Coaching Supervision? Why is it so important?
‘At the core of continual professional development is continual personal development where our own development is weaved through every aspect of our practice’. (Coaching Mentoring and Organisational Consultancy, Hawkins, P & Smith, N 2006). In the past few years, Coaching Supervision has emerged as an essential aspect of being a professional coach. Counsellors and Psychotherapists, as regulated professionals, have a supervisor as part of their CPD to ensure they are working within the agreed protocols and ethics of that profession. CIPD’s research paper entitled ‘Coaching Supervision, maximising the potential of coaching’ (2006), sets out to answer the crucial question of what coaching supervision is and why it matters. The documents state that supervision is a: ‘Structured formal process for coaches, with the help of a coaching supervisor, [...]







