OBJECTIVE: To analyse the contributions that the participants in a formative activity elaborated respect the viability of the coaching in the health environment. METHOD: 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.
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the contributions that the participants in a formative activity elaborated respect the viability of the coaching in the health environment. METHOD: 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.