Developing Coaches

Coaching Supervision services for Coaches

Kat specialises in supervising coaches who work with clients in an organisational setting and in-house coaches at large organisations.

Why invest in Coaching Supervision?

You know your coaching creates a powerful impact with your clients and you want to keep building on that. You enjoy learning and want to keep growing as a Coach – whether that’s skills, experience or your own inner work. You care deeply that you’re providing a safe, ethical and professional service.

Kat’s Supervision focusses on:

▲ You and your wellbeing

▲ Your skills, knowledge, tools and capability as a Coach

▲ The professional and ethical standards you work to and the wellbeing of your Client.

As well as proactively engaging in Supervision because you want to learn, it is also a requirement of some professional coaching bodies that you work with a Supervisor. This is particularly important when you are working towards or upgrading your accreditation with one of these bodies that require you have undertaken a minimum ration of Supervision hours to support you in your coaching practice (for example the Association for Coaching).

Grow yourself, grow your practice

Typical outcomes from Supervision:

▲ A deep feeling of support – knowing that you have someone in your corner working to support you and your needs

▲ A feeling of commitment to your profession, having high professional standards and a safe, supportive practice for your clients

▲ Knowing that you are deepening the impact of your coaching and seeing the transformational results of your clients as your knowledge and skills deepen

▲ Deeper understanding and exploration of the organisational system that you and your client are part of – how to maximise impact across the system

▲ Space to reflect, feel calm, unhurried and relaxed

▲ Investing in yourself – who you’re being and becoming as well as what you ‘do’

▲ Help achieving your next coaching accreditation – increasing your professionalism, personal brand and marketability as a Coach.

Why choose to work with Kat?

Kat has been running her private coaching practice as an Executive Coach for >7 years and also worked as an in-house Coach, leading a team of coaches. Having worked in both contexts she is able to support your development as an in-house coach or as a business owner. Kat is open to sharing her personal experience - the joys and challenges of both.

Kat is an accredited Professional Executive Coach with the Association for Coaching and a Master NLP Practitioner. She has studied neuroscience, mindfulness and resilience, often bringing these insights to her coaching and supervision. Combined with her experience as a leader in Financial Services, Kat’s clients find her to be commercially minded, knowledgeable and positively challenging.

Her background as a corporate banker means Kat is quickly able to understand organisational coaching context, including a firm’s strategy, vision and drivers and how to work supportively and professionally with both client and sponsor to create positive outcomes for all parties. As a former Head of Coaching for the London & South East region of a FTSE 100 organisation, Kat is well versed in leadership development programmes – their design delivery and embedding through coaching. Kat will be a particularly helpful Supervisor to those who work with clients in an organisational setting (Executive, Leadership & Career Coaches).

Kat completed a Supervision Certificate in 2022 and her supervision approach is heavily influenced by the Relational Matrix model of supervision which looks at the Client, Supervisee and Supervisor all in relation to self, other and situation.

How will we work together?

To build a strong working relationship and see lasting impact, the programme Kat most often recommends is:

▲ 6-12 months Supervision (one 60 minute session per month)

▲ Unlimited access to Kat via Voxer – an app we can use to swap voicenotes and texts between our sessions if you’d like ad hoc ideas and support. Kat typically responds to these requests within 24 hours

▲ Access to tools, techniques and resources that Kat uses with her own coaching clients – shared on an ad hoc basis depending what is helpful and relevant to you.

Investment:

The investment for supervision with Kat varies because she wants her service to be accessible to all Coaches, whether they’re new to the field, in-house or experienced and running larger businesses. Kat will typically suggest that you invest the same in your coaching development that you would ask a 1-1 client to invest in their work with you. For example if you charge £100 an hour for your coaching, Kat will suggest the same rate for your supervision with her (this is the minimum supervision rate). If you charge £250 an hour, Kat will likewise suggest the same rate for your supervision.

This means that Kat can meet you where you’re at, the rate is fairly linked to your coaching practice and all Coaches are able to access supervision to continue building their skills and practice. We’ll discuss and agree this rate together.

If you have different requirements for format and frequency, for example because you are working towards a specific qualification timeframe or if you’d like to bring a peer to work together as a pair/ small Supervision group please contact Kat who would be happy to listen and co-create a programme that best supports you.

Let’s see if we’d like to work together 😊

Consulting services – Designing your in-house coaching proposition

Kat works with C-suite or L&D teams to create a coaching culture inside the firm by:

▲ Creating a framework for when to engage with external coaches (high stakes moments) and curating a panel of trusted partners

▲ Creating in-house coaching expertise/ coaches to support middle management and improve cost effectiveness of coaching

▲ Designing internal accreditation processes or recommending external training/ accreditation where merited.

▲ Supervision services for in-house coaches to develop their skills, manage conflicts of interest that arise internally and ensure ethical, professional practice.

When senior leaders are at a high stakes moment, the investment in external coaching creates significant ROI for the organisation and individual. But you also need to find commercial, scalable ways to support leaders in your pipeline and succession plan who aren’t yet at this moment. We know they would benefit from 1-1 coaching, but a more economic option can be to create or build the capability of internal coaches.

Kat has seen various permutations of this, for example:

▲ Full scale in-house coaching teams, highly credible, professionally accredited, externally supported and creating great impact with clients

▲ A couple of L&D professionals, trained as coaches, providing ad hoc coaching support as and when they can

▲ Leaders who are trained internally or externally with coaching skills to use a coaching style to develop their team and build their skills

And a few with a mix of the above!

With a variety of possible approaches based on the scale of your business and the needs of the leadership population, Kat can consult with you to understand what you want to achieve and recommend a model that could work well for you.