Have you ever experienced the power of life coaching? Maybe you know a friend who has experience with coaching. For many, the role of a coach is to bridge the gap between where someone is, and where they would like to be. But coaching provides a number of added benefits and today we're sharing 5 unexpected ones!
For many, the idea of a coach is reserved for entrepreneurs, business owners and managers within the corporate world, however, we believe that coaching can make a long-lasting difference in the life of anyone.
Coaching will greatly benefit both individuals, groups and teams alike. Having unbiased and non-judgemental support will help you reach your goals faster and achieve better results than doing it alone. But helping you reach your goal is not the only valuable thing life-coaching brings to the table.
1. Helps with self-reflection
By its nature coaching assists with self-reflection and self-awareness. This is because there is no advice or input in the coaching process, rather the coach facilities change with an individual through exercises and asking the right questions.
Coaching encourages individuals to stop in their actions and learn to positively question themselves and look for solutions within.
2. Increase in self-confidence
Sometimes people confuse self-confidence with self-esteem or self-worth, and whilst it is part of it, confidence is very much about ‘doing’ whereas, esteem is about ‘being’.
While working with a coach, they will be helping you move at your own pace towards the goal, taking action to achieve your goal.
Furthermore, a coach will help you draw on your strengths, especially those you might have forgotten. Session after session you will become more confident because you will have remembered all the times you have been successful – evidence that you can move forward with confidence.
3. Encourages problem-solving
Through asking individuals what they want to do in a particular situation and reserving any advice, coaches are able to encourage problem-solving. Through asking questions like ‘how do you want to do this differently?’ or ‘how can we make this better?’ coaches offer a non-judgemental space to start thinking critically and from fresh perspectives.
This assist individuals to develop their critical decision-making skills.
4. Have a safe place where you feel heard
The impact of being heard can be profound for anyone.
Coaches offer a space to be actively listened to, allowing a new conversation that will help individuals move forward to achieve their goals.
By actively listening to you, your coach might reflect or mirror back what you just said, helping you clarify thoughts and ideas while allowing new perspectives to emerge.
5. It encourages taking ownership of one’s choices
Working with a coach will help you reflect on what is in your control and what is not, helping you focus on all the things you could do. For many, this reflection aids in the realisation that there are many things in their control and helps in taking responsibility for these things.
Coaching is a powerful and effective tool that can help you make positive steps forward towards your goals and your future.
Ultimately, the job of a coach is to empower individuals by helping them reflect on what’s important and to challenge preconceptions and limiting beliefs.
It’s a wonderfully rewarding job where you get to transform people’s lives – starting with your own.
Life coaching might be the path you are looking for. Find out how you could start a new career as a life coach, or add life coaching skills to your current work by attending our free 2-hour Introduction to Life Coaching training, which we run several times a week over Zoom.
Our programmes are all accredited by professional bodies and third-party organisations so you know that you are receiving the highest quality training.
The Coaching Academy was established in 1999, and is now the world's largest coaching school.
In that time we have trained over 14,000 people to become life coaches.
We are accredited by the International Coach Federation and the Association for Coaching, and we're rated 4.8 out of 5 on Trustpilot.
