Coaching is a partnership between coach and client, in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize his or her personal and professional potential. An effective coach is a confidential ally who can work with a client to develop deep insights into strengths and weaknesses, and then take this self-awareness to the next level of consistent and meaningful action.

This can lead to striking results in personal and professional relationships, leadership and management skills, and improved outcomes for the organization as well. A good coach drives a client toward excellence and fulfillment.

Organizations may hire a coach to work with key individuals in the company, or individuals may seek a coach for private coaching.

• Enhancing overall leadership performance
• Transitioning to a new manager role, or transitioning from manager to leader
• Fostering effective conflict resolution and communication skills
• Goal-setting and time management
• Balancing multiple commitments and priorities
• Personal fulfillment

Coaching focuses on action in the present toward a new future, emphasizing measurable goals and outcomes. Coaches work to propel a client to a new level of competence and fulfillment, with less emphasis on the past than, for example, traditional therapy.

Coaching is unlike consulting. Consultants have technical expertise in particular subject matter. Coaches, by contrast, are experts in people and personal change. Coaches draw upon a knowledge of research and methodologies in individual psychology, management and leadership, and these skills are applicable across field and industry.

Personal Leadership for Individual Clients

Watershed Coaching’s clients include not just organizations, but also individuals looking for personal and professional growth. 

Personal Leadership is a concept of self-development and fulfillment, of deliberately choosing the life you want rather than letting it “happen to you”—a life by default. 

These services may be particularly effective for individuals seeking to:

• Change careers
• Become a more effective manager or more powerful leader
• Take on new roles or commitments
• Navigate through a period of transition
• Reinvigorate passion for life, to live powerfully with more meaning and satisfaction

Watershed Coaching creates new opportunities, leading to new successes. A process of careful and systematic questioning and exploration will help you create a new framework for exploring possibility and furthering your life goals and potential.