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SUPERVISION
OF ESTABLISHED COACHES
"Supervision is an ongoing process…continuing throughout
the professional life of a coach. The purpose of supervision
… is to ensure that the best interest of the coachee and the
client are protected and to provide educative and restorative
support to the coach".
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Myles
Downey, The School of Coaching
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Process
Supervision is a process whereby a coach meets regularly with
a more experienced professional coach in order to reflect on
and review his/her coaching by a means of a confidential examination
of his/her client work. Typically, the process involves a review
of session notes and/or presentation of specific issues, which
are preoccupying the coach, with regard to a particular case
or across a range of cases. The aim is to help the coach concerned
to develop a richer understanding of what is taking place between
him/herself and his/her clients as a means of further developing
coaching competence. The supervisor will seek to identify areas
for the development of the coach's practice, as a pattern emerges
across the range of cases being carried by the coach, and may
also assist the supervisee in planning his/her own continued
professional development on the basis of this.
Structure
Supervision sessions are normally one and a half hours. The
frequency of meeting is arrived at by an agreement between the
supervisor and the coach in light of the coach's client load,
the complexity of that case load and the particular challenges
being faced. Where a coach is relatively inexperienced, we recommend
a ratio of one supervision session to every six to eight coaching
sessions.
Although coaching normally takes place on an individual basis,
we are happy to undertake group coaching with up to three coaches
in the group. In this way, the group of coaches can benefit
from sharing experience between themselves as well as sharing
the cost of supervision, itself.
The Coaching Partnership Supervisor
Mike Milan acts as the tCP supervisor. Before founding The Coaching
Partnership with Lucy West, Mike was the Director of Professional
Development at GHN (now Penna Executive Coaching). In this role,
he was responsible for the design of the internal supervision
system in addition to supervising several GHN coaches. He now
maintains a supervision practice of professional coaches at
tCP.
The Coaching Partnership can provide supervision to independent
external coaches, to other coaching organisations and to organisations
developing internal coaching capacity.
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