Gravity Learning Style Coaching · Guided Problem Solving
A workshop series builds new skills. Coaching helps make sure participants use them.
Gravity coaching gives participants dedicated 1-on-1 time to apply what they are learning and to work through real workplace challenges.
The Coaching Philosophy
When someone works through a decision themselves, they own it, and they are far more likely to follow through than if they were just told what to do.
Every Gravity coaching session is a journey toward a solution, and every session ends with a specific action assignment.
Why Add Coaching
Coaching is one of the most powerful tools to help people use workshop tools when the situation is real, messy, and high-stakes.
Research strongly supports that coaching produces an “unusually large” effect on individual-level results, with coached employees showing outcomes more than a full standard deviation higher.
When participants learn new skills across multiple sessions, coaching gives them a confidential space to work through the actual problems and decisions they're facing at work.
We recommend three 30-minute coaching sessions across a normal program.
The Research
“Unusually large” effect on individual results.
Coached employees show outcomes more than a full standard deviation higher than those without coaching, one of the strongest effect sizes in the workplace learning literature.
Jones, R. J., Woods, S. A., & Guillaume, Y. R. F. (2016). The effectiveness of workplace coaching: A meta-analysis of learning and performance outcomes from coaching. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(2), 249–277.
The Method
Gravity coaches use the Guided Problem-Solving method, or GPS.
The method is built around a simple idea: human beings are very good at solving problems but very bad at staying on track. What they need is the right structure, questions, and space to think clearly.
In only 30 minutes, participants clarify the problem, focus on outcomes, and make concrete action plans to act on right away.
98.25%
of Gravity Coaching participants said coaching led to them creating actionable steps for a work-related issue.
It works so well because the GPS method gives people the structure they need to think clearly: not open-ended conversation, but a focused 30-minute session with a plan at the end.
Tracking and Reporting
After each session, participants anonymously rate the effectiveness of that session. The results go into the same reporting you receive for the workshop series. The content of coaching sessions stays confidential; we only track results.
96.6%
of Gravity coaching participants said the session was helpful.
98.3%
said it helped them identify actionable next steps.
Participant Voices
“My coach has been instrumental in multiple paradigm changes within my workflow. I strongly encourage anyone considering this training to include the professional coaching aspect; it has been a game changer for me.”
“The first coaching session was so helpful that I developed a habit in two short weeks, which has already paid dividends at work and at home. I also learned the framework to coach myself in the future.”
“I never experienced coaching before and am shocked at how effective it is. Now I have a plan for something I thought my team would just have to live with.”
“My coach guided me to action that I've been needing to take for more than 6 months. I am so very grateful for that. Also incredibly impressed that it happened in 30 minutes.”
Let us talk about what that could look like for your team.