Overview
Coaching supervision is steadily becoming the norm in the modern coaching industry. Supervision creates the space for holding a coach in the fullness and richness of their practice.
Supervisor creates a “container” where two people – coach and supervisor – learn collaboratively. Contrary to the impression that the word “supervision” may create, it does not about judging coaches or telling them how to do the “right thing”.
If you asked me what supervision is about, I’d say, it is a deep collaborative reflective practice, guided by love and acceptance, ethics, curiosity, and creativity. Supervision helps coaches to reflect on how they are being in sessions with clients and outside of sessions, when they build their coaching practice.
Some examples of topics that coaches may bring to supervision sessions are:
- How can I know the value I am bringing to my clients?
- Why do I find it difficult or exhausting to work with that particular client?
- How do I build ethical relationship with my client and their sponsor organization?
- What are my strengths as a coach? What is my uniqueness?
- My client’s thinking pace is too slow for me. I often know the answer before he does, and I start to lose focus.
- How do I attract new clients consistently and in an ethical way?
- I only have single sessions with clients, but I do not know how to get them to work with me long-term.
- After a session, I often have great ideas about what I should have asked. Clients find our sessions helpful, but not transformational.
- And a myriad of other topics
There are dozens of questions a coaching practitioner asks themselves every day. It is always helpful to think about those questions with a trained supervisor.
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