and its origin is described. Th e author makes then a critical review of coaching defi nition in three diff erent perspectives: historical, alternative and classic. Next, the coaching relationships to other form of intervention and its taxonomy are presented. At the end an author’s defi nition of coaching in organizational approach is introduced.

The aim is to examine how the level of consciousness of an individual determines his/her motivation for personal development. In the first part of the paper, authors present the concept of the Map of Consciousness created by the American psychiatrist and researcher David R. Hawkins. In the second part, they discuss how the model can be applied to coaching practice, allowing the coach to fully support the coachee not only in fulfilling his/her development needs stemming from his/her current level of consciousness, but also in reaching subsequent levels of self-improvement.