THE 7 SURPRISING BENEFITS OF COACHING

15 August 2022

Often, a coaching client sighs during the intake session, saying, "I tried to find a solution to my question on my own, but it didn't work, so that's why I reached out for coaching." It seems as if seeking coaching is perceived as a sign of weakness. Like saying, "I couldn't figure it out on my own, and that's actually quite weak." Nothing could be further from the truth!

It's a sign of strength to want to further develop yourself; to work together with a coach to find answers that are already embedded within you but may not come to you when you're alone. Nowadays, every self-respecting senior manager or CEO has a coach.

Why would you want to do it all alone? I wish everyone had a coach, including myself. Coaching actually has a number of very surprising benefits:

1. The coach is 100% present for you
During coaching, the coach fully concentrates on you. Coaching assumes that the client is an expert in their own life. The coach's goal is to provide optimal support for your development process and to utilize everything that is helpful in that context.

2. Coaching helps you reflect on your values
Coaching takes you out of the daily hustle and bustle to ponder questions like: "What are my main motivations, what do I want to get out of life, what makes me happy?" This helps you live more in line with your values and stand up more for who you are.

3. Coaching helps you maximize your talents
Most of us know the feeling of being 'in our element.' When you do things that you're naturally good at, it comes easily to you, you effortlessly add value, and you enter a kind of flow. As a coach, I have unwavering faith in the talents every individual possesses, and it's my passion to help that potential blossom.

4. Coaching supports your emotional growth
Coaching focuses not only on cognition - everything that happens in our minds - but also on the information our hearts and feelings provide. Our knowledge, thoughts, opinions, and ideas offer many points of reference. Additionally, the coach helps you let your heart speak more and listen more to your feelings.

5. Coaching helps you find and maintain balance
In my coaching practice, I increasingly deal with issues related to overload, stress, panic, and burnout. Burnout is the number one epidemic of our time. And the clients are getting younger and younger. This worries me. Coaching can help adjust in a timely manner, make different choices in work and personal life in time, preventing burnout or severe depression.

6. Coaching helps improve your relationships
It might sound obvious, but if you take good care of yourself, you become a better partner, colleague, or friend. When you live in accordance with your values, use your talents, are in your element, and are emotionally balanced, it positively affects your relationships. Additionally, coaching works as a mirror. You gain more insight into your behavior and how others perceive you. You become aware that you can't change the other person, only your own behavior. Coaching provides tools for this.

7. Coaching offers surprising methods
Have you ever done visualization? Have you ever experienced organizational constellations? These and other methods are tailored during coaching sessions. They are extremely educational and inspiring. Moreover, Modus offers, in collaboration with Iscreen, the opportunity to use online questionnaires to map your character profile and communication style, which yields many new insights.