Our Supervision Approach
For regular consultative support and development challenge
Supervision makes a major contribution to the development of highly skilled coaches.
83% of professional bodies and 88% of international organisations who use coaches regularly, demand coaches have coaching supervision, to promote ongoing professional and ethical practice, the enhance results of coaching, and the development of the coach, not just to gain qualification and accreditation.
100% of Coaches at all levels agreed that they are expected to have a supervisor and be in regular ongoing sessions together.
Welch and Clifford, March 2020, Coaching at Work Magazine.
If you are serious about:
🌿 becoming a great coach,
🌿maintaining your ongoing capability,
🌿developing your approach to meet new contexts in the market,
🌿and running a thriving practice.. you’ll want a great supervisor alongside.
Research has shown that taking the time to explore all aspects of coaching fully with a qualified supervisor leads to greater development and deepening of understanding, than the qualification programmes that form the foundation of practice. Which is why we have chosen to focus our work in this strong developmental area going forward.
From outset to successful close, we seek to understand your approach and context, give attention to your worldview, values and beliefs in your work with your client. You discover further hidden potential, alter less-helpful patterns of thinking and feeling that occur in your practice, discover resources and get equipped to deal with challenges and opportunities alike.
Lorenza, a globally accredited coach supervisor and experienced master executive coach offers:
Individual coach supervision around your unique practice
Group coach supervision trio groups, to enrich learning.
Clients describe Lorenza's supervision as exceptional, transforming, gentle yet challenging. They report that they generate new clarity, confidence and proactive skill in their coaching and have really interesting conversations in the process.
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🌿Provide regular consultative support for you as an internal or external coach with a caseload
🌿Move toward clarity about relational elements of coaching practice in an organisational context, and balancing alignment with and independence from systems you are working in
🌿Raise awareness of self in relation to aspects of different client relationships and support you in thinking through implications and actions
🌿Increase the value of reflection work you do, about your clients and your approach
🌿Create a relationship where we share the highs, lows, responsibility, joy and honour of our work with clients
🌿Above all, we allow learning to emerge and seek ways to apply it and synthesise it into the fabric of your professional practice.
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There are four functions to cover through our supervision conversations: Developmental, Resourcing, Qualitative and Systemic.
🌿There are also meta themes, derived from experience of what is
developmentally fruitful to discuss: Ethics, Development, Sustainability, Mutuality, and Reflective Choice. Beneath each of these are themes I might offer or you might bring, as areas for further reflection and discussion.
🌿You may wish to bring coaching competence frameworks, or specific skills or approaches into the spotlight. And as you bring cases, or an aspect of your practice into supervision, we'll focus more on one element, but over the course of time, we will cover a breadth of topics. This is especially true if we are working in group, where others’ agenda for supervision will enrich the conversations.
🌿It's important to look at beginnings, middles and endings, and consider the arc of time We will adapt to work with what is current, emerging or even pressing.
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Lorenza has a relational, co-constructive, developmental approach. She creates a safe and egalitarian space through presence and listening. She employs questions, tools, mapping, embodiment and information, as appropriate to your conversation.
🌿She has been an accredited supervisor since 2012, having qualified with the Coaching Supervision Academy, and reaccredited every year through their developmental process.
🌿She has been a member of the global Association for Coaching and is an Accredited Master Executive Coach, and Certified GLP Coach (vertical leadership development) with GLA.
🌿Lorenza brings an innovative, creative edge, and makes thinking and learning exciting and relevant through a range of techniques, then grounding it in something practical and relational.
🌿In real world networks, the relationships between you and your coachees, (and between them and others) will be mirrored in the microcosm of the supervision relationship.
Lorenza will lead you to explore, as relevant, the parallel processes in play.
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Because of her past experience as Assessor with the Accreditation team at the Association for Coaching, Lorenza reads and thinks in depth about the different manifestations of coaching competences at all levels. She understands, recognises and can choose to use many different methodologies in her coaching.
Coaching is a broad church. Lorenza's interest in the function and merit of different approaches has led her to obtain training and certification in many methodologies over her professional life. She has great skill in identifying your particular strengths to feedback, and areas to explore and develop. You'll find her curious and non-judgmental. Should you be preparing for accreditation, it is good to know you are in knowledgeable hands.
Are you willing to put in the hard-thinking to get the development and confidence in your practice it brings? Supervision makes that complex, reflective-work more joyful, easier, more productive and accelerates the developmental process from other CPD work you engage in.
“Coaching supervision returns value by preparing you for the contact you have with your clients, improving interactions at all stages of the coaching life-cycle”.
In collaborative research during 2019/2020 with the AC and AOCS (summary published in Coaching at Work magazine), it was confirmed that in supervision, we are working with the big twin themes of creating value and developing enduring trust.
100% of coaches agreed that finding a supervisor you feel you can really trust is the most important aspect to being ready and willing to open up to developmental scrutiny, which we know coaches can feel vulnerable about doing. Supervisors are not here to judge, but to help you enable your own enhanced and discerning judgement. From alongside, we can provide a framework for better reflection and shine a light to guide your attention to other areas to consider.
We found that new coaches like to find a supervisor who is of the same modality as them, initially. While experienced coaches find great value comes from conversations about contrasting experiences, where we can unpack the concepts and the coach's relationship with those concepts, attending to thoughts, feelings, resistance and flow.
The "perception barrier" of not having adequate time or money for supervision, is held by two thirds of coaches who are not in regular supervision. This vanishes in the face of the value gained when coaches experience supervision. In discussion with two large groups of supervisors, the lack of understanding of the potential benefits is the biggest barrier to take-up of coaching supervision.
So where does the value come from in coaching supervision? Our research showed that:
Initial value comes from:
🍃Time to think, safe from judgement
🍃Focus on the coach in their practice
🍃Addressing issues and situations arising
Later value arises from:
🍃Non-judgmental reflection space
🍃Deepening of the relationship
🍃Developmental areas uncovered
🍃Increased capacity to serve clients
Continuing with the same supervisor, for more than a year led to value from:
🍃Deepening of trust in the relationship
🍃Addressing of patterns in challenges
🍃Growth of deeper client relationships
🍃Becoming known, respected, valued
The value of having a different or additional supervisor:
🍃Contrasts in skills, experience, modalities
🍃Fresh perspective, different presence
🍃New affirmation and focus
🍃Challenge from a different angle.
“With this knowledge, let’s move forward with even greater confidence toward valuable supervision and better practice for all coaches, and accreditation for as many as possible of those who prioritise the skills and reputation of themselves and their profession above and beyond profit alone.
You've developed your skills and been awarded your qualification as a coach. As you embark to continue your journey, you will leave safe harbour as you provide passage for others' learning in whatever conditions you meet as you voyage together. This is where the real development happens, with a supervisor alongside.