Coaching Supervision – Coaching Assured

I was very interested in this post by Dorothy Nesbit, Coaching Supervision, when anti-climax is the key measure of success.

Coaching Supervision for me has a huge role to play in this sense of assurance about our coaching performance.

When I worked for a large organisation, I had a meeting with my manager once a week where I could talk through the performance of my team, my development, hitting targets and anything else key to my job.

As an independent coach, if I didn’t have coaching supervision, I believe I’d miss this focus on my own coaching performance.  I’d only have my own reflections on how the session went.  And as we know with self talk, sometimes we are our own worst enemy!

As we know from the Johari window, sometimes we don’t know quite where we are performing as a coach, or we have a blind spot.  Coaching supervision can help with all these aspects of coaching performance.

When I was thinking about the term anti-climax, that’s when the opposite, assurance, came to me.  Assurance comes when you know you have a mechanism, a support for checking in about the work you are doing.  It’s not the same as feeling you are reporting back, like my analogy earlier of having a manager. Instead, it’s a peer to peer, professional discussion which helps you stay in the space between learning, and confidence.

What extra steps can you add into your own coaching practice to raise your assurance in the work you do?

See my coaching supervision one to one packages to work with me individually on your own assurance.