Tatiana Bachkirova - Coaching And Mentoring Supervision: Theory And Practice

Coaching and Mentoring Supervision Theory and Practice

Supervision in Context series

Coaching & Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice by Tatiana Bachkirova, Peter Jackson and David Clutterbuck

Skills of Clinical Supervision for Nurses: A Practical Guide for Supervisees, Clinical Supervisors and Managers (Second Edition) by Meg Bond and Stevie Holland

The Social Work Supervisor: Supervision in Community, Day Care, and Residential Settings by Allan Brown and Iain Bourne

Psychotherapy Supervision: An Integrative Rational Approach to Psychotherapy Supervision by Maria C. Gilbert and Kenneth Evans

Forthcoming in 2012:

Supervision in Action: A Relational Approach to Coaching and Consulting Supervision by Erik de Haan

Supervision in the Helping Professions (Fourth Edition) by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet

Clinical Supervision in the Medical Profession: Structured Reflective Practice by David Owen and Robin Shohet

Coaching and Mentoring Supervision Theory and Practice

Edited by

Tatiana Bachkirova, Peter Jackson and David Clutterbuck

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First published 2011

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We welcome this excellent new addition to the Supervision in Context Series. Supervision of coaches, mentors and consultants has grown up more recently than supervision in many of the people professions such as counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work and nursing. Although a minority of coaches had been receiving supervision for many years, this was mostly delivered by supervisors trained in counseling, psychotherapy or psychology and supervision in coaching lacked its own distinctive approach, relevant to its own unique challenges. This lack of specific coaching supervision was a major factor, as many in the field were reluctant to take up supervision and there was a good deal of resistance to its development (Hawkins and Schwenk 2006). It did not help address what the authors of this book describe as the blurred boundary between coaching and counseling. The first research and the first book specifically on supervision for coaches, mentors and consultants was not published until 2006 (Hawkins and Smith 2006) and the first training specifically for supervisors of coaches and mentors did not start until 2003. Yet in the last ten years much has been done to develop this fast growing field, of which this book is the latest very welcome addition. This book brings together a remarkably rich array of contributions. These show how supervision has developed for coaches in a wide range of European countries (specifically UK, France, Denmark and Switzerland), for internal and external coaches; for mentors and consultants, and for those coaching individuals, groups, teams and wider systems.

Coaching supervision draws on many of the supervision models and approaches developed in other professions, as David Gray and Peter Jackson illustrate in chapter 1.1, and each of the chapters in section two elucidate. However, supervision of coaches has significant differences from those supervising other helping professionals. Whereas the counselor, nurse, or social worker have clear individual and group clients that they bring to supervision, those who are carrying out executive coaching, paid for by organizations, always have to serve multiple clients. Those coaching managers and leaders in organizations have the challenge of serving the individual coaching client, the organization in which the coaching takes place and the relationship between the two. It is all too easy for the coach to be more focused on the individual they are with in the coaching room and pay less attention to the organization and yet this organization has an investment in the coaching relationship and its outcomes. When the coach comes to supervision, the supervisor needs to hold in mind the coach and their development, the coach's individual and team clients, the organizations investing in the coaching and the systemic connection across all these different entities. This requires a sophisticated, systemic and sensitive form of supervision.

Tatiana, Peter and David also point out other extra challenges for the coach supervisor; namely that coaches are often less well trained to identify mental-health issues impinging on the boundaries of coaching; and less prepared to identify the effect of their personal process on their work because they are not required to undertake counseling or other personal development. These put extra responsibility on the coaching supervisor who needs to combine expertise on the coaching craft, understanding of adult development and psychological process, a wide ranging understanding of business, systems and organizational dynamics. This requires specific supervision skills on top of the coaching skills they will have already acquired.

One of the great strengths of this particular book is that Tatiana, Peter and David have brought together contributions from practice, teaching and research as well as the growing body of theory in the field, while providing a lively and practical text that help both the new coaching supervisor and those who have been practicing for many years.

This new edition sits proudly alongside the other books in this series, which include:

Supervision in the Helping Professions by Peter Hawkins and Robin Shohet (now in its 3 rd edition)

Clinical Supervision for Nurses by Meg Bond and Susie Holland (now in its 2 nd edition)

The Social Work Supervisor , by Allan Brown and Iain Bourne,

Psychotherapy Supervision by Maria Gilbert and Ken Evans.

Shortly we will adding to this series with new books on Supervision in Medical Settings edited by David Owen and Robin Shohet and a book on Supervision in Schools by Elizabeth Holmes.

This whole series focuses on how to create, develop and sustain helping relationships, through providing quality supervision to those who work broadly in the people and helping professions. Quality supervision is the key link in helping practitioners link what they learn in theory, with what they learn and do in practice and is therefore the core of all continuous personal and professional development. At its best it serves and benefits the professional being supervised, their clients, the organizations in which they work (and work for) and the development of the profession. In today's world no helping professional can afford to be without supervision and this book also provides an excellent frame for coaches, mentors and consultants to know what they should be demanding as part of sustaining the quality and development of their practice.