Summary Levels of training The aim of any training course in mentoring is to equip participants with the skills they will need to be confident, effective and safe in the role in which they are expected to operate. For most organizations, it is convenient to categorize training programmes as: Line manager briefing Nature of (more…)
When Kathy Kram carried out her seminal research into mentoring at the beginning of the 1980s, she focused on a small number (22) of informal mentoring relationships, taking place within a specific cultural context – educated North Americans. She identified a number of themes that recurred in these relationships and, as she herself has readily...
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One of the remarkable aspects of mentoring is how extensively researched the topic has been. However, extensively-researched isn’t the same as well-researched. Having had to trawl through hundreds of papers and a fair pile of dissertations for my own current doctoral research, I soon came to echo the thoughts of an anonymous business school faculty...
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Questioning the role and value of executive coaching is likely to raise quite a few hackles. But questioning our own practice is a key component of competent coaching. So it was with both anticipation and some discomfort that I began last year to explore the question: “Could leaders and managers be using having a coach...
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Why do coaches need supervision The concept of supervision in coaching is borrowed from the world of psychotherapy and counselling, where supervision is a condition of practice. Most of the professional bodies in coaching, in Europe at least, insist that all professional coaches undergo regular supervision. European standards for supervision should be published by the (more…)
In corporate programmes, a small group of supervisors (or just one) is usually appointed. If, however, you find you need to select your own supervisor, the following advice may be helpful: Be clear what kind of supervision you are looking for (e.g. individual or group? With an emphasis on a particular psychological approach?) and look (more…)
How much supervision do I need? It depends on several factors: · the level of coaching you are doing (i.e. whether it is for example, predominantly skills coaching or, say, behavioural coaching) – the more significant and complex the issues your client faces, the more supervision you need · how often you coach (at least (more…)
Summary Aims of supervision Types of supervision Supervision and externally resourced executive coaches Managing supervision Using a supervisor Aims of supervision In the workplace, the term “supervision” is usually applied to line management, where the supervisor takes overall responsibility for the work of direct reports. In coaching and mentoring, supervision is much more about supporting (more…)
Coaching Supervision is a process for helping coaches reflect on their practice so that they grow in competence and ensure client safety. It draws on the world of counselling, where supervisors provide three important roles: Normative – the supervisor accepts (or more accurately shares with the supervisee) responsibility for ensuring that the supervisee’s work is (more…)
Measurements of the impact of coaching consistently show a high return on investment from successful creation of a coaching culture within teams and from executive coaching. The picture with regard to life coaching and basic “sheep dip” training of line managers as coaches is much less clear. Creating a coaching culture in the team has (more…)