Why you Can't go wrong with a coach
- Waguthi Mahugu

- May 8, 2023
- 3 min read
99% of individuals and companies who hire a coach are “satisfied” or “very satisfied.” 96% would repeat the process. (ICF Global Coaching Client Study)
80% of coaching clients say that they improved their self-esteem or self-confidence thanks to coaching. (ICF Global Coaching Client Study)
73% of coaching clients say that coaching helps them improve their relationships, communication skills, interpersonal skills, work performance, work/life balance, and wellness. (ICF Global Coaching Client Study)
51% of companies with a strong coaching culture have higher revenues than other companies in their industry. (Human Capital Institute)
68% of individuals who hired coaches were able to make back their investment. Financially, the return on investment was 3.44X the original investment. (2009 ICF Global Coaching Study)
86% of companies said that they at least made back their initial coaching investment. 19% said their return on investment was 50x of what they originally invested. 28% had a 10-49x ROI. The median ROI is 7x the investment. (2009 ICF Global Coaching Study)
73% of coaching clients say that coaching helps them improve their relationships, communication skills (72%), interpersonal skills (71%), work performance (70%), work/life balance (67%), and wellness (63%). (2009 ICF Global Coaching Study)
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)
70% of coaching clients improve work performance, communication, and relationships thanks to coaching. (Institute of Coaching)
According to a study, individual and group coaching can help to reduce procrastination and facilitate goal attainment. (Frontiers in Psychology)
Coaching has positive side effects on performance and skills, wellbeing, coping, goal-directed self-regulation, and work attitudes. (The Journal of Positive Psychology)
75% of coaching clients say that the value they get from executive and leadership coaching is “considerably greater” or “far greater” than the money and time they invest. (International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring)
Employees who receive mentoring receive higher compensation, a greater number of promotions, feel more committed and satisfied with their careers, and are more likely to believe that they will advance in their careers than non-mentored employees. (The Journal of Applied Psychology)
Health coaching can help lower healthcare costs. (Medical Care)
62% of coachees have improved their career opportunities through coaching. (2009 ICF Global Coaching Study)
HEALTH STATISITICS
A study of 391 people shows that one-on-one coaching can improve coaching clients’ psychological wellbeing and mitigate threats to mental health in the form of excessive and prolonged stress, low resilience, and poor satisfaction with life. (Journal of Medical Internet Research)
3x more people lose weight when they work with a health coach compared to other methods. (Obesity (Silver Spring))
Wellness coaching can reduce depressive symptoms, perceived stress levels, and improve quality of life and physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and spiritual functioning. (Mayo Clinic)
Health coaching can improve the management of chronic diseases. It can have a positive effect on people’s social life and their behavioral, physiological, and psychological conditions. People improve their weight management, physical and mental health status, and increase their physical activity. (Patient Education and Counseling)
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)




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