How much time are you wasting on coaching?

More expectations. More deliverables. More challenges. The one thing leaders don’t have more of? Time.

Many companies are looking to coaching to give leaders a leg up on the push and pull of an ever-changing workplace. Accounting for more than $14 billion in business spending each year, coaching has been proven to help boost employee retention, job satisfaction, productivity, and revenue. Investing time and money in an approach that may not deliver tangible improvements isn’t an option. Finding a solution that’s fast, backed by science, and measurable is essential to creating change that actually sticks.

More Isn’t Always Better.

We could all do with a little more sleep and probably a little more time on the weekends, but when it comes to coaching that’s not always the case. Many traditional coaching journeys spend almost too much time focusing on problems and promoting long periods of self-reflection before starting the work of change. But once it’s time to implement that learning to the job, many participants often struggle to apply it to their every day.

The Science Behind It.

A large meta-analysis (Theeboom et al., 2014) looked at the impact of numerous coaching sessions. They found the greatest impact on performance and work attitudes happened in the first 5 sessions. Having sessions with a firmer focus on what you want to get out of coaching can result in more action-oriented change in real-time and leaves less space for distractions that could take away from the ultimate goal of real change

Most traditional coaching solutions fail to narrow the focus of the coaching session, develop clear goals at the start, or clarify what will be achieved in that time despite the overwhelming evidence that a goal-focused coaching approach helps participants achieve their goals better, and faster (Grant & O’Connor, 2010; Grant, 2014).

Not focusing on the evidence of ‘what works’ is why some coaching leads to huge changes in performance and behavior, while some leads to little or no significant change at all.

Precision Coaching

Backed by decades of behavioral science research, MindGym’s Precision Coaching methodology can generate sustained behavior change in as few as four 45-minute sessions. With a laser focus on change, Precision Coaching helps deliver individual behavior change at scale by identifying clear goals from the outset, building creative ways to achieve them, and equipping organizations with science-backed techniques to continue sustainable behavior change.

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