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The Coaching Centre offers World Class Supervision |
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In the process of developing the professional standards of coaching in SA and globally, supervision has come to be a standard practice of excellence for coaching and for continued professional development. In the standards and ethics sections of the constitution for COMENSA supervision has been positioned as a core practice for the effective and responsible delivery of coaching – as a place in which the coach can reflect and develop practice and for the safety and service of the client.
 The Coaching Centre offers world class supervision. All members of faculty have been specifically trained in the process of supervision and our Faculty Head completed her Doctorate in Professional Coaching in 2005, developing a theory, “Towards Coaching Supervision – an Integral Approach”. This has positioned the Coaching Centre as a world leader in the field.
The enormous upsurge of coaching, as a powerful means of maximizing the human element of leadership potential and performance, has brought with it the recognition of human development. With this comes the need for highly skilled coaches to manage a hugely complex field of experience.
Skilled supervision is set to be a necessary and vital support for continued professional development.
Supervision of coaches allows for coaches to re-construct their experience, to reflect, understand and design their professional reality in the supervision context as well as develop responses for future options.
The supervisors job would be to work with the coach, who is working with the organization to understand and embed high values for coaching practice and professionalism:
- to be able to integrate coaching with other initiatives and systems in an organization such as compensation, evaluation and job assignment
- meet the need top-level support by executives
- enable the coaches to ground their work in the coach’s environment
- help the coach achieve agreed upon goals for personal development and for the work with the client
- transfer knowledge and skills to sustain ongoing development
- be aware of and surface hidden truths from the subjective experience to be held out as objective phenomena which can be examined and thus transformed
- and manage the context of varied levels of qualifications due to coaches coming from varying backgrounds to ensure that they are effective
“Paddy has also played an important role in South Africa’s research community in the last five years. Paddy set up the supervision programme for The Coaching Centre in South Africa, and as a result of her doctoral research, Paddy has created a comprehensive supervision model for executive coaches. Paddy presented a paper on her research at the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) conference in Brussels in 2004.“
- Sunny Stout Rostron, Executive Coach and Faculty Member
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