title: [Coaching in the health setting: an approach to its viability].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the contributions that the participants in a formative activity elaborated respect the viability of the coaching in the health environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative study of the contributions of the 18 participants in the workshop upon applications of the coaching in the health environment carried out the month of March 2002 at the Institute of Health Studies (IHS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The contributions deal with: a) the opportunities: help to healthcare professionals that become to exercise directive responsibilities and strategies to help for the cultural change, and b) the objections: resistance to change, utilization as punishment, results difficult to measure.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The methodology of the coaching is susceptible of being applied in persons that they should exercise a key paper in a health organization, above all in process of change.
authors.affiliation: Consultor de organizaciones. Barcelona. Spain.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Clèries
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D006281:Health Occupations; D013030:Spain