Coaching works!

11 Reasons why coaching helps people achieve their goals

Over the past few decades, millions of people have found out that career, life, and professional coaching works. It actually helps people change their lives and achieve their goals. Coaching works for many reasons. Let us explore some of those reasons.

1. Systematic approach
Coaching takes a systematic approach to helping clients achieve goals. Coaches are often trained to use a proven and effective model of identifying the situation of the client and then helping the client find his or her own path to success. A good coach will have a system that accommodates the different types of people and the different types of situations that people find themselves in. This systematic approach makes sense of chaos and confusion. It brings a sense of tangible direction for a client that can help them overcome their current situation and set out on a new path.
2. Empowerment focused
One important aspect of coaching is that it focuses on empowering people to achieve their own goals. A good coach is someone who teaches the client how to pick him or herself up and find the strength and vision to overcome resistance and hardship and persevere. Coaches recognize that people have the inner gifts they need to achieve their goals, and a coach’s job is to help the client discover and harness his or her own power.
3. Removes resistance
Many people have reasons they tell themselves why they have not achieved their goals. Maybe they have children, or debt, or an unsupportive spouse or friends, or maybe they have failed before. Whatever the reason, coaches know that these are often just excuses. Coaches call this resistance, and it is the job of the coach to help the client recognize that these reasons are not obstacles holding them back, but instead are challenges to be overcome. A good coach helps clients remove resistance and move to success.
4. Eliminates barriers
Besides the many excuses people have for not reaching their goals, some people do have legitimate reasons why they are not successful. Sometimes there are factors that are out of our control. Perhaps we have a sickness or a handicap. Perhaps we cannot pass as high as others on standardized tests. Perhaps we just don’t have the connections to break into a certain club or arena we feel we need to be part of. Coaches help clients deal with these barriers. Coaches help clients analyze the situation and make a plan for success no matter what the playing field. Sometimes its means changing the meaning of success, sometimes it means changing the rules of the game, sometimes it means changing games altogether. A coach is there to help.


5. Provides unbiased support and encouragement
In life, many people are working against you. Your boss may not want to see you promoted. Your teachers may not want to see you outshine them. Your parents may not believe you can be successful. Whatever the reason, people have agendas that sometimes bias that color their advice to you. A coach only succeeds when the client succeeds. A coach is paid to think in terms of the best interest of the client. A coach is free of the many biases and past experience that may be coloring peoples’ opinions of your situation.
6. Creates emotional connection to results
We humans are emotional creatures. Everything we do is because of emotion. No matter how rational we may think we are, in the end we are emotional creatures looking to satisfy emotional needs. We do what we want, and then use our powerful logical and rational faculties to justify those decisions. A good coach will recognize this fact and then use it to help the client. A good coach will help a client create an emotional desire to achieve his or her goals. This emotional drive will sustain and power the client long after the coach is gone.
7. Constructive criticism and positive feedback
Sometimes we need to be told the truth. Unfortunately, if we surround ourselves with friends and family who do not want to see our feelings hurt then we may not be getting the whole truth. A good coach will tell you the brutal truth and then help you deal with the situation in a rational and healthy way. A good coach will offer constructive criticism and positive feedback that will help clients overcome their weaknesses and achieve success.
8. Emphasizes strengths
People are a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. We have many strengths that make us unique and valuable to society. Perhaps we are good artists, good musicians, good painters or good poets? Perhaps we are good at business, marketing, or finance? Perhaps we are good with people in medical environments? A good coach knows that the client will be happiest when they are doing things they are good at. That is why a coach will help the client analyze their life, their strengths and weaknesses, and then find ways to help the client emphasize those strengths and nullify those weaknesses.
9. Teaches resilience
Life is messy sometimes. Bad things sometimes do happen. A good coach will not dwell on the bad things that have happened in the past. A good coach looks to the future and to overcoming hardship and suffering. A good coach teaches a sense of resilience and self-reliance to clients that lifts them up and carries them on.
10. Financially invested
Many people wonder why coaches charge for their services. After all, aren’t they just being a good friend to someone. Coaches know that it is important that people pay for the services of a good coach for several reasons: # 1. People pay more attention and work harder when they think they are paying for those services and #2. People often need a ‘stranger’ or someone who does not have preconceived notions about you and your situation in order to get unbiased and unfiltered advice. This stranger is connected to your success most effectively if they are financially invested.
11. Success leads to success
Finally, the last point is that success leads to more success. It is a funny thing, but it is true. Oftentimes it takes a long time for people to achieve success. They should not lose heart. Life is about the journey, not the destination. Therefore a good coach knows that once you have a small victory you are more likely to continue on for more victories. A good coach will help you celebrate the small victories and keep focused on the big prizes in life.


Coaching works, it helps people achieve goals and discover their own capacity to accomplish whatever they want to

Coaching just plain works People hire coaches because it works. Coaches help people improve everything from their golf game to their interview skills, from their management style to their marital relationships. Coaches are not therapists. They are not psychologists. They are not helping you dig up your past. Coaches are focused on the future and helping you to achieve your goals.
Why Coaching works
1. Coaching offers an outside perspective. Coaches are able to give us an unbiased look at what we are doing and provide clear recommendations and suggestions for improvement. They have the ability to look at whatever we are doing and see the effects in a way we cannot see. They can see the big picture and offer a fresh perspective. Coaching gives us the view of ourselves that even our friends or family cannot give because they don’t want to hurt our feelings or because they themselves are blinded to certain realities and preconceived notions. Coaches have seen our situation before. They have the insight, experience, and perspective that we need.

2. Coaching holds us accountable. Coaches provide us an outside voice that can drive us to work harder, longer, and better to realize our dreams. A coach helps us set goals and then helps us achieve those goals. Coaches work with us step-by-step through the process of achievement and provide the encouragement and inspiration we need to win.
3. Coaching focuses on the future. Coaches don’t care about psychoanalyzing our pasts. In fact, coaches don’t really care what we did in the past. They only care about the future. They only care about helping us make the necessary adjustments, improvements, and alignments that we need in order to succeed.

4. Coaching focuses on our strengths. Coaches are not there to beat us down. They are there to help us raise ourselves up. They work with us to find out what we are good at, what we are passionate about, and what opportunities we can create.



Coaching can help just about anyone. As human beings, we live complicated and disconnected lives that could often benefit from hiring a good coach to help you achieve your goals. Take the quiz below to find out if you need a coach.

Do you have goals you are not achieving?
Do you know what you are good at?
Do you know what you are passionate about?
Do you know how you could apply your skills and passions to your work?
Are you frustrated with your current career situation?
Do you need a tangible plan for achieving your goals?
Are you happy with your accomplishments? Would you like to accomplish more?
When you do not achieve your goals, do you make excuses?
Do you have a vision for yourself as successful in achieving your goals?

* If you answered ‘Yes’ to 3 or more of the questions above then you might be a great candidate for coaching services.

For more information or to book a coaching session contact:

Eric Barker
Proactive Futures
61 Lightburn Avenue
Ulverston
LA12 ODL

01229 582842