A Comparison of Internal and External Executive Coaching

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the asset of different forms of executive coaching through finding statistically significant differences in the perception of selected aspects of coaching between the participants of internal and external coaching. To fulfill the research objective five statistical hypothesis were tested by using of Mann Whitney U test. Research results have shown the existence of statistically significant differences between internal and external coaching in four cases. Realized research provides knowledge that will enable a deeper understanding the fact that the way of implementation of coaching affects the resulting benefits of the method of development of executives.