WHAT IS COACHING?

There are so many different ways of describing what coaching is and it means different things to different people.

What is Coaching? International Coaching Federation defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership.”

For us here at Halse, coaching is about finding your strengths and using them to help create the world you want to live and work in.

To be very clear, coaching is not therapy, coaching is an action orientated process of checking in and working with you to challenge your limiting beliefs and ask you questions that you have never been asked before, only there will you find answers that you didn’t already know.

For me personally, coaching has transformed my life and since I obtained my first coaching qualification in 2016 it’s been changing things for those around me too. I have seen first hand the impact of positive coaching on team performance and it’s impact to improve resilience and support huge growth and personal development in teams.

The beautiful thing with coaching is the double benefit. Coaching for workplace performance almost always elicits positive change in the personal life of the coachee. Coaching around personal growth is often a huge unlock to professional growth and improved workplace performance.

In this age where staffing costs are increasing and so many businesses need to achieve more from the people that they have, coaching is one of the few investments that you can make which supports both the bottom line of the company and employee wellbeing.

If you’d like to know more about the stats on this reach out and book an intro call, but I think it’s fair to say, that according to Gallup data, engaged teams are 23% more profitable, it’s a call you can’t afford to put off.