Obviously the answer to this question is both yes and no!
I trained initially in Clinical Supervision and later in Transpersonal Supervision and began my supervisory career supervising senior managers and psychotherapists. Looking back, my first months supervising coaches taught me a great deal about the useful elements in my coaching toolkit and what I could effectively remove.

Subsequent feedback from coaches has helped me to became aware that the process model of clinical supervision was too slow for the coaching profession and while there is a valuable knowledge base in classic supervision practice, coaching supervision needs to take more cognizance of coaching theory, methods, contexts, competencies and ways of learning.

It also needs to be flexible enough to work with coaches from many different coaching schools. Students on the CSA Diploma in Coaching Supervision, for example, have to have a qualified COACH supervisor to supervise their supervision practice – even the best clinical supervisors will not do!

What do you think are the key ingredients of supervision? And how, in your experience, has it differed from more generic supervision?