Professional Training & Coaching January 2026
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Professional Training & Coaching
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Europe
36%
Asia
25%
Northern America
23%
Oceania
11%
MEA
2%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
58%
Male
41%
Non-Binary
0.27%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
69% of Professional Training and Coaching employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 46% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 6 and is in the bottom 8% compared with other industries.
How does Professional Training and Coaching compare?
People in Professional Training & Coaching were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection.
On the lower side, people in Professional Training & Coaching had much lower favorable scores than average in Company Performance, Collaboration & Communication, and Learning & Development.
People working in Professional Training & Coaching are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, and Government Administration. People working in Professional Training & Coaching are less engaged than Individual & Family Services, Cosmetics, Real Estate, and Biotechnology & Medical Devices.
The highest scoring question for Professional Training & Coaching had 90% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Social Connection.
People in Professional Training & Coaching were generally least favourable about Company Performance, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 22% of people disagreeing (+4% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 21% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 14% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+4% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
2%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
6%
1 to less than 2 years
13%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
13%
6 to less than 10 years
17%
Greater than 10 years
19%