You may have seen my recent LinkedIn post about this topic – it’s something I care deeply about.

Coaches are under concerning amounts of pressure to get better at supporting their clients’ well-being. It’s a demand that’s hard to disagree with when…

• 1 in 4 leaders are struggling
• We’ve seen a 27% yearly average decline in leaders’ well-being since 2020
• 86% of executives are personally keen for better well-being support from their organisations.

These stats from GLWS and Deloitte Insights highlight a real and pressing need – that unacceptably high wellbeing costs are now being paid by too many of those who are occupying leadership roles.

If you’re a coach, how often have you found your clients’ fatigue, emotional dysregulation, stress or mental energy is compromising their progress, growth or leadership effectiveness?

It’s like driving with the brakes on, don’t you think?

These days, most coaching accreditation programs usually include some training in ‘mental health literacy’ and ‘how to lead for psychosocial health’. While this represents essential progress, it’s not enough to guarantee coaches the know-how or techniques to understand and support their clients’ well-being to the extent that is required and expected.

Does this resonate? Ever feel it’s an impossible ask? If so, that’s hardly surprising and you are far from alone!

Conventional coaching methods—100% talk-based interventions—are insufficient to address clients’ personal well-being needs. Even for registered psychologists and coaches with exceptional communication skills, decoding the euphemisms, mixed messages, and linguistic imprecision commonly found in such personal conversations is challenging. Doing so within the typical time constraints and competing priorities of a coaching session further compounds the guesswork, errors and misunderstandings—with potential for serious repercussions.

Are you looking for ways to help you/your clients expedite a better understanding of what’s going on with their well-being , how it’s impacting them and how to achieve positive sustainable practical changes?

Just as a thorough medical diagnosis precedes effective treatment, or a training needs analysis precedes program development, using the right well-being diagnostic provides coaches and their executive clients with a clear and accelerated path forward for better coaching, well-being and performance outcomes.

We strongly advocate for the use of diagnostics to achieve more effective and accelerated Coaching outcomes. A diagnostic enables a clear path forward and eliminates guesswork. And as we all know, what gets measured, matters.

Our global community of Accredited Practitioners use the GLWS— a uniquely comprehensive, validated psychometric well-being measure to precisely identify their clients’ well-being needs and inform their coaching strategies accordingly.

If GLWS accreditation is on your radar, here are two things you can do right now to help you decide if it’s the right time:

1. Listen to my conversation with Claudia Day from the Association for Coaching where we discuss  integrating well-being into coaching practice. You can watch a quick snippet here.

2. Book a 20-minute exploratory call. We’d love to answer any questions you might have and discuss how GLWS could fit into your coaching or consulting work. You can book a call with us right here.

Or, if you’re ready to dive in, you can reserve your seat for our most popular GLWS Accreditation – the Virtual Workshop:

As always, if you have any queries or if we can assist you, please do get in touch.

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