• Increase the range, flexibility and effectiveness of the coachee's behavioral repertoire.

• Increase the coachee's capacity to manage an organization in terms of planning, staffing, leading, controlling, cognitive complexity, decision making, tasks, jobs and roles.

• Improve the coachee's psychological and social competencies.

• Increase understanding through psychological and social awareness.

• Increase tolerance of ambiguity.

• Increase tolerance and range of emotional responses.

• Increase flexibility and develop the ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships within a diverse workforce.

• Increase the coachee's awareness on various components of psycho-social and organizational domains of human behavior.

• Promote skills to manage emotions and conflicts.

• Improve the coachee's capacity to learn and grow.

• Improve the coachee's stress management skills and stress hardiness.

• Increase the coachee's ability to manage self and others in conditions of environmental and organizational turbulence, crisis and conflict.

• Improve the coachee's ability to manage his / her career and to advance professionally.

• Improve the coachee's ability to manage the tensions between organizational, family, community, industry and personal needs and demands.

Source: Richard R. Kilburg and Richard C. Diedrich, The Wisdom of Coaching - Essential Papers in Consulting Psychology for a World of Change, American Psychological Association, 2007