While there are many people, products, and services out there claiming to change your life, coaching is the one thing that can actually deliver on this promise.
Because it has a powerful and positive impact on self-confidence, wellness, and work performance, professional coaching also allows your team members to benefit from as well. With good coaching comes better mentoring, leadership development, and it introduces a healthy culture that the manager brings back into the organization.
A good, expert coach will empower the individual to find their own answers within themselves. In the coaching partnership, it’s the one being coached and not the coach, who sets the goals, defines the playbook, and determines what success looks like to them.
A trustworthy coach provides committed expertise and brings insight, perspective, and a growth mindset to the relationship.
Unlike most other personal and professional relationships, a coach sees their coachee holistically and encourages them to bring their whole self to the coaching sessions.
5 Benefits of Executive Coaching
With the profound potential impact executive coaching can have on individuals in their personal and professional lives, it’s no surprise that coaching is on the rise. The benefits can often be seen and/or felt immediately, but also continue to be helpful for years to come, as you go from role to role, over the course of a career and in your lifetime. There are very few training programs and organizations that can make that claim.
Helping individuals see themselves more clearly is just one of many crucial ways in which coaching can help. A coach provides a safe space and structure for one to reflect on that which is necessary for learning and growth. A professional coach will help you identify and understand what your values are and where your actions part ways from your values and identified goals.
A good coach can help you reconnect with what you love about your life and your work.
1. Self-Awareness
A foundational skill for both personal and professional development, once in place, coachees can work to build deeper insight into what they want and future areas of growth.
2. Resilience
With constructive feedback comes improved self-awareness, and it’s at this point that people develop improved stress tolerance. When leaders are more resilient, they’re better able to adapt to changing or unfavorable circumstances successfully. In turn, this decreases the likelihood of burnout and improves satisfaction overall, between life & job.
3. Communication
We know that stress negatively affects us in a myriad of ways, with communication being one at the forefront of that which is impacted. Poor communication exacerbates stressful situations while developing effective communication skills can help individuals in all aspects of their lives, both in and out of the workplace.
4. Work-life balance
With coaching, people take time to set their own priorities and work to make them a greater part of their lives. That empowers them to maintain a better work-life balance. These individuals tend to gain more job and life satisfaction. This can be attributed to both improved self-care and greater alignment with their goals.
5. Increased mental health
Among other dimensions of mental health, life satisfaction, purpose, and social connection improve. These, along with emotional regulation, reliably improve mental health for coaching participants.
Coaching isn’t a secret fix, it’s a scientific one, but it sure would be nice if there was an overnight fix to personal and professional growth, right?
Utilizing a coach is a powerful tool that helps create a more productive and engaging working environment. Life coaching can help you identify & dictate your personal or professional development goals, create a plan to reach those goals, with actionable steps, and can provide you with profound clarity as an individual and a team leader, allowing you to bring that clarity back to the table with you.
This will help you to be a positive and effective communicator and leader.
If you’re ready to take action and bring peace, clarity, and a sense of calm to your life, or to your company, now is the time to reach out.
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I hope to speak with you soon.
Namaste,
Kiki