Should you seek out Coaching Supervision?

Are you familiar with Coaching Supervision? Have you ever had formal Supervision?

As you know if you’ve been following me for some time, I’m enrolled in a Level 3 program to, hopefully, get my MCC this year. As part of this learning journey, I’m getting 40 hours of training on Coaching Supervision.

I was aware of supervision but had not really learned too much about it. I attended one class on it that was presented by the local ICF chapter. I didn’t give it much thought after that until I was in a team coaching certification program a few years ago. I then discovered that team coaches must get supervision or they cannot get their ICF ACTC credential. Interesting.

Now team coaching is considered to be a level up from 1on1 coaching in terms of complexity, which is why you must get an ICF individual coaching credential before you can get a team coaching credential. And that’s a reason why supervision is required since a team coach on the journey can accelerate their development of the ins and outs of coaching a team by talking about engagements with a supervisor.

But what about 1on1 coaches? Should we get supervision, too? After completing my first 8 hours of training, I’m convinced that we should.

Watch this video where Peter Hawkins, a world-renowned coaching thought leader, talks about coaching supervision.

What Peter said that struck me was this thought that we as coaches should be challenged if we are challenging our clients to do more and be more. I cannot deny that statement.

Coaching supervision is not about your coaching skills, but it is just about everything else.

Your well-being
Your practice development
Your approach to resolving ethical dilemmas
Your coaching development journey

And so on. When I entered the field of coaching, I was excited because I knew this profession would keep me on the edge of learning and self-development. I believed it would make me a better person while I made a living doing something I love. Shouldn’t I want to get better at being a coach beyond coaching skills and also contribute to the strength of the profession for the sake of all those I work with?

In case you’re wondering how often you should get coaching supervision, the EMCC suggests one hour of supervision for every 35 hours of client coaching. You might think of it as an hour or two per month if you’re a full-time coach.

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