COACHING
Get to know and understand yourself more deeply through an intimate process of transformation
Our coaching approach focuses on bringing to light the underlying motivations and insecurities that affect your every action and relationship so that you gain a better understanding of why you are doing what you are doing and the impact it's having.
How We Define Coaching at Upbuild
Serving as a human mirror to help you:
Examine what you are experiencing and see your life and your self with lucidity, lending our own insights to the process.
Surface the underlying motivations and insecurities that are affecting your relationships.
Concretize your goals and challenges and break them down into practical, step-by-step action.
Be accountable to yourself.
Through deeper inquiry, your experiences will strike you in new ways and create opportunities for lasting growth.
Personal vs. Professional
People often wonder, should I mix speaking about work with speaking about my personal life in our sessions? At the end of the day, you’re a human being, whether at work or at home. The same aspirations and insecurities drive us in different forms in our different environments. What we want to look at is more fundamental to who we are and how we show up. Therefore, all that you bring to the table, personally or from your work-life is relevant. Working on a challenge in the office often has great bearing on our personal relationships and vice versa. We welcome getting to know you holistically, and find that this integrated approach lends greater transformative power to the work.
The Ego and The Self
The deepest coaching focuses on the distinction between the ego and the self. We want to be able to recognize the ego so that we can be our true self. We define the ego as the identity of who we think we should be. We define the self as who we actually are deep down. Coaching can lead to this uncovering of who we are and living as we are.
What Happens in a Session
We provide a safe space for dynamic exploration, act as a mirror, share in struggles, bounce off ideas, help in prioritization, and lend our own insights, as we co-create a plan of action that we will hold you accountable to achieve. We utilize our own Upbuild content, the incisive Enneagram personality typology, our own personal experiences, practices of mindfulness, and other frameworks.
One of the most helpful aspects of coaching is to evaluate our habits and to build new ones that better serve us. If there’s something you want to be better at doing or there’s something you feel will help you grow personally, we’ll craft small goals to help you move in that direction and keep progressing. We will also help you to navigate conversations and relationships as you bring them into the discussion.
You can share or ask us anything that comes to you. Our time speaking is your space to process experiences together with someone deeply invested in you. We will make suggestions when we feel strongly that this will be a beneficial direction or approach
Each coaching session is 55 minutes long and will be used to discuss any immediate, pressing issues as well as the longer-term priorities. We’ll end each session with actionable steps and/or personal exercises to work on prior to the next session. Sessions are designed to build on each other to ensure forward movement and accountability.
The conversations will be free-flowing and meant to create a safe space for honest introspection.
Consider coaching whether you are…
A leader who is looking to inspire your team
A manager looking to gain greater trust with your team
Co-founders trying to improve your relationships with each other
An executive who wants to improve your communication with your board
A new manager trying to figure out what it truly means to be a leader
A company leader trying to discover what it looks like for you to be able to show up as your best and truest self in the workplace.
The only requirement is that are willing to get curious about your inner self in order to find out who you truly are. The goal of our coaching process is for you to gain greater clarity on what you have to do, why you have to do it, and how to execute decisively while communicating effectively, even at times of extraordinary uncertainty.
In the process, your organization can gain even greater trust in your leadership.
360 Degree Reviews
As part of our coaching process, we offer 360 Degree Reviews
“360s” are a valuable way to get solid feedback from your team, peers, and any other stakeholders within your organization. It helps you make course corrections in your leadership that support your growth and the growth of your organization. The compiled feedback allows you to see things that are working, not working, and things that need to change. Our process culminates to help you identify viable action steps to address what’s going on in the organization.
Interested in coaching?
“Over the past two years, Vipin has served as indispensable emotional and practical support for me and my organization, Context Travel. His support has extended beyond CEO coaching, to coaching other members of our leadership team, helping us define our core values & mission, and supporting teaching the Enneagram framework within our operating team. What’s so rare about Vipin’s approach is his ability to fuse the softer aspects of leadership with the battle-hardened experience of being a founder & CEO himself - setting objectives, managing a board of directors, raising capital. This combination has made him entirely indispensable on my CEO journey. I consider Vipin a friend and a close insider in my life - a ‘first phone call’ when I need support. I hope to continue working with him for years to come.”
— EVAN FRANK, CEO, CONTEXT TRAVEL