The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

23 Supervising team coaches

Working with complexity at a distance

Alison Hodge and David Clutterbuck

The transition from one-to-one coach to team coach requires a substantial increase in skills, confidence and ability to work with dynamic complexity. It follows, therefore that the supervision of team coaches requires a corresponding enhancement of the skills and knowledge of the supervisor, compared with supervising coaches, who are working one-to-one with clients. However, we have very little empirical evidence to support this assumption, other than a survey of team coaches and their supervisor (Clutterbuck & Hodge, 2017), which we carried out specifically to support this chapter.

In this chapter, we explore team coach supervision from the perspectives ...