Studies Showing the Effectiveness of Coaching
Studies Show Success through Coaching
Independent, Peer-Reviewed Studies done on Coaching revealed the following impressive results:
- Grant, Frith, & Burton (2009) – Randomized Controlled Trial* (RCT) evaluating executives provided with 360-degree feedback and just four coaching sessions for over a ten week period proved that:
– Coaching enhanced goal attainment
– Coaching enhanced resilience
– Coaching enhanced workplace well-being
– Coaching reduced depression
– Coaching reduced stress
– Coaching helped participants deal with organizational change
- Spence, Cavanagh, & Grant (2008) – RCT evaluating adults taking part in mindfulness-based health coaching over eight weeks proved that:
– Coaching enabled greater goal attainment than using an educative/directive format
- Duijts, Kant, van den Brandt & Swaen (2007) – RCT assessing the effectiveness of a preventive coaching program on sickness and absenteeism due to psychosocial health complaints concluded that:
– Coaching significant improvements in health
– Coaching significant improvements in life satisfaction
– Coaching significant improvements in burnout
– Coaching significant improvements in psychological wellbeing
- Spence & Grant (2007) – RCT of adults participating in a Solution Focused/Cognitive Behavioral (SF/CB) life coaching program proved that:
– Professional coaching was significantly more effective than peer coaching in increasing goal commitment
– Professional coaching was significantly more effective than peer coaching in goal attainment
– Professional coaching was significantly more effective than peer coaching in environmental mastery
- Green, Grant & Rynsaardt (2007) – RCT in which female high school students took part in SF/CB life coaching program for 10 individual coaching sessions over 2 school terms, concluded that:
– Coaching increased cognitive hardiness
– Coaching increased mental health
– Coaching increased hope
- Green, Oades & Grant (2006) – RCT of adults taking part in SF/CB life coaching program proved that:
– Coaching increased goal attainment
– Coaching increased well-being
– Coaching increased hope
– and that a 30-week follow-up found that those gains were maintained
- Evers, Brouwers & Tomic (2006) – Quasi-Experimental Field Study** (QEFS) of managers of the federal government using a coaching group and a control concluded that:
– Coaching increased outcome expectancies
– Coaching increased self-efficacy
- Gyllensten & Palmer (2005) – QEFS of participants from a UK finance organization concluded that
– Coaching decreased anxiety more in the group being coached than the control group
– Coaching decreased stress more in the group being coached than in the control group
Coaching works – its results have been measured and proven! Watch this video to find out about studies showing effects of success through balance.
Read what the media says about coaching and find out more about our coaching programs.
 | I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Success Reboot Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit You First-hand! |
|---|
