I personally have benefitted massively from coaching. E.g. I recently wrote this about one of my coaches:
“Paul is a truly excellent coach. I had 40 sessions with him over the course of 2 years. In these, I made transformational progress on topics as broad as motivation/procrastination, communication/teamwork/leadership, time and project management, and decision-making. Paul’s science-based and no-bullshit approach aims at long-term growth, not only fixing this week’s issues.”
Coaching increased my productivity a lot, but also helped me improve a lot in other areas, such as in cultivating a growth mindset and trust in myself. It’s hard to put numbers on this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if coaching (combined with “personal development” more broadly) increased my (expected) lifetime impact by 5x or so. Counting only the improvements in “efficiency/productivity” narrowly understood (roughly defined as “how well/fast can you do a given task + how long/regular can you work”), I’d say I probably became 2x as productive.
Because coaching was so extremely useful for me, I’m passionate about this topic and I’d be a massive fan of great (!) coaching being available to many people. And I’d also want to encourage many to try out coaching, probably with at least 2 different coaches.
I have also worked with coaches where the experience was merely good, in the realm of “coaching sessions tend to make my next week 10-20% more productive”. That is nice, of course, but far away from how useful great coaching can be.
Jan’s enthusiasm triggered me to start with coaching. I second deeper changes as the truly important ones to my personal coaching journey. I started coaching without having particular “issues” but quickly realized how much space between current me and best-possible me there is. Among other things ,coaching helped me to get in the habit of deliberate practice on minimizing this space. Nowadays I regularly do self-coaching sessions that have many elements of the previous “two brain” coaching sessions.
Thanks for sharing Jan. I knew that coaching had an exceptional impact on you but this description puts it in a completely new light: 5x increase in your (expected) lifetime impact and 2x in productivity indicates an exceptional cost-effective intervention considering that you (as far as I know) perhaps invested around 500-1000 hours in total on this (when including personal development more broadly).
I personally have benefitted massively from coaching. E.g. I recently wrote this about one of my coaches:
“Paul is a truly excellent coach. I had 40 sessions with him over the course of 2 years. In these, I made transformational progress on topics as broad as motivation/procrastination, communication/teamwork/leadership, time and project management, and decision-making. Paul’s science-based and no-bullshit approach aims at long-term growth, not only fixing this week’s issues.”
Coaching increased my productivity a lot, but also helped me improve a lot in other areas, such as in cultivating a growth mindset and trust in myself. It’s hard to put numbers on this, but I wouldn’t be surprised if coaching (combined with “personal development” more broadly) increased my (expected) lifetime impact by 5x or so. Counting only the improvements in “efficiency/productivity” narrowly understood (roughly defined as “how well/fast can you do a given task + how long/regular can you work”), I’d say I probably became 2x as productive.
Because coaching was so extremely useful for me, I’m passionate about this topic and I’d be a massive fan of great (!) coaching being available to many people. And I’d also want to encourage many to try out coaching, probably with at least 2 different coaches.
I have also worked with coaches where the experience was merely good, in the realm of “coaching sessions tend to make my next week 10-20% more productive”. That is nice, of course, but far away from how useful great coaching can be.
Jan’s enthusiasm triggered me to start with coaching. I second deeper changes as the truly important ones to my personal coaching journey. I started coaching without having particular “issues” but quickly realized how much space between current me and best-possible me there is. Among other things ,coaching helped me to get in the habit of deliberate practice on minimizing this space. Nowadays I regularly do self-coaching sessions that have many elements of the previous “two brain” coaching sessions.
Thanks for sharing this Max!
Thanks for sharing Jan. I knew that coaching had an exceptional impact on you but this description puts it in a completely new light: 5x increase in your (expected) lifetime impact and 2x in productivity indicates an exceptional cost-effective intervention considering that you (as far as I know) perhaps invested around 500-1000 hours in total on this (when including personal development more broadly).
Super inspiring—thanks for sharing!