Research Now Shows that Coach Really Works!

Independent, Fact-Based, Methodologically-Valid,
Research Provides the Proof

• 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 (not unlike the type of coaching that GottaGettaCoach! provides) 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 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 coaching group than the control group

  • Coaching decreased stress more in the coaching group than in the control group

• Wasylyshyn (2003) – Executive Coaching Outcome Study found that

  • 76% of executives reacted significantly positive to working with a coach

  • 88% reported sustainability of behavior change and learning

 Of course individual results can, and do, vary. But this is bona fide academic research cited here, not just opinion or conjecture.

Coaching does work – it's been proven!

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Sources: Grant, A.M. (2009) Workplace, Executive and Life Coaching: An Annotated Bibliography from the Behavioural Science and Business Literature (May 2009), Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney, Australia; Wasylyshyn, Karol M. (2003) Executive Coaching: An Outcome Study, Leadership Development Forum.

* Randomized Controlled Trial: (RCT) A study in which people are allocated at random (by chance alone) to receive one of several clinical interventions. One of these interventions is the standard of comparison or control. The control may be a standard practice, a placebo ("sugar pill"), or no intervention at all. Someone who takes part in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) is called a participant or subject. RCTs seek to measure and compare the outcomes after the participants receive the interventions. Because the outcomes are measured, RCTs are quantitative studies. In sum, RCTs are quantitative, comparative, controlled experiments in which investigators study two or more interventions in a series of individuals who receive them in random order. The RCT is one of the simplest and most powerful tools in clinical research. (Source: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=39532.)

** Quasi-Experiment Field Study is a scientific research method primarily used in the social sciences. "Quasi" means likeness or resembling, so therefore quasi-experiments share characteristics of true experiments which seek interventions or treatments. The key difference in this empirical approach is the lack of random assignment. Another unique element often involved in this experimentation method is use of time series analysis: interrupted and non-interrupted. Experiments designed in this manner are referred to as having quasi-experimental design. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-experimental_design.)