How Coaching Supervision Is Helpful Even If You’re Not A Coach

Sessions are useful for anyone who works in the field of people management and development

Do you think coaching supervision is just for coaches?

If you do, you’d be mistaken.

Having a session with a qualified and experienced coach supervisor is for anyone who works in the field of people management and development.

For instance, this could include HR Managers working with senior managers or employees from the general pool on varied topics such as performance management, counselling and exit interviews.

Managers can also learn from coaching supervision how their own behaviour influences others and the relationship between them.

And it’s a helpful perspective on how to get the most out of one to one client relationships especially those requiring a medium to long-term focus.

Look at these scenarios and see if any apply to your role:

  • You’re a consultant doing lots of group work, eg training, facilitation or action learning sets. But you often work alone and have no one neutral to debrief with or process the day’s events.
  • You’re a HR manager and feeling burnt out by dealing with individuals every day on personal and competence issues that are too confidential to share in-house.
  • You’re a manager who does not get the managerial support and supervision you need because your own manager won’t do it, doesn’t know how to or works in a different field.
  • You’re an internal coach who struggles to be taken seriously within the organisation because they see you as part of the furniture.
  • You’re an external coach working with a client who has a personal issue that s/he wants to discuss but this same situation has happened to you.
  • You’re helping another coach/colleague when you discover that you both know the same ‘problem’ person you are discussing.

If you recognise yourself in any of these situations, contact Julia Menaul or telephone 01785 603726 to have a no obligation talk about how supervision could be helpful to you in your role. As well as protecting yourself and the people you work with you’ll learn how to get beneath the skin of any tricky relationship.

Published

9 years ago : Jul 15, 2014

By Julia Menaul

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