Models of Coaching Supervision
As a coaching supervisor, one of the things I felt was really important in training as a coach supervisor was the fact I could bring new, specific skills and techniques and models of supervision, as well as my experience as a coach and my life experience to my work with coaches.
So what models of supervision do I use?
Well, having trained with The Coaching Supervision Academy, I use a couple of key models all the time as a coach supervisor when I work.
These become a flexible background to how we work together.
The Full Spectrum Model
I use this informally as a background and always send out a copy to new coaching supervision clients. As a model of coaching supervision, The Full Spectrum model is a holistic approach. I like it because it is a good reminder at the start of working together, and throughout the coaching supervision relationship, how broad coaching supervision can be. How many elements of your work as a coach, and with your clients, you can bring to supervision.
You can find a full description of the Coaching Supervision Academy Full Spectrum Model here.
The 7 Eyed Model of Coaching Supervision
Another key model for coach supervisors to use with their clients to help structure a session. As when you are a coach, you may use the Grow Model to structure your coaching sessions, the 7 eyed model can form a similar, loose framework for the supervision.
Based on work by Hawkins and Shohet, it helps take the coach out of the immediate coaching session, and take a super-vision of the coaching by looking at different perspectives of the work.
The 7 eyes are:
- Bringing the client into the room – all about the particular client and their situation
- What strategies the coach is using
- The relationship between coach and client
- Your experience of the call as the coach
- Any parallel process happening on the call
- What I notice as the supervisor about everything
- The big picture and organisational context to the coaching work
You can find out more about the model on the Coaching Supervision Academy website under the 7 Eyed Model
