7 Powerful Keys to Why Coaching Works
Coaching focuses on your needs and addresses your agenda
Coaching clarifies your values and motivation
Coaching confronts and shifts your limiting beliefs, helping you get “unstuck”
Coaching opens up new perspectives and possibilities
Coaching empowers you to take action and hold yourself accountable for the results you want
Coaching supports you in accomplishing your goals by capitalizing on your strengths
Coaching produces breakthrough results, and nothing inspires like results
A Definition of Coaching
“Partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” The International Coaches Federation
Benefits of Coaching
“Coaching helps people in three ways: First, no one gets listened to in life. A coach does listen and allows leaders to reflect about their decisions, and about themselves. Second, people usually avoid difficult truths. Coaching brings reality front and center. Third, people don’t know how to change. A coach can guide a client to find replacements for behaviour that’s not working.”
- Sherpa Coaching Report
“One of the big benefits of a coach is that they aren’t tied to the organization, your friends, or anyone else. They are tied to you only, so they support what you want and where you want to go. The perspectives they provide, the alternatives discussed, and everything else has no agenda except to support the client.”
– Harvard Business School
Why The Coaching Agreement is Key
The Coach Agrees:
To support the client’s vision and be highly committed to helping them reach their desired outcomes
To create a supportive, non-judgmental space for learning, challenge, growth, and change
To expect a high degree of involvement and ownership from the client, recognizing that the true work of coaching belongs to the client
To assist the client in creating actions necessary to the reaching of their goals
To help the client become aware of and embrace their unique values and strengths, inspiring them to confidence, action, and service resulting in renewed purpose and fulfillment
The Client Agrees:
To express their commitment to themselves by being fully engaged in the coaching process
To see themselves as valuable, capable, resourceful, creative, and resilient
To pursue new awareness of possibilities and make choices that will serve their aspirations
To follow through on actions they have designed in order to receive the greatest benefit, understanding they are responsible for the outcomes of the coaching experience
To trust the process and anticipate meaningful results