Benefits of Supervision

Individual Supervisees have offered many thoughts on this:

• A safe place to think out loud, reflect on and discuss issues, connect with feelings and understand how they are engaging with their coachees
• Provides a confidential space to think, reflect and plan
• Enhances learning and the quality of my coaching
• An opportunity to be challenged in a supportive environment
• Work on fresh ideas and solutions
• Build coaching knowledge and skills and grow coaching capacity
• Dealing with anxiety in coaching
• Builds confidence in coaching ‘tricky’ clients
• Supervision provides safety for coaches and safety for clients. It helps the coach be aware of personal limits and capabilities

From an organisational perspective including from internal coaches, benefits include:

• Providing quality assurance for all parties
• An ethical sounding board for internal coaches when they have to navigate challenging ethical issues where roles cross over
• Giving focus to the measurement of coaching outcomes
• Giving an opportunity to get feedback and ideas on coach’s work
• Helping coaches understand the wider context they work in and informs their processes in 1:1 coaching sessions
• Identifying themes and patterns to feed back into the organisation
• Providing feedback on the effectiveness of the organisation’s coaching policy and process
• Maintaining professionalism and flexibility across the organisation’s coaches
• Minimising the organisational risk of unethical or unprofessional practice.
• Helping to ensure that coaching is focused on work objectives and within the boundaries of the coach’s capability
• Providing an organisational safety net to help coaches maintain boundaries and minimising organisational risk