Marcy Rubin
Professional Life Coach
Professional Life Coach
Benefits of Coaching
The International Coach Federation defines coaching as an "Ongoing
professional relationship between A client and coach that helps people
produce fulfilling results in both their personal and professional
lives. Clients report that they deepen their learning, improve their
performance and enhance the quality of their lives."
Why People Work with a Life Coach:
People who work with an experienced Professional Life Coach report many benefits. A study conducted by the International Coach Federation reported the following on why people work with life coaches and what some of the benefits were.
Role of Coach: By far, most coaching clients pay their coach to be a sounding board to really listen to them and give honest feedback. Clients who could select as many choices as were applicable, characterized the role of their coach as the following:
- Sounding board: 84.8%
- Motivator: 78.7%
- Friend: 56.7%
- Mentor: 50.5%
- Business consultant: 46.7%
- Teacher: 41.0%
- Taskmaster: 30.5%
- Spiritual guide: 29.5%
- Other: 13.3%
Coaching Issues: Most clients turn to their coach for help on time management as well as career guidance and business advice. But they also seek coaching on relationships, family, wellness and spirituality. Clients who could selects as many choices as were applicable said they work with their coach on the following issues:
- Time management: 80.5%
- Career: 74.3%
- Relationships / Family: 58.6%
- Physical / Wellness: 51.9%
- Spiritual: 51.%
- Personal: 45.2%
- Goal-Setting: 39.5%
- Financial: 38.1%
- Creativity: 11.0%
- Other: 01.4%
Results of Working with a Coach: The outcomes that clients most often attribute to their coaching are a higher level of self-awareness and self-confidence, a more balanced life, smarter goal-setting and lower stress levels. Clients reported experiencing the following outcomes as a result to working with a coach:
- Self-awareness: 67.6%
- Setting better goals: 62.4%
- More balanced life: 60.5%
- Lower stress levels: 57.1%
- Self-discovery: 52.9%
- Self-confidence: 52.4%
- Improvement in quality of life: 43.3%
- Enhanced communication skills: 39.5%
- Project completion: 35.7%
- Health of fitness improvement: 33.8%
- Better relationships w/ boss, co-workers: 33.3%
- Better family relationship(s): 33.3%
- Increased energy: 31.9%
- More fun: 31.9%
- More income: 25.7%
- Stopped a bad habit: 25.7%
- Change in career: 24.3%
- More free time: 22.9%
- Increased profitability of business: 17.1%
- Other: 15.3%
- Started new business: 12.9%
- Empowered employees: 11.0%
- Business turn around: 9.0%
- Change in residential locations: 5.7%
Value of the Coaching Investment: A landslide of 98.5% of coaching clients said their investment in a coach was well worth the money.
- 70% of clients said their investment in a coach was Very Valuable
- 28.5% said their investment was valuable
- 1.5% said their investment in a coach had not been valuable
Are You Ready for Change?
I invite you to connect with me. I would love to talk with you, hear what you want to achieve, give you a feel for how life coaching really works, and answer any questions you might have. Reach me at Marcy@MarcyRubin.com, fill out my quick Contact Form, or leave me a private message at 617-347-8894 and I'll personally return your call.