Life and leadership coaching can be the key to unlocking your greatest potential. Life coaches help you gain clarity on what you want to achieve. Leadership coaches (also called executive coaches) can provide valuable guidance on how to maximize your leadership role.
Some coaches–like me–do both. With their assistance, you can create a clear path toward success in your personal and professional life. They have the training and experience to help you stay motivated, balance work with other aspects of life, develop essential skills for success, and more!
Keep reading to learn more about how having a life and leadership coach could make all the difference in achieving your dreams.
Life coaching invests in the person. Executive coaching invests in the leader.
1. Coaching is An Investment in You
Hiring a coach and bravely working through the creative coaching process is not glamorous. It’s not a luxury item or commodity that can be turned directly into profit.
It’s an investment in yourself, your growth, and your future. The process refines your thinking so that you can align your behaviors with your desires and values.
You have so much potential in you–solutions for your business, creativity for your life. Life coaches and executive coaches provide structure, support, and accountability to unlock that potential.
2. Coaching Clarifies Your Desires
It can be difficult to make sense of your motivations. What you want is not always clear and why you want it is less clear without guided thinking.
Human beings are complex because we want many things all at once. We need constant inner adjustment and clarification whether we are on a growth track, see an opportunity, suffer disappointment, feel stuck, or experience change.
Life and leadership coaching sheds light on the direction you should take by guiding you to make your desires crystal clear. That makes for dependable goal setting because when you know what you want and why you want it, your priorities and next steps can be set in proper order.
A client can use a coach to explore obstacles holding them back in their career, relationships, and leadership.
3. Coaching Reveals Blindspots
One of the most valuable aspects of life and leadership coaching is that it helps to reveal blindspots, areas in our lives where we have an inaccurate view or lack insight.
As you answer a coach’s questions and hear them reflect on what they are getting from you, things you’ve been overlooking become glaringly obvious. Discovering your blindspots may sound disturbing, but Identifying unconscious weaknesses is a relief.
When you’re missing something, your soul knows it; and it won’t let you relax until you’ve found it. When you are aware of what once was in the dark, you have the power to address it!
The sense of relief my clients feel is often dramatic when a limiting belief or counterproductive habit is uncovered. Their shoulders relax and sometimes they smile or sigh. I always enjoy the look of hope on their face.
4. Coaching Highlights Options and Resources to Empower You
It’s a good thing that we naturally identify what’s wrong and lacking. That innate problem analysis keeps us on our toes! However, that’s often where we get stuck when we are overwhelmed or in a time of growth and change.
A Life and leadership coach is trained to help you shift out of what coaching guru, Marilee Adams, calls a Judger mindset to a Learner mindset. When your God-given ability to spot danger turns into a mud-pit of unhelpful criticism, a coach helps you to climb out and see hope.
Marilee has a fantastic tool for improving your mindset called The Choice Map. If you take their quick survey about your current mindset, you can receive that tool for free HERE.
An executive coach and/or life coach will push you to identify all the options available to you. Our situations are usually not as dire as we perceive them to be. If you think you only have one or two options, hire a good coach. They’ll help you explore all of your options and encourage you to list the resources you have at your disposal.
Many of my clients are shocked when they see how many choices of strategies, books, people, organizations, and tools they have to overcome their challenges!
Inspiration comes when there is a safe place for it.
5. Coaching Provides Space for Insight and Guidance for Action
A coaching session is a safe space to explore your inner world with an objective third party. All life coaches who adhere to the International Coaching Federation ethical standard are sworn to be confidential and non-judgmental with every client.
They create room for deep processing through active listening, empowering questions, unwavering faith in your ability to succeed, and reflections on what you express to them as you dig into your thoughts, emotions, and values.
This deep processing generates exciting creative insights as your soul sorts things out.
Once these insights have been thoroughly evaluated, the coach will guide you to turn your new understanding into action that brings the results you want.
That’s the life coaching secret sauce, action.
Coaches encourage action to accelerate the change in you that makes it possible to achieve goals and make decisions that will create a full and abundant life.
Examples of How Working with A Life and Executive Coach Can Make All The Difference In Achieving Your Dreams
If you are wondering if coaching works, the data speaks for itself – coaching has a positive, quantifiable impact.
A Leadership coach can improve your leadership skills and professional life.
Here are just a few stats* that show the incredible benefit of coaching:
The Human Capital Institute reports that “Over half (51%) of organizations with a strong coaching culture have higher revenue than other, similar companies without the same culture. 62% of employees in these organizations feel highly engaged.”
The 2009 ICF Global Coaching Study found that “73% of coaching clients say that coaching helps them improve their relationships, communication skills (72%), interpersonal skills (71%), work performance (70%), work/life balance (67%), and wellness (63%).”
“75% of coaching clients say that the value they get from executive and leadership coaching is “considerably greater” or “far greater” than the money and time they invest.”–International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring
My coach helped me develop leadership skills.
My own experience echoes all of the above. The first leadership coach I hired worked with me for over four years. His monthly coaching sessions empowered me to take full responsibility for the church I led. I was able to lead massive changes with integrity and clarity. Now, our church is growing and healthier than ever.
It doesn’t take long for coaching to make a difference.
My amazing clients are making huge gains in their lives.
“I’ve felt stuck for years. I spent most days on a hamster wheel of thoughts that lead me to the same exhaustion, discouragement, and hopelessness. Having someone who can not only listen but help me break down something big into achievable steps has been exactly what I needed. I’ve taken action and made real progress in my perspective, habits and goals.”–Anonymous Client
“Coaching has helped me combat a season of regression. It has helped me find new solutions to the difficulties that I have in life and provide helpful resources to help in my growth.” –Ethan
“The time I spent with Josh was quite helpful in defining some management and communication techniques that will help me with my team. Additionally, there were points we discussed that I can use in my personal life as well.” –Noel
“During our time together I was able to experience mental and emotional clarity. I also walked away with the resolve to change for the better. This was an investment in my personal growth that I would choose to make over and over again.”–Jeff
Life and Leadership Coaching May Be Just What You’re Looking For
Coaching is a powerful tool to help you reach your goals in life and business. It provides a safe space to gain clarity on what you want, remove self-doubts, and move forward with confidence toward success.
Through active listening, empowering questions, unwavering faith in your ability to succeed, reflections, and guidance to turn new understanding into action – a coach helps people to make their ambitions a reality.
You can experience its life-changing benefits as I have! Let’s partner together today to unlock your full potential!