Written by Helen Jones, Assoc, Email Helen Jones
©2010 Helen Jones; All Rights Reserved

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The International Coaching Register is for any individual who trades as a Coach, who help individuals and/or organisations for example, establish a work life balance, manage stress levels and build communication skills amongst many other specialist areas.

Everyone who has qualified as a Coach with a recognised Coach training company should now take the opportunity to register. This will dramatically cut down on any misrepresentation that goes on within the industry. Many people have websites and call themselves a Coach but have no actual qualifications. The register will stop these people and raise the profile of genuine Coaching and how it can transform people’s lives.

President of the IIC Gerard O’Donovan said “the register has been administered by the IIC for the benefit of the world of Coaching and Coaching clients. It is also a great way for Coaches to get business as members of the public can search for registered Coaches in their area. It brings Coaching transparency at last.”

As a Member of the IIC, Have you published your details on the International Coaching Register, at no charge?
To do so:

Login to the IIC Members Area, and then select the ICR Register Edits menu option on the left hand side of the screen.

Create your entry by selecting:

Insurance - enter your Professional Indemnity Insurance details here. Training - enter the details of all the training courses you have completed here. Workshops - enter the details of all the workshops you have attended here. Accreditation - your IIC Accreditation details will automatically be included here. You also have the opportunity to enter the details of all the accreditations/credentials you have been awarded, as an independent verification of your Coach training and experience. Business Details - select or enter all types of Coaching you include in your Coaching Business/Practice. Organisation Membership Details - enter the details of all Business Organisations in which you hold a Membership -these could be other Coaching Bodies, Chamber of Commerce, or any type of organisation that is appropriate to your business. Display - do not forget to DISPLAY your details.Selecting yes your details will be displayed on the International Coaching Register. For IIC Accredited Coaches, your details will also be displayed on the IICs Coaching Referral programme.

We look forward to seeing you on the International Coaching Register.

PaTrisha-Anne Todd, Email PaTrisha-Anne Todd
© 2010 PaTrisha-Anne Todd; All Rights Reserved

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‘Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone home to their own mind, to show them how good they can be’. Nancy Kline

One of the most important attributes of successful coaches is self-confidence showing up as genuinely confident in their craft, coach elegantly and really make an impact.

What Is Coaching Supervision?

Coaching supervision can bring to your practice a learning edge that develops presence, increases the range of interventions and builds confidence to coach in many different contexts. It can make a difference leaving coaches with a SUPER-VISION of their practice and the means to optimise their skills.

Supervision offers a collaborative learning partnership in which Reflection, Insight and Support are key components. Here are some areas which supervision illuminates:

Establishing contracts, including the often-ignored psychological contract.

Exploring critical moments in Coaching

Ensuring that ethics and standards are sustained

Exploring blind spots – we all have them!

Building the Internal Supervisor

Developing Systemic thinking

Developing relational awareness.

Offering in-depth support when working with ‘difficult clients’.

Example: A fairly typical ‘critical moment’ in coaching can occur when a coach processes a 360-feedback report with a coachee, which has hard-hitting comments. Sometimes, the coachee puts up a very strong defence against the comments. Supervision can support the coach so that they are not caught in parallel process becoming defensive in their turn and can enable the coach to be curious about the coachee’s behaviour, rather than disabled by it. Or the coachee may become emotional and thus affect the coach’s thinking. Here, supervision provides a safe, reflective space where the coach can explore their responses to strong emotion so that they return to that coachee better resourced and more grounded.

What is the Internal Supervisor?

Building the Internal Supervisor in supervision sessions means that coaches will have immediate access to the cognitive, somatic and intuitive data that naturally occurs inside the coach during coaching conversations. This valuable information is often ignored. This range of information becomes available to the coach’s analytical/processing mind, which in turn decides interventions and strategies. With a well-developed Internal Supervisor, comes a major increase in coaches’ confidence, coaching presence and powerful, impactful coaching.

Coaching Supervision greatly accelerates the development of the Internal Supervisor by working directly with the coach’s internal system: intuition, body responses, hunches, thinking and awareness of the energetic exchange between client and coach. This ‘energetic exchange’ can also be understood as transference/countertransference and is explored as part of the dance between coach and coachee. By paying attention to these various types of information, the coach’s blind spots are removed, and there is much greater knowledge about the coaching relationship and of the coaching process - where the main insights and shifts often occur. Coaches learn how to use these insights to accelerate change.

Developing the ability to think systemically is an important part of the supervisory process. The coach learns more about the interplay between self and the whole system – eg all stakeholders. The result is the creation of effective, robust working alliances and an increase in the ability to keeping professional boundaries.

The ‘Support’ of supervision is enormously valuable

Coaches in supervision often refer to the relief of having time and space to reflect with a trained supervisor who will microscopically explore practice with them and contribute to their understanding. This support enables the coach to contain and resolve some of the more challenging parts of their work e.g. their frustrations with coachees, their concern that they are not doing enough, the difficulty of keeping to a coaching contract when the coaching ‘flow’ is going off piste, the undue influence of key stakeholders which might reduce coach effectiveness, unexpected emotional material either within the coach or in the coachee and ‘ruptures’ in the coaching relationship.

Coaching supervision enables coaches to be present and open, creative and empowered in a field that may contain ambiguity, complexity and that is often multi-layered. This level of reflection goes a long way to increasing coaches’ range and confidence.

Edna Murdoch is an Executive Coach and Director of the Coaching Supervision Academy. She runs a 9-month, Coach Supervision training programme in London, offers supervision to Executive and Internal coaches, individually and in groups. Her forthcoming presentation at the EMCC conference in Dublin is entitled: “Who You Are is How You Coach.”

Full information may be found at: www.coachingsupervisionacademy.com

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