Overview
Coaching will help you gain deeper awareness of non-clinical situations, identify growth opportunities, and create action plans to achieve your goals. It challenges existing beliefs, fosters clarity, and provides accountability in a safe space. Coaches can assist in many different facets of life. Benefits of coaching include improved self-regulation, feeling of self-efficacy, mental health, performance, and job satisfaction.
Coaching Process
- Coaching is the process through which a coach helps a client get deeper awareness into a non-clinical situation, identify opportunities for growth, and create action plans to move towards their goals.
- Coaching accelerates the results for clients by helping them challenge their existing assumptions and beliefs. This generates clarity and creates new pathways for improvements.
- Coaches facilitate the process by providing a psychologically safe space for the client and providing guardrails through accountability.
- Coaching can unlock an individual's potential to maximize their performance. It does that by helping overcome habits of mind that inhibit excellence in performance.
Focus Areas Coaches Can Help With
- Stress related to workplace or life demands
- Productivity
- Communication skills
- Optimize individual workplace performance
- Increase self-confidence
- Manage a work-life balance
- Financial challenges
- Relationship issues
- The challenge of both parenting and working full-time in the same house
- Being let go or having to let people go
- Loss of momentum at work and a general feeling of burnout
- Managing remote teams effectively
- Moving forward in the face of uncertainty
Coaching Benefits
- Coaching allows you to move from current thinking, behaviors, and performance to expanded thinking and enhanced performance.
- Research suggests that coaching significantly improves feelings of self-efficacy and worth, allowing for increased self-confidence and ability to take on new tasks.
- Participation in coaching is tied with enhanced mental health, quality of life, and goal attainment.
- Coaching shows positive effects on performance/skills, well-being, coping, work attitudes, and goal-directed self regulation.
- Coaching has shown these positive effects on team members and peers:
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- Increased job satisfaction and work engagement
- Improved perception of strategic alignment of job and work-culture support
- Enhanced quality of communication
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Note: Please refer to this article if you have any questions relating to the breakdown of therapy versus coaching.