Supervision

Most of the professional bodies in coaching, in Europe at least, insist that coaches undergo regular supervision. Supervision is strongly recommended to support a coach or mentor, at any level, because all coaches:

• Should be attuned to the continued development of their coaching skills
• Meet situations, where guidance on different approaches would be useful in helping with a specific issue
• Have a duty of care to those they coach. For example, a coach may not be aware that they are imposing their own agenda on the client – supervision raises their awareness of such situations

Individual supervision is a regular one-to-one event, where the coach is able to address their experiences and concerns in an open, exploratory manner. A benefit of this form of supervision is that the coach is able to receive concentrated attention on their practice.

Group supervision is increasingly popular, because it is more cost effective and because each participating coach has the opportunity to learn from the experiences of peers. It often happens that an issue brought by another coach raises awareness of similar issues for you. Group coaching often also incorporates peer supervision, with coaches exploring together issues that colleagues bring to the session, facilitated by at least one qualified supervisor.

Many experienced coaches have several different supervision arrangements, for different aspects of their practice. For example, they may have an individual coach to develop their own personal development areas and belong to a group supervision set to address broader development issues.

At CA we can provide both one to one and group supervision. 

We also provide access and supervision around “coaching signatures”. See PDF download in right hand column for details.