Supervision is the formal opportunity for coaches and mentors to share their caseload in confidence on a one-to-one or group basis.
The ABM aims to support our members as they grow knowledge and skills with continuous learning, development and qualifications, all within a professional framework and guided by the UK and Ireland Professional Code of Conduct for Business Mentors and Business Mentoring.
Through this, we are supporting the UK and Ireland economy and business community by helping business owners find a trusted and qualified professional business mentor. Supervision is one method of how coaches and mentors can stay at the peak of their game.
The ABM follows the framework of Proctor & Inskipp (1993) for the Supervision Programme, which breaks the functions of Supervision down into three key components: Formative, normative and restorative
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Mentoring is a profession that immerses us in other people's challenges, struggles and limitations. We get deeply under their skins and into their emotions. And quite often this can create an impact on our own ability to be able to support our client.
The restorative function is a kind of release valve to support the mentor to handle the leftovers of such challenging emotions caused by client conversations. It allows the mentor to let go of these feelings and help them share those with their supervisor.
However, the supervisory style in the helping the professional is markedly different from managerial supervision or even mentoring. Far from being a teacher-student relationship, the supervisory relationship is one of explanation and discovery. It's about sharing of ideas and considerations of the possibilities rather than the didactic lessons in how to be a better coach or mentor.
This introduces the issues of professional standards into the supervision conversation. In other words, what is OK and what's not okay within the boundaries of the profession. ABM Supervisors hereby employ the Professional Standards as part of theABM Professional Framework (link to web page).
The ABM supervision services are generally supplied as online interactions. They can be provided one-to-one or as group and both provide the opportunity for the member to be supported by a supervisor and peers.
Supervision is at the heart of our coaching and mentoring development provision and supports the pastoral support that is sometimes required by our members and done so in a safe and positive space.
Tim’s passion for coaching and mentoring has helped shape his service offerings supporting fellow practitioners to become the truly fabulous coaches and mentors they aspire to be. Tim offers his peer coaches and mentors a safe space where a triangulated process that is co-created with the supervisee, the supervisor and the agenda or curriculum that is emerging from the supervisee's work. We contract by asking: "What challenges are emerging in your work that we need to explore and work on together".
I am a qualified supervisor, as well as a mentor/coach trainer, business mentor and leadership coach. I balance presence and structure to help you be your best. I use the 7 Eyed Model and Supervision Spaces within a blended approach.
Kathie is an accredited Business Mentoring and Coaching Supervisor with over 25 years of industry experience in business finance, training and strategy. She provides supervision on a 1-2-1 and group basis using models to empathically focus on the self-awareness and personal growth of the Coach/Mentor/Supervisor to enhance their own practice.
Philippa Seal MA MBA FCIM is a Chartered Marketer as well as a qualified professional business mentor with over 10 years of experience mentoring owner managed businesses. As a recently qualified mentors’ and coaches’ supervisor, she uses her considerable business, commercial, marketing, mentoring knowledge and experience to help other mentors raise their effectiveness and value as mentors and coaches.
