Become a Coach

If your goal is to:

• practice a Coach Approach in your workplace
• become an Accredited Coach
• become a UBC Associate Coach with UBC’s 1-on-1 Professional Coaching Services
• explore Peer or Mentor coaching (coming soon)

… Coaching @ UBC can connect you to the right resources!

1. Getting Started

Learn a Coach Approach

A Coach Approach can be as simple as asking a question to encourage a staff member to think through a task, rather than telling them how it should be done.  In an effort to embed this inquiry-based approach in our organization, we are looking to our Accredited Coaches and the hundreds of staff and faculty who have participated in our Coaching workshops to name and acknowledge a Coach Approach when they see it used in the workplace.

MOST Learning & Development workshops

• Coaching Out of the Box
• ABCs of Coaching
• Coaching Clinic
• Appreciative Inquiry
• Appreciative Leadership Development Program
• InPowering- Making Sense of your Talents and Strengths

For more information on learning and development in coaching please see Coaching in Action.

Practice a Coach Approach

The Practicum Program is component of all Coaching workshops and is intended to help you integrate your learning by providing you the opportunity to practice your new skills in a safe environment.  The Coach leading your workshop will review the program and your Practicum options with you.

Each workshop will have a different Practicum approach, which may include:

• Coaching Triangles
• 1-on-1 Coaching Services

2. Become a Accredited Coach

We have been building our coaching expertise at UBC since we established Coaching Services in 2002. We currently have 40 Accredited Coaches on our roster providing FREE 1-on-1 Professional Coaching Services to over one hundred UBC staff and faculty each year.  Whether you are just “getting started”, have years of non-accredited coaching experience, or are a fully Accredited Coach, here are developmental opportunities you can pursue:

• Coaching Internship Program for UBC Staff and Faculty
• Accredited Coaching Programs
• “Personal Portfolio” credentialing through Professional Associations
• Further professional development for Accredited Coaches

3. Become a UBC Coach

Join our UBC Community of Accredited Coaches. Click here for Application Process