CHAPTER 7: Virtual Coach and Mentor Supervision Available to Purchase

The coaching profession has eagerly embraced communications technology, and this has increased the capacity for rich exchange and increased the range of learning environments. This chapter will look at how both group and individual coach and mentor supervision can occur virtually and what supervisors need to be aware of when working in this way. It will also highlight significant features of using a combination of telephone, email and recorded material in supervision and what is different when we supervise face-to-face. The chapter illustrates some of the key features of coach and mentor supervision and shows how virtual supervision results in a powerful and effective form of professional development for coaches and mentors. In addition, there is insight into how working virtually affects the body/mind and how the energy of the work is carried across the various media. The supervisees referred to in the chapter are members of virtual coach supervision groups run by CSA. They have been asked to comment on their experience of telephone supervision.