One to One Coaching for Water Leaders

What is this form of coaching?

The IWC offers one-to-one coaching services to emerging and established water leaders around the world to help them become the leaders they want to be. Over a set of three, one-hour, confidential, online coaching sessions, IWC coaches work with water leaders to explore solutions to leadership challenges they are experiencing, including self-leadership challenges.

Additional coaching sessions can be added to the minimum block of three sessions if the coachee and coach agree to do so.

Our leadership coaches have all worked in the water sector, so they are ideally placed to understand your leadership context. This form of coaching primarily helps water leaders to more fully understand the nature of leadership challenges they are facing, examine a broad range of possible options and identify a way forward.

At the IWC, we define ‘water leaders’ as water professionals/practitioners who engage in ‘leadership’ which is a social process of influence that delivers direction, alignment of activities towards that direction, and personal commitment to collective success. From this perspective, water leaders may be ‘emerging’ (e.g. someone making the transition from being an individual specialist to someone who needs to engage in influence without much authority or lead a project team) or ‘established’ (e.g. someone occupying an organisational role that requires significant leadership such as a team leader, ‘middle manager’ or executive leader).

What benefits could you enjoy?

This form of coaching is a powerful leadership development method which can help you to:

• More fully understand the leadership challenges you are facing.
• Clarify the kind of leader you want to become, including your purpose and values.
• Accelerate your growth as a leader by providing a safe and confidential environment that provides challenge, support and accountability.
• Build self-awareness and confidence, including overcoming imposter syndrome.
• Reflect more effectively and accelerate learning.
• Identify and examine a broad range of options to address leadership challenges, including self-leadership challenges.
• Identify a practical course of action to address specific leadership challenges.
• Respond positively to feedback from colleagues (e.g. by helping to process that feedback, reflect positively, identify the key messages, and develop a plan to address them).
• Learn about and practice new leadership skills (e.g. specific communication skills or leadership styles).
• Successfully navigate a leadership transition (e.g. from individual specialist to team leader) or major process of organisational change (e.g. a restructure).
• Access leadership resources / tools to help address specific leadership challenges.

Who is likely to benefit the most?

Emerging and established leaders at any point in their career who are facing significant leadership challenges, including self-leadership challenges, and:

• are uncertain how to address these challenges;
• recognise the value of talking through and reflecting on such challenges in a confidential, psychologically safe environment with a coach (e.g. to fully understand the problem, explore options and identify a pathway forward);
• would like to access leadership-related resources to help overcome leadership challenges;
• currently feel ‘stuck’ in terms of their leadership development or career progression; and/or
• need support, challenge and accountability to help them become the leader they want to be.

What is the cost?

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How do you get started?

• Firstly, let us know that you’re interested in being coached by contacting us here: https://watercentre.org/contact/. There is no obligation to proceed beyond this step.
• Once we hear from you, we will contact you to discuss your situation and learn about your needs.
• If you decide to proceed, we will select a suitable IWC coach in consultation with you. Should prefer to work with one of our coaches, please let us know.
• The IWC will then introduce you to your coach via email, and your coach will liaise with you to schedule your first one hour coaching session which would occur via videoconference.
• Your coach will provide you with information on how you can prepare for your first session.
• The IWC will send you or your organisation an invoice for this service.

Who can you speak to for more information?

An IWC program manager will contact you once you express an interest here: https://watercentre.org/contact/