Hello, I am Roach the Coach and I am your guide through the Coaching Chronicles. There are 4,500 species of us cockroaches so we are well placed, across the globe, and across time, to tell you about coaching… An 11th century Benedictine monk described the Normans as “a race skilful in flattery, given to the study of eloquence, so that the very boys were orators, a race altogether unbridled unless held firmly down by the yoke of justice”. Which pretty much characterises modern-day coaches. The French king, Charles the Simple, gave land in the north of France to the...