What is Coaching Supervision? 

Coaching Supervision is a formal process of professional support, which ensures continuing  development of the coach and effectiveness of his/her coaching practice through  interactive  reflection,  interpretative evaluation and the sharing of expertise.

Our Policy:

Serenergise coaches and trainers meet regularly for group sessions to evaluate, share and update their coaching knowledge and best practice.

Serenergise coaches have access to their peers at Serenergise for one to one sessions or group brain storms, via email and phone at any time for support, advice and to float developing ideas and concepts.

 

Supporting documentation:

Hawkins and Smith (2006) developed a model that is specific to coaching supervision.  The model defines the three main functions as developmental, resourcing and qualitative. 

The qualitative function provides the quality control function in working with people.  

All coaches no matter how experienced have issues they do not see, communication not heard and challenges they are not communicating.  Consequently, a coach acting in isolation cannot maintain high quality coaching. 

Supervision can also be a means of ensuring that the coaching is on track with organisational objectives.

The developmental function is about developing the skills, understanding and capabilities of the supervisee. 

This is done through the reflection and exploration of the supervisee's work with their  clients .  In this exploration, the supervisor to may help them:

Understand the client better

Become more aware of their own reactions and responses to the client; Understand the dynamics of how the coach and the client interact; Look at how they intervened and the consequences of their interventions; Explore other ways of working with this and other similar client situations.

The resourcing function is a way of providing emotional support to enable the coach to deal with the intensity of working with  clients . 

At times coaches will be affected personally and emotionally by being present and  empathic with their coaching  clients . 

To continue to remain effective, the coach needs to attend to themselves so they  avoid becoming over identified with their  clients  or defended against  being further affected.

Supervisor training and qualifications

The training and qualifications of coaching supervisors are currently very diverse.  Some

supervisors have:

Overall, however, there appear to be no clear standards for coaching supervisors.

Good practice in managing the supervision of coaches “To open one's work to scrutiny is  important best practice in any helping activity.  If you are going to invest in coaches in the workplace, this is an essential part of it – it is not an optional exercise.”  Barbara Picheta, development consultant and coach, PricewaterhouseCoopers  UK

Good practice in coaching supervision means it :

Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring currently require trainee coaches to have 1

hour supervision for 20 hours of coaching and fully trained coaches 1 hour of supervision  for every 35 hours of coaching.

Serenergise coaches adhere to this level of supervision.

 

 

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