The Benefits and Advantages of Coaching

Still not clear on what coaching is?  Here’s a definition

For the Coach

  • You don’t have to have all the answers
  • Unleashed creativity … more options and choices open up … less a sense of limitation or stuckness.
  • Fewer barriers to innovation, … solutions arrive rather than continued head-banging
  • Agreements upheld more often
  • Shared responsibility frees you up to innovate, focus on building relationships
  • (If manager or supervisor is coaching) Better employee performance

For the Person Being Coached

  • Employee feels more intrinsically motivated and in charge
  • Increased commitment to doing one’s best
  • Agreements upheld more often … feels good to be one’s word more often
  • Increased self-esteem and confidence
  • More creativity and support for innovative problem-solving
  • Better results, influence, advancement and abundance … a sense of greater worth, intrinsic and otherwise