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Self-Assessment Tool for Organisational Coaches

Many elements in organisational systems are not plain to see.

How it Works

Imagine standing next to a river before crossing. You can see the river flowing, yet powerful currents remain hidden until you are immersed in the water.

These will always affect your path, at worst leaving you struggling to survive. Recognising and becoming familiar with the currents allows one to navigate them and successfully cross the river.

In organisations, these currents reveal themselves in relationships. Typically these relationships are between personnel, their coaches, organisational representatives, and even the organisation itself as an entity. 

Skillful practitioners recognise currents, understand them clearly, and navigate them with conscious awareness.  Understanding organisational environments from a systemic perspective, and one’s role in this system, develops the leadership coaching skills and confidence to respond potently and decisively.

Often this falls within the domain of Executive Coaching, although any practitioner working in an organisational environment will experience the dynamics of a system. Watch a video explanation of the system in organisational coaching below.

Executive Coach Supervision

Watch this video to help you understand the 7 eyes of executive coaching. 

Areas of Proficiency | Areas of Development

I developed the supervision self-assessment tool for practitioners working in leadership, executive and organisational coaching.

The tool gives you as a practitioner, insight into your personal expertise in 3 dimensions of proficiency, across 7 aspects of organisational coaching/consulting work. It is developmental not diagnostic.

  • use trusted frameworks to measure and develop your skill
  • know where your strengths lie
  • become aware of developmental areas
  • monitor your developmental journey

Features

A world first developed with the permission of Dr Peter Hawkins

Learning Philosophy

  • A developmental tool
  • Learn more about yourself and your capability in a systemic coaching setting.

7-Eyed Model of Supervision

  • Work with an established model used when coaching in organisations.
  • Gain deep insight into each of the 7 key areas of coaching in organisations.

Proficiency

  • Uses a recognised competency model. Map out 3 primary aspects of your proficiency as a coach.
  • Applied across 7 key domains in systems.

Meta-Analysis

21 aspects explored, followed by:

  • A meta-analysis of your self-assessment.
  • A total 31 valuable metrics of your proficiency as a coach working in organisations.

Applied Learning

  • Identify your strengths, developmental areas, and clear insight into the factors which impact you as a coach in organisations.

More about the Tool

The self-assessment is a developmental tool, a self-reflection on 3 aspects of your proficiency in 7 domains of executive/organisational/leadership coaching. The tool gives you 31 metrics of your proficiency.

  • Step 1- Start with completing the assessment at the end of  this page (make sure pop-ups are allowed, to see the booking page when you have finished the questionnaire)
  • Step 2- You will be given options to book your feedback session with me at a convenient time. Read more about the session below.
  • Step 3- Complete easy payment using PayPal. Use of the tool, feedback session and the copy of your results cost US$ 55
  • Step 4- We meet to discuss your results in a 1.5 hour session, along with a summary of the results and session take-aways as a PDF afterwards

Alternatively, if you feel more comfortable meeting with me first to find out more about the tool and how it can benefit you, please use the booking feature at the end of the page to set up a meeting.

What you receive:

  • Identify your strengths and developmental areas in organisational coaching
  • Understand and compare 3 dimensions of your proficiency, within a developmental framework
  • Deep insight into what areas of your work you can develop yourself in professionally and personally
  • Professional supervision to resolve specific issues in practice

What You Can Expect

Specialised Supervision for Organisational Coaches

Coaching an executive includes reflecting on and responding to the complexity of leadership roles within an organisational context. Executive coaching conversations cover personal life, C-Suite relationships, organisational departments, key employees, and organisational strategy and dynamics. The executive client’s approach to these aspects and their challenges in each are just one of seven elements of coaching in this space.

As a coach supervisor, I work with executive, leadership and organisational coaches, to map out the seven elements of coaching in organisations, reflect on their overall impact, and strategise on appropriate coaching responses. The tangible outcome for the coach, is a potent and lasting impact on the organisation as a whole, beyond the work with the individual coaching client.

When coaching is working well, it is personally enriching to the leadership coach and their client. I work with coaches operating in an organisational space, in an explorative way, to recognise where their own stuff, their approach, client challenges or organisational dynamics get in the way of fulfilling and effective organisational coaching.

Managing complexity in an organisational coaching setting can be particularly difficult. I am trained to help coaches make sense of these situations and design ethical and safe responses relevant to client and organisational needs.

Awareness, Resolution, Skill, Strategy

As a practitioner working within the field of personal and professional development with other human beings, coaches will always be one element of the dynamic in these relationships.

Navigating the complexities of relationships within organizations can be a challenging and sensitive issue, fraught with ethical dilemmas, personal triggers, and layers of complexity. As a coach, it is not always easy to identify these dynamics or understand how they may be affecting your relationship with your clients.

In our supervision sessions, I work together with you to gain a deeper understanding of these issues. By shining a light on the places where you are effectively managing these challenges, I can help you strengthen your skills and approach them with more intention. If you are feeling stuck or uncertain, I can provide support and guidance so that you can respond in a way that is both safe and ethical, with an impact that benefits not just your executive client, but the organization as a whole.

I recognize that the relationships within organizations can be incredibly intricate and multifaceted, and that it is not always easy to navigate them with grace and sensitivity. That is why I approach this work with empathy and humanism, recognizing the many layers of emotion and complexity that can come into play. Together, we will explore the issues that arise, work to build your skills and understanding, and develop strategies that will allow you to work more effectively with your clients and make a positive impact on their organizations.

Personal and Professional Transformation

Executive coach supervision helps you recognise how you approach your practice and engage with executive clients.

It is about understanding your strengths and developmental areas with deeper insight, so you can use them consciously and with intent as needed, within the context of leadership coaching in organisations. You will learn to recognise patterns that emerge in your experiences with executive clients and the management of your practice as a business. This helps you avoid repeat difficulties whilst increasing your effectiveness as an organisational coach, leadership coach or executive coach.

How it Helps

In coach supervision you can expect to resolve the challenges you experience with clients and in managing your practice. I supervise professional coaches both new to the field and experienced, whether working with individuals or groups, or at executive level in organisations.

I am passionate about helping coaches to grow their online and face-to-face businesses. In addition to supervision, I share a number of business tools and best practices to help coaches enhance their approach to their practice and engagement with clients.

Supervision Professional Certifications

I have a PCC with ICF, and Diplomas in Coaching and Coach Supervision. I supervise using a co-creative and appreciative approach, aligned with supervision’s core of psychological mindedness. I use transactional analysis as a framework to help explore experiences and relationships. I maintain professional practice by working with my own supervisor and other continuous professional development training.

What to do Next

If you are interested in learning more about the tool, or want to use it, feel free to schedule a conversation with me below!

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Dr Peter Hawkins for permission to use the 7 Eyed Model of Supervision as the basis for this tool.

The 7 Eyed Model of Supervision was developed by Peter Hawkins in 1985 and further developed with Robin Shohet, Judy Ryde and Joan Wilmot in the areas of the Helping Professions (1989) and with Nick Smith, (2006 and 2013) Gil Schwenk and Eve Turner in the field of coaching

The model continues to be developed and the latest versions of model appear in Hawkins and Turner (2020) in the context of coaching; Hawkins and Ryde in the Psychotherapeutic field) and Hawkins and McMahon in the field of helping professions.  There is also a ten-eyed model for team coaching supervision in Hawkins (2017).

References:

Hawkins, P. and McMahon, A. (2020, fifth edition) Supervision in the Helping Professions: Maidenhead: Open University Press McGraw Hill.

Hawkins, P. and Ryde, J. (2020) Integrative Psychotherapy in Theory and Practice: A Relational, Systemic and Ecological Approach. London: Jessica Kingsley

Hawkins, P. and Turner, E. (2020) Systemic Coaching: Delivering Values Beyond the Individual. London: Routledge.

Hawkins, P. (2011 second edition 2014, Third edition 2017) “Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership.” London: Kogan Page (translated into Spanish Chinese and Japanese)

Hawkins, P. and Smith N. (2006, second edition 2013) “Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development.” Maidenhead: Open University Press/McGraw Hill.

Hawkins, P. and Shohet, R. (1989 second edition 2000, third edition 2006, fourth edition 2012) Supervision in the Helping Professions: Maidenhead: Open University Press McGraw Hill

Robin Shohet and Joan Shohet (2020) In Love with Supervision. Creating Transformative Conversations. PCCS Books