Top Five Reason To Hire A Business Life Coach

Business life coaching, small business coaching, employee relationsThe hiring of a business life coaches for personal and professional fulfillment is becoming more mainstream. I recently had the opportunity to spend three entire days with a group of coaches becoming certified in Positive Psychology coaching (that’s another blog). It was hugely fulfilling to learn together and to build a sense of community. The talented coaches came from all over the world and from various industries. Some of their employers were sponsoring them as internal coaches. This is encouraging for organizations and employees all over the world because typically only executives received professional coaching.

Companies like Zappos and Ruby Receptionist have found that coaching really does increase employee engagement. They get that coaching is an investment in their employees where the organization will see returns.

In no particular order, here are the top five reasons to hire a coach for your organization.

1. Improve your business. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or an entrepreneur, a business life coach can help you set and achieve bigger, badass goals and improve teamwork and communication. The results are happier, more productive employees.

2. Improve relationships. Coaching provides the safe space to become self-aware. When that happens, relationships benefit.  Coaches are mentors, sounding-boards, teaches and motivators (International Coach Federation, ICF, study 2009)

3. Improved confidence. In the ICF 2009 study, this was one of the top 3 responses. I can volunteer that because of my coaches, I have accomplished bigger goals. That has increased my confidence!

4. Life prioritization. Many call this work-life balance, but really there’s never a balance. When you have competing priorities, a business life coach can help you sort the less important tasks from the most important ones. (Also in the top three of the ICF study)

5. Strengths identification. What’s this? Using your strengths is a natural energy bar. Personal strengths give you enthusiasm and creativity. Focusing on weaknesses is dull and arduous. Developing untapped strengths is fun, exciting and productive. A great coach can help you with identifying your strengths.

But don’t trust me. Do a little research on your own. Scour the International Coaching Federation’s website, or Google the value of coaching. I hope you will find useful information  such as, the Manchester Consulting Group’s study of Fortune 100 executives that reports “coaching resulted in a ROI of almost six times the program cost as well as a 77% improvement in relationships, 67% improvement in teamwork, 61% improvement in job satisfaction and 48% improvement in quality.” In a different study of Fortune 500 telecommunications companies, MatrixGlobal  found executive coaching resulted in a 529% ROI.

Having sophisticated, goal-oriented employees is a good thing. Consider coaching as a tool for higher productivity and creating the work culture that fits for your business.

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