The impact of coaching extends well beyond the sessions, ensuring clients continue to make changes on a planned and permanent basis.
On an individual level, coaching:
Enables you to gain or raise your level of clarity in a given situation
Provides supportive assistance as you ascertain your ideal goals
Encourages you to explore new ideas and ways of thinking
Helps you to move beyond those things which are holding you back
Assists you to maintain motivation where you might previously have given up
Helps you to create strategies that will result in you achieving what it is you want
Allows space for you to reach clear and comfortable decisions
Is a process through which you can gain further self-awareness
Allows you to recognise opportunities to practice newly found skills and attitudes
Supports you as you push yourself out from your comfort zone
Benefits for Organisations
Today, business coaching is seen as a worthwhile, effective investment with many professionals using it continually to build and maintain their high performance. Business coaching quickly gets to the heart of issues, generating the practical solutions and clear plans needed to produce effective action and the realisation of goals. According to two recent UK surveys:
The main drivers for organisations implementing coaching are:
Improving individual and organisational performance
Improving staff retention and commitment
Employee motivation
Career planning
Supporting personal development
Improvements of implementing coaching were reported in:
Productivity
Customer Service
Staff retention
Cost reduction
Profitability
Staff confidence and self-empowerment
Skills enhancement
Goal achievement
The individuals who received coaching reported improvements in:
Relationships with colleagues and clients
Conflict resolution
Feeling part of a team
Improved work-life balance
Personal fulfilment
Increased sense of purpose and job satisfaction
Stress reduction within the workplace
79% of medium and large UK businesses report using coaching within their organisations