What Do Coaches Talk About in Supervision?

If you were really, really confident, how would you be?

04/05/2021

Recognising it’s tough out there and that confidence is down, I’ve been running weekly sessions on Zoom about how to protect your confidence in tricky times. So how do you be really confident? I believe confidence is the lifeblood of one’s business and, when it’s…

Ideas for Coach Supervision content: Objectivity and Evasiveness

01/02/2021

Can we use more than instinct in a real-time conversation? If not instinct, lots of different perspectives suggests to me that my analytical brain might whirr all the more from juggling all the possibilities and impact my listening.

Who is the world calling you to be?

04/01/2021

What a year 2020 has been! How do we begin to find purpose and meaning in a year which, on the surface, has brought so much uncertainly, chaos and anxiety to so many people around the globe? It is easy to look back and be grateful for the times that bring joy and…

What is the essence of coaching?

30/09/2020

I’ve got this big idea. It involves articulating coaching and then training it at scale. Why? Well at the most basic level, I believe that if I know something will make a massive difference, it would be unethical not to share it But first I have to articulate coaching.…

To what extent are coach supervisors lifeguards?

16/06/2020

Hope you've been enjoying Helen's TCD community Zoom calls during lockdown. The one on coach supervision prompted this question about lifeguarding being a possible metaphor for coach supervision. The idea is a little frivolous perhaps, inviting an initial answer of 'no'.…

Confessions of a supervisor

07/01/2020

Confessions of a supervisor I must confess, when I am supervising groups of coaches I sometimes come away somewhat disappointed. All too often the coaches come from one of two stances. They either come in 'lazy mode', where they haven't reflected on their own work but…