Coaching Skills for Work and Life

Coaching is a crucial leadership skill for anyone who wants to serve others and bring out their best. At Upbuild, we define coaching as serving as a human mirror to help a person: examine what they’re experiencing and see their life and themselves with lucidity, surface the underlying motivations and insecurities that are affecting their choices, concretize their goals and challenges, and be accountable. Effective leaders apply coaching skills to engage and develop others without needing to “fix” them. Coaching helps us skillfully tap into the potential of the self and others by forming transformational relationships instead of transactional relationships.

In this one-day workshop, you will discover the coaching mindset and practice coaching skills to improve communication and relationships. Participants will learn how to influence and coach from a place of deep curiosity, respect, possibility, and collaboration. You will learn a coaching approach that helps people interrupt patterns of the ego that get in the way of living and leading more fully. The workshop will provide a common language and skill set for coaching that you can apply immediately to create dynamic relationships in personal and professional settings.

Learning Objectives

• Make collaboration and accountability a shared responsibility
• Adopt a coaching mindset that evokes the coachee’s potential
• Distinguish levels of listening and identify what gets in the way of effective listening
• Create conscious relationships that support and motivate individuals and teams
• Understand and practice five foundational coaching skills and their applications
• Cultivate a powerful learning community with other leaders and coaches

Who is this for? Anyone who wants to have a more conscious and active role in developing others and themselves, and building the skills to do so.

What’s the format? Experiential, online format, with a balance of lecture, coaching demonstrations, coaching practice, and discussion about how to apply Upbuild coaching skills in real-world situations. 

What can you expect? High engagement, collaborative learning community, and opportunities to coach and be coached on topics that are deeply meaningful to you.