| Benefits of Coaching |
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What are the benefits of executive coaching ? Executive coaching is still a relatively new profession but it's growing rapidly as more and more leaders, executives and professionals recognise the benefits. It is now a $multi billion industry world wide.
The ‘Global Coaching Survey' conducted by Frank Besser Consulting in 2009 reached the following conclusion : "Coaching is definitely a global phenomeneum; the top 10 countries with the highest number of coaches include an Asian; an African and a South American country. However there remain extreme differences in the development and size of coaching markets depending on each continent and country. Europe, North America and Australia - representing just 20% of the population - comprise 80% of all the business coaches in the world". In their report 'Coaching and Buying Coaching Services' (2009) the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development reported : "Coaching has now come of age. Where it was once novel and innovative, it has become a routine intervention, with 71% of organisations using it as a method of developing people (CIPD 2008b). It has spread far and wide, from the knowledge-based high value companies in the private sector through to the big pillars of the public sector ... Organisations are increasingly mindful about how they use coaching as a part of organisational development, emphasising the importance of context and aligning coaching with the goals and purpose of the enterprise. Even as the clouds of the economic downturn gather, coaching will remain as the management intervention best suited for the uncertain, ever-changing and dynamic business world we now inhabit". The International Federatation of Coaching (IFC) has also conducted a number of studies on the benefits of coaching. The general consensus is that it offers the following benefits : For individuals ... For companies ...
To get a feel for some of the benefits my clients are experiencing go to testimonals. |
A higher level of self-awareness