Why Companies Invest in Professional Development Coaching
Professional development coaching offers companies a path for empowering employees and investing in their growth. One of the biggest problems that we are seeing today is high employee turnover. In part spurred on by the COVID-19 pandemic, employees are looking for more out of their work than just money to pay the bills.
What matters most to your team, and how are you making strides to ensure that they remain happy and engaged with your company? In this blog, we explore the benefits of adopting professional development coaching into your organization, and how at Boon Health, we take coaching one step further.
What is Professional Development Coaching?
While there are many varieties of professional development coaching, it is generally defined as a program between a coach and an employee to discuss growth in both work and life.
Professional development coaching is not the same as traditional therapy, although there is some overlap. Therapy is often oriented most towards the present and the past, and can include things like counseling, conflict resolution, dealing with trauma, and recontextualizing how we perceive events. In short, therapy is often seen as a “fix” – how can I achieve a result by changing how I see a problem?
Professional development coaching is oriented towards the future, largely (though not entirely) in the context of one’s career trajectory. It can take many different forms, such as helping a person discover opportunities that excite them in their field, overcoming communication gaps, work-life balance, and choosing areas in which they can build upon their skills and capabilities. If traditional therapy is about fixing a problem, professional development focuses on uncovering possibilities.
4 Key Benefits of Professional Development Coaching
Resilience
Resilience is defined as the capacity to recover quickly from a difficult situation. It includes stress tolerance, adaptability, and the ability to press on under challenging circumstances. At Boon Health, we see resilience as one of the largest indicators of an employee’s long-term success, as it shows the propensity to manage burnout as well as improving overall life and job satisfaction. Professional development coaching serves to bolster resilience by navigating hard conversations around work that normally can’t be addressed in the workplace, and offer avenues to open the topic at work.
Employee Engagement
An engaged employee is a thoughtful employee who is driven by the mission and values of an organization, and actively seeks to make change that matters to them. Professional development coaching allows employees to uncover potential paths that matter to them within an organization, improving their engagement and keeping them invested in a company’s interests as it aligns with their own.
Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is critical for the long-term success of any given employee, as managing this balance helps reduce turnover and burnout. Through professional development coaching, employees can examine boundaries and limitations that are essential for driving their long-term success.
Improved Mental Wellness
Mental wellness is a metric that gauges the stability and contentedness of a given employee. While it can be difficult to quantify, mental wellness can make all the difference between a happy and successful workplace versus and a toxic company culture.
Although some professional development coaching focuses more on the workplace, Boon Health centers mental wellness as essential to its practice. With an emphasis on purpose, satisfaction, and connection, we believe mental wellness is foundational to building a solid company culture.
Boon Health’s Wellness Approach to Professional Development Coaching
At Boon Health, we see the relationship between professional development coaching a bit differently. For us, coaching isn’t just about work or life, but how the two interrelate with each other. While it is structured around professional development coaching, our wellness coaching incorporates aspects of mental wellness into our program.
Boon Health offers one-on-one coaching oriented around resilience, productivity, and engagement. It shows to your employees that you prioritize their personal and professional growth, and are an advocate for change that focuses on the individual challenges and stresses of employees. After just six sessions, adopting Boon Health has been shown to:
· Decrease employee turnover by 50%
· Increase employee resilience by 20%
· 80% of users indicated equal or increased worker productivity
· 88% of users indicated equal or improved worker satisfaction.
Are you ready to see the benefits of mental well-being in your workplace? Contact us today to learn more about our services.
