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.

Who are your instructors?

Mary Kuentz, CPCC, PCC, is a professional coach and trainer specializing in human development and transformation of the workplace. Mary works with leaders at all levels to help them become more responsive to the needs of the world around them. A coach in private practice since 2001, Mary is a faculty member of two accredited coach training organizations, Coaching for Transformation and the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI).

Vipin Goyal, PCC, uses the skills he’s learned as an entrepreneur and an executive to help other leaders realize their best selves. He draws on his wide variety of experiences to help clients leverage their strengths and manage the pitfalls of their egos, develop greater empathy, build cultures in which people feel inspired to work, and lead with intention. Prior to Upbuild, Vipin was the Co-founder & CEO of SideTour, a marketplace of unique, hosted experiences which was acquired by Groupon in 2013. Previously he worked at McKinsey & Company as well as the international businesses of MTV Networks. He has an AB in Economics and an MBA from Harvard.

When and where? Next workshop date to be announced

What’s the investment?

Questions? Reach out to team@upbuild.com.

For our longer (6-month) and more comprehensive Upbuild Coaching Training, you can find more information here.

Testimonials

“Upbuild’s coaching course is for anyone who’s interested in being a better coach, manager, leader, partner, or listener. What struck me was the actionable takeaways that I’ve been utilizing every day since as well as the amazing community that Upbuild brought together. The magic of Upbuild is its ability to create a space where strangers can get together and have profound and moving conversations as though they were lifelong friends and really cut to the core of the things that matter most.”

— NOAH ISAACS, CEO BOWERY VALUATION

“I gained a lot from the coaching course with Upbuild. The team offered us critical insights to help us understand the difference between our egos and our true selves. We were able to observe live coaching demos, practice the coaching techniques in 1:1 sessions, and share our reflections. I appreciated hearing the various perspectives from fellow participants, and I’m still ruminating on the key themes and takeaways from the session. It reinforced my commitment to participating in further coaching training with Upbuild.”

— KALPANA BHANDARKAR, BOARD MEMBER + CHAIR OF PUBLIC POLICY COMMITTEE AT SCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY