Upbuild Coaching Bits: How We Define Coaching

At Upbuild, we define coaching as…

Serving as a human mirror to help clients:

• Examine what they are experiencing to see their lives and themselves with lucidity, lending our own insights to the process

• Surface the underlying motivations and insecurities that are affecting their choices so that they understand why they’re doing what they’re doing, and can make more intentional decisions

• Concretize their goals and challenges (which will evolve as they grow) and break them down into practical, step-by-step action

• Be accountable to themselves

Clients often wonder, is coaching for personal or professional matters? At the end of the day, we’re all human beings, whether at work or at home, and the same aspirations and insecurities drive us in different ways and in different environments. What we want to look at is more fundamental and universal to who we are and how we show up. Working on a challenge in the office often has great bearing on our personal relationships and vice versa. We welcome getting to know people holistically, and find that this integrated approach lends greater transformative power to the work.

Coaching application: During your sessions this week, imagine yourself as a “human mirror.” Notice what changes about your presence when you do this.

Life application: Explore how the same aspirations and insecurities that drive you at work also drive you at home. How might working on one of the specific challenges you are experiencing in your professional life help you in your personal life?

Relevant Upbuild content:

• [Article] This Is Your Damn Life

• [Article] Our Unilateral Contracts