Coaching: A Process of Change

Coaching is, at its core, a change process. Its focus is on helping people to change, to create change, and to adapt to change. As coaches then, we can benefit enormously from the scientific thinking on what enables or hinders our human capacity for change, including:

• How people’s emotional agility and related emotional skills meaningfully impact outcomes.
• The usefulness - and fallibility - of our own levels of self-awareness and insight. (See the research article this month.)
• Why a specific change may not happen even if it is the express reason that the client seeks out coaching services. 

This month’s recommended book, Insight, by Tasha Eurich provides a unique perspective on the change theme, as does Brian Underhill's webinar Yes, You Can (and MUST) Measure the Results of Executive Coaching. Come October, our 10th Annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference with its extraordinary line-up of speakers including Susan Cain, Marshall Goldsmith and James Prochaska, will further explore this important conversation.

We look forward to this continued change journey with you.

With warmth,

Susan David, PhD Co-Founder and Co-Director