Benefits of Coaching

The benefits of coaching and creation of a coaching culture within an organisation are widely researched, proven and measured to provide significant return on investment to the organisation and the individual.

Benefits to the Individual

Benefits to the Organisation

Improve productivity, quality, customer service and shareholder value
Can gain increased employee commitment and satisfaction, which can lead to improved retention
Demonstrate to employees that an organisation is committed to developing its staff and helping them improve their skills
Support employees who’ve been promoted to cope with new responsibilities
Help employees to sort out personal issues that might otherwise affect performance at work
Gain a satisfactory process for self-development
Support other training and development initiatives e.g. reduce “leakage” from training courses
Promotes a “learning organisation”
Challenges perceptions and practices to enable cultural change
Enables people to learn through action, doing and application
Improved confidence and communication skills enables manager to lead by example

Think about this – over a ten year period, companies that intentionally “managed their cultures well” outperformed organisations that did not.

(Source – Kotter & Heskett 1992)

For a full report take a look at the ECI – Europes Accreditation body for Coaches and Training Providers here.