Examples of Coaching Goals

Dr. Tim’s clients have been able to achieve objective, measurable results related to their work. But there are other important goals, more difficult to measure, including happiness, well-being, growth, love and connection. New reliable measures of these traits are now available thanks to the work of the researchers in Positive Psychology.

Achieving external, job-related, measurable goals can be an indicator that we are achieving these more important internal goals of well-being, accomplishment, growth, connection and living with purpose. Good coaching works because people not only accomplish specific goals, but sustain their success by also achieving growth on these internal goals.

We tallied external goals set by 11 recent physician-coaching clients. Here’s what each focused their coaching on and, more importantly, where they achieved objective measures of success.