Today coaching clients come from all walks of life, and the reasons for hiring a coach are as numerous as the clients who hire them. Here are some of the most common reasons clients seek the expert assistance of a coach:
- To change their life in a positive, meaningful way
- To develop a more fulfilling, more purposeful life
- To help them set better, more effective goals
- To keep them focused on and toward their desired outcomes (keeps them from getting sidetracked)
- To challenge them to stretch themselves further
- To raise the bar and continue accelerating their success
- To access additional tools, resources, ideas, and brainstorming to maximize their effectiveness
- To incorporate a structured, guided approach to goal achievement into their lives
- To help them define what success really means to them and identify what they want out of life
- To reach a particular goal or complete a specific project
- To become more of their authentic selves and reorient their lives to be more meaningful and fulfilling
- To receive open, direct, honest feedback that is objective and constructive
- To identify and maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses
- To achieve more balance between work/career and the rest of their life
- To develop a support system of guidance and encouragement; to have a mentor
- To help them identify new skills and attitudes required for success and to learn those skills and develop those attitudes
- To cope with rapid change
