Generative Coaching Defined
Have you ever left a session feeling unseen and unheard, confused, or like a problem? Or perhaps you’ve felt like someone threw lots of tools at you and expects you to know how to use them in everyday life? Let me explain what Generative Coaching is and how you are actively involved! In fact, you pretty much ARE the session!
Generative Coaching is defined as a partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. This process evokes self-awareness and awakens the clients’ unchartered territory which leads to exploring, locating, and unlocking blocked paths that would otherwise remain undiscovered. Then, the person or team is coached into attunement to those new findings. It’s a very thorough process with a specific coaching framework and technique.
Coaching is a powerful tool for teams that are stuck, ununified, and unproductive. Coaching is a nice way to reveal a deep-seated obstacle. Coaching is also very beneficial for businesses who have a revolving door or high turnover rates but can’t ascertain the “why”. It can also keep an already motivated team resilient as they push through with a positive mindset to meet team’s goals.
Coaching is an actionable process that calls upon you to come open, humble, and hungry for the deep and uncomfortable process of change and growth.
Coaching Research Findings
The International Coaching Federation (ICF) conducted research on coaching and mental health and overall well-being. Here are the findings.
99% of individuals and companies who hire a coach are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the experience.
80% of coaching clients say that they improved their self-esteem or self-confidence thanks to coaching.
73% of coaching clients say that coaching helps them improve their relationships, communication skills, interpersonal skills, work performance, work/life balance, and wellness.
51% of companies with a strong coaching culture have higher revenues than other companies in their industry.
68% of individuals who hired coaches were able to make back their investment. Financially, the return on investment was 3.44X the original investment.
85% of coaches are accredited or approved by a professional coaching organization (up by 4% from 2015). (2020 ICF Global Coaching Study)
SELF
A case study of women leaders who participated in coaching shows that leadership coaching can help coaching clients improve their self-awareness, self-confidence, self-leadership, leadership style, and their relationship to power, conflict, and personal life. (International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring)
HEALTH
Life coaching can improve health outcomes for certain patients. A limited analysis of two randomized controlled trials found that coaching methods that aim to improve self-efficacy and self-empowerment can improve health outcomes especially for people who don’t benefit from intensified interventions. (BMC Health Services Research)