Coaching Conversations for Professionals
Kindly note that there will be a lot of work done in pairs in this session. Please ensure you can attend the full session before registering, and that you will have access to a quiet space where you can comfortably focus, talk, and listen.
Coaching Conversations for Professionals
In this hands-on session, you will learn practical coaching skills that you can use in your day to day work. You will learn how to create a designed alliance, which is a group agreement on how you want to be and work together. You will also learn about the three levels of listening and asking powerful questions. You will also learn the difference between coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring as well as collectively brainstorm practical places to use coaching skills right away.
What You will Learn
- How to create a designed alliance
- 3 levels of listening
- Asking powerful questions
- The differences between coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring
How You will Learn
- Experiential, hands-on learning
- Active practice in pair coaching-style conversations in breakout rooms
- Facilitated debrief to help land the learning in a large group
Audience – Professionals (February 26)
This session is geared towards Professionals and individual contributors, such as coordinators and specialists, who would like to incorporate coaching skills into their conversations will teammates, colleagues, and leadership.
Participant Expectations for the Live Zoom Sessions
1. To attend the full session (we’ll be spending time in pairs in breakout rooms so late arrivals, early exits, and popping out partway through will negatively impact the pair experience)
2. To participate using audio and video (we appreciate that there are sometimes technical issues, but please be in a space where you can at least use audio. If that doesn’t work for you, please sign up for the recorded version)
3. To actively participate in the breakout room conversations, group activities, and personal reflection exercises
4. Be open and engaged with the content of the session, even if it doesn’t immediately resonate with you. We encourage you to try things out
5. To be professional, kind, and courteous to fellow participants and practice patience, confidentiality, and inclusivity
About Your Facilitators
Tara Robertson is a leadership coach and a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant. As a leadership coach, she helps underrepresented leaders in corporate careers go from underestimated and overworked to unapologetic and wildly successful.
She is an intersectional feminist who uses data and research to advocate for equality and inclusion. She brings nearly 15 years experience leading change in open source technology communities and corporate spaces, including 3 years leading Diversity and Inclusion at Mozilla. As a consultant she partners with senior leaders to help drive systemic change.
In her former lifetime she was an academic librarian and has a Masters of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia.
Tina-Marie Meyer is a personal growth and relationship coach, and she brings over two decades of professional experience and advanced level training to her career. She became a Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) Coach in 2004 and a CTI faculty member and course leader in 2020. She also teaches coaching skills to open science leaders at NASA, NOAA Fisheries and the California Environmental Protection Agency.
Providing a practical and down-to-earth approach, Tina-Marie encourages her clients to nurture and strengthen the relationship, first, with themselves and, in turn, their loved ones, co-workers, and community.
About Your Host
AAPS is the labour relations organization that represents the Management and Professional Staff group to their employer UBC. AAPS is a separate organization from UBC, and your conversations with us are confidential. We offer members professional labour relations advice that is in your best interest as an employee. We encourage you to get to know AAPS and your Collective Agreement and let us know if you have any questions or if we can help.
The AAPS Professional Development Program is designed and hosted by AAPS for our members. We offer a variety of topics on management, leadership, interpersonal skills, workplace skills, as well as personal and social development. The AAPS PD Program is designed in consultation with the AAPS Board of Directors and staff. Member Services Officer Sarah Muff is the program’s architect and manager. She staffs the PD events. If you have ideas or feedback, please email Sarah at sarah.muff@ubc.ca.
Registration Information
The AAPS Professional Development program is designed for and offered exclusively to AAPS members at no cost. AAPS members can register to attend one of the live Zoom sessions or access the recorded version. Before registering, please consider your schedule and your ability to actively participate.
The live Zoom sessions require you to use audio, and video is strongly encouraged as well. You will be working in pairs so your presence, focus, and a quiet space to talk and listen are important for the structure of this session.
If you have accessibility requirements or questions, please email sarah.muff@ubc.ca. Zoom auto-captions are always enabled for our sessions. If you need a live transcriber, interpretation, or other specific audio or visual supports, please let us know in advance.
Live Zooms
Recorded Version
The recorded version of this session will be available after February 28, 2025. You can register to receive a link to the recording as well as access other recorded versions of AAPS PD sessions on our website.