Thinking of working with a coach? Give group coaching some serious thought. Here’s why.

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Groups have a unique power to transform people.

If you have ever worked with a coach — or even thought about it — it is worth considering group coaching.

Generally, there are many ways to think about coaching as a method of self improvement. Overall, people engage a coach when they want someone to help them work on themselves, their relationships, their career, their lives. It can involve goal setting; it can involve self exploration; it can involve reframing and getting fresh perspective. You identify how you want to be in the future and then move towards it.

Coaching work can certainly be done in a one-on-one setting (which could be considered ‘the norm’), but it can also be done in a group environment, as it the case with therapy and group therapy. While working directly with someone gets all the focus on you, there is a fantastic case to be made for group coaching.

Group coaching is good bang for the buck

First and foremost, group coaching will cost you less money (let’s keep it real and pragmatic, right?). Additionally, you spend more overall time with the coach/in a coaching setting (a typical coaching session is an hour, and group coaching usually runs for 90 minutes). Yes, this time is…