The right expertise for the right assignment
Each assignment requires its own combination of experience, perspective and capability. The match should therefore start with the client’s situation and the development need at the centre.
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Knowledge, experience and judgement that strengthen development.
UpMe works selectively with formally trained coaches who combine professional development expertise with relevant role and business experience, together with strong advisory capability.
Shared quality. Professional responsibility. Room for individual judgement and craft.
How we see the collaborationA different kind of setting
Professional coaching is the foundation. Relevant experience makes it stronger.
UpMe is built on the belief that a professional development conversation becomes more relevant when the programme leader also understands the reality in which the client operates.
Experience should not be used to provide ready-made answers. It should help the programme leader understand more quickly, listen for what actually matters, ask sharper questions and challenge at a level that feels credible to the client.
That is why UpMe wants to work with programme leaders who can combine professional development work with relevant experience, sound judgement and respect for a shared quality standard.
The foundation for collaboration
Relevant coach training is the foundation. The overall fit determines the match.
UpMe needs to be able to stand behind both the quality of the development work and the programme leader who meets the client. The collaboration therefore rests on relevant training, experience, sound judgement and a professional way of working.
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Coach training and development expertise
Documented professional coach training, together with experience of qualified development work with leaders and key people.
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Relevant business and subject experience
Experience that provides credible understanding of the environment, role or type of challenge in which the development needs to matter.
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Purposeful and structured approach
The ability to maintain direction towards a clear development need without making the conversation mechanical or method-driven.
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Integrity and professional judgement
A high level of respect for confidentiality, roles and boundaries when both the client and an external sponsor are involved.
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Presence and trust
The ability to create an open but rigorous conversational climate with people in roles carrying significant responsibility and in complex situations.
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Commitment to shared quality
Openness to UpMe’s quality principles, peer learning and shared development without giving up individual professional judgement.
Collaboration
Shared quality. Independent professional responsibility.
UpMe should create a clear and professional framework around the assignment. At the same time, the programme leader should have the space required to use experience, presence and judgement in the meeting with the client.
Relevant matching
Assignments should be matched based on the client’s situation and the experience relevant to that context.
Clear quality framework
Shared principles create consistency in what UpMe promises the client without micromanaging the professional conversation.
Confidentiality as a foundation
The client’s integrity and the trust in the development relationship must not be compromised by an external sponsor’s need for visibility.
Professional discretion
The programme leader is expected to use professional judgement and adapt the work to the real situation within UpMe’s shared quality principles.
Working with UpMe
A collaboration built for quality and trust.
UpMe wants to work with programme leaders who share our view of professional development and can contribute high-quality coaching, relevant experience and sound professional judgement.
Shared quality framework
Programme leaders work within UpMe’s shared principles for quality, structure, integrity and confidentiality, while the professional dialogue must remain personal and adapted to the situation.
Learning with integrity
UpMe should develop through experience and learning across assignments and programme leaders, without compromising clients’ confidential content or trust.
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