Define Your Coaching Outcomes

The moment you decide to seek professional coaching, signals that you recognize it is a worthy investment that you should make. After auditioning at least 3 coaches to find your ideal Coach [Choosing Your Ideal Coach], you should next define your coaching outcomes you want to actualize. This will help you measure your results in a more tangible way; which will then motivate you to remain committed to the coaching process. Walking into coaching blind without defined outcomes can be counterproductive to your progress because you may not be able to identify the personal changes that are taking place. Defining your coaching outcomes will provide a set of success criteria to measure if your investment in personal coaching is providing a substantial ROI. Establishing clarity on your desired outcomes will produce sustainable results. 

To ignite your thinking, here are 10 examples of personal coaching outcomes:

1: Increase self love and confidence on a scale from 1 (extremely low) to 5 (unwavering) 

2: Improve mental and emotional wellness to operate in 80/20 optimal wellbeing 

3: Increase overall life satisfaction by 30%

4: Become more self-reliant to reduce codependency 

5: Build greater resilience to increase stress tolerance 

6: Deepen self-awareness to improve ability to remain aligned with internal emotions and intentions

7: Define personal boundaries and learn how to enforce them

8: Discover true personal joys and how to incorporate them into daily life

9: Strengthen communication skills to increase comfortability with expressing needs/wants 

10: Learn strategies to effectively execute work/life balance 

Joy Gem: "I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.” - Diane Von Furstenberg