Enhance your experience as a UBC employee through coaching. Grow professionally and personally through the coaching opportunities available.
Coaching accelerates results and is a driver for organizational excellence. The Focus on People 2025 framework identifies Coaching as an integral component in supporting your career growth. Coaching Services offers:
- One-on-one coaching
- Professional development opportunities to be more coach-like in your conversations
- Opportunities to become a certified coach
One-on-one Coaching
Thanks to a dedicated community of over 100 trained and certified coaches, UBC is able to offer a limited number of one-on-one coaching sessions as a benefit (free) to all regular paid faculty and staff.
The goal of Coaching at UBC is to help you develop and enhance your experience at UBC.
Focus and advance your personal or professional goals and development through coaching. Explore ideas and engage in candid dialogue in a confidential setting. People who engage in coaching report enhanced results in achieving goals, productivity, resilience, professional growth and improved relationships.
Register for Coaching with a Certified Coach
If you're a regular paid faculty or staff, you can register for coaching. To register, access the portal below with your campus-wide login (CWL). Once you are in the portal, create an account. Then, review coach biographies to select your top choices (up to 3), with whom you will set up interviews to determine the best fit.
Access the UBC Coaching portal
Please note: From May 15 to 31, the UBC Coaching Portal will have limited functionality and will be unable to accept coaching requests or other tasks. For urgent support finding a coach during this period, please contact coaching@hr.ubc.ca or 604-822-3351.
About the Coaching Sessions
All our coaches are professionally trained and hold credentials from the International Coaching Federation. Typically, coaching engagements are for up to 6 sessions that are 45-60 minutes long and take place about every 2-3 weeks. These sessions are confidential.
The topics you can bring to these sessions are broad, and may include:
- Leading others
- Leading teams
- Career planning
- Addressing a dilemma you're facing
- Strategy and planning
- Change and transition
- Resiliency
Learn and practice a coach approach
It can be as simple as asking a question to encourage thinking, rather than directing or advising how a task should be done. In an effort to embed this inquiry-based approach at UBC, Coaching Services is developing course offerings in informational and fundamental coaching skills, soon to be available in the Workplace Learning Ecosystem.
Become a certified coach
UBC has built an expertise in coaching over the years since the program was established in 2003. We have over 100 certified coaches on our roster who provide professional one-on-one, group, and team coaching to over 200 faculty and staff each year.
Whether you are just getting started, have years of non-accredited coaching experience, or are a fully certified coach, below are some developmental opportunities you can pursue:
Become a UBC Associate Coach
Expressions of Interest to become a UBC Associate Coach are currently closed.
Questions
For questions about any coaching services, please contact coaching@hr.ubc.ca.