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A coach can help you with most types of goals. It's up to you to decide what goals are important to you and what you want help with. If you're stuck and can't seem to be able to make up your mind right now, that's actually a very common starting point for a lot of coaching relationships.
Developing clarity and sorting out what's ultimately important to you deep down inside, may be a great first step to take. All coaches worth their salt know how to help you get unstuck in a jiffy. Let's look at the goals first in the context of personal coaching, and then for business or corporate coaching. Personal coaching Here is what a fairly recent survey of coaching clients found that coaches had helped with and the results achieved. Issues or goals worked on with the coach
Most of us recognize these issues as pretty much the same ones we struggle with ourselves. Funny how that works, eh; people are people, including you and I. These are not the only issues people work on with their coaches, of course. Coaching is developing a growing number of specialized services. As coaching becomes ever more established, we can expect that the types of issues dealt with will widen as well. The results of coaching Given the issues that, what were the outcomes? What did people feel they achieved by working with their coaches? The following table tells the story.
Source: International Coaching Federation. Do any of these result look like something you would want to see more of in your life? Most of us would agree. I know I'm looking for a couple myself. The above are results from personal coaching as you can tell by the absence of business specific types of goals and results. Now, let's look at the business side of things. Business, corporate or executive coaching A recent study (Manchester, Inc., 2001) reported a return on investment of 5-6 times the cost of coaching given to 100 executives of mostly Fortune 1000 companies Improvements identified by the executives themselves were:
I also want to share with you the results of an older, but very extensive study on the value of building a "performance enhanced business culture". A performance enhanced culture is one where learning and personal development is accepted and expected to the point where the whole organization has built up a supporting infrastructure, a system, to make this possible and easy. This study was done at Harvard University for an 11 year time frame. When you see the results, I think you will be impressed. Here is what they concluded:
What this means to you For a long time we have had strong anecdotal evidence of coaching successes and the remarkable achievements people have experienced working with coaches. We now have a growing body of independent research results telling us the same story. This should give you increased confidence that coaching as a way to achieve personal and business success works and can deliver on its promise.
What is Coaching? What is the Coaching Voyage? The Benefits of Coaching Goals that Coaching Can Help With How Coaching Works |
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you... If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same." Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) What is Coaching? What is the Coaching Voyage? The Benefits of Coaching Goals that Coaching Can Help With How Coaching Works 
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