Here at idcoach we offer coaching for individual leaders.
With seventeen years experience working with board members and department heads, delivering real and lasting personal growth. We have experience in the retail, pharma, media, finance, farming, medical, education, consulting, transport, public and charity sectors.
If you have, or are building, an internal coaching capability, you’ll have internal coaches, but
where do those coaches go for a coach when your practice is internal?
how might you provide mentor coaching?
how are you developing and widening your coaches experience and practice?
Good coaches have coaches, so idcoach specialise in coaching for internal coaches.
for individuals
We work with people one to one; people seeking to understand their truth and to find freedom, happiness, hope, fulfilment, success or peace. Sometimes they are seeking meaning – who are they and what will their legacy be? Sometimes they are seeking a new direction and sometimes they simply feel stuck, overwhelmed, anxious or are lacking in confidence.
“Supervision is a place where a living profession breathes and learns….supervision can be a very important part of taking care of oneself, staying open to new learning, and an indispensable part of the coach’s ongoing self-development, self-awareness and commitment to learning”
Hawkins & Shohet
for the individual coach…
idcoach can offer 1-2-1 supervision for you as a practising coach. Supervision might typically explore…
the coach and their practice with challenge, support and feedback from the supervisor in support of their client work
the development of the coach’s practice with new perspectives, input and exploration
the client and the (organisational and other) systems in which they operate
the coach and the (organisational and other) systems in which they operate
the impact of those systems on the client, the coach and their relationship
the supervisor’s own process within the sessions
the supervisor’s relationship with the coach and their practice; the parallel process of the supervision relationship and how that might inform the coach client relationship
exploration and illumination of the conscious and unconscious relationship ‘postures’ the coach might take with their clients
ethical dilemmas and assurance
idcoach can also offer group supervision for you as a practising coach. Groups typically have four to six coaches in them. Group supervision might typically explore…
all of the above, but with the added value of shared experience and input from other coaches in the group
the system of your work using other coaches in the group to represent parts of that system in a 3D map or Constellation
Steve at idcoach runs supervision groups each month.
If you have internal coaches working in your organisation, how do you
keep them and their clients safe?
ensure they are working to an ethical and legal framework?
ensure the quality of their coaching continues to develop?
support them to reflect on and develop their coaching practice?
idcoach have 12 years experience offering individual or group supervision for internal coaches, working with major organisations such as GSK, John Lewis, BBC, Royal College of Nursing, Civil Service.
idcoach can support you in designing an approach to supervision for your internal coaches, including offering a fully accredited supervision training programme should you wish to develop your own supervisors.
Are you a coach who has yet to experience supervision?
Have you tried supervision, but found it didn’t deliver for you?
Do you want to get more value from working with a coach supervisor?
Do you just have unanswered questions about what it’s like and what to take?
Check out this podcast with Steve Ridgley and fellow supervisor Clare Norman as they lift the lidon coaching supervision, offering experience, insight and simple guidance on how to get more from coaching supervision.
Join us. Listen here, or subscribe with your favourite podcast provider.
This podcast sometimes looks at what has presented itself at Steve and Clare’s supervision 1-1s and groups. In this episode, they step into their own vulnerability to share the themes they are taking to their own supervision of their coaching and supervision.
Steve and Clare explore how shifting our perspective can change how we show up and how we coach. They unpack some of the ways in which our perspective can be shifted.
What if your client comes alive with only 5 minutes of the session to go?
In this podcast, you will hear Steve and Clare discussing group supervision in particular, how to ask for what you need, how to consider your responsibility to the group and how to re-contract with the group for what you need.
When might the duty of care to your client, the client’s wider system – eg their family or team, or duty of care for yourself, challenge your coaching? Would you even spot it? Is supervision itself an act of duty of care to self? Clare and Steve explore this and how a systemic stance might help.
Coaching is more than just the session itself. It’s also about the wrap-arounds that create the container. In this episode Steve and Clare explore those elements, which, if ignored, can return to bite us.
Here, Steve and Clare talk about the impact of economic and political government decisions on the field of coaching. This conversation was triggered by a communication from a coaching platform to its coaches, but it became much more wide-ranging, as we talked about ripple effects in all areas of our work. We ask the question “Who tells coaches what we can and cannot do?”
Looking for a coach supervisor?
If you are interested in joining a supervision group with Steve, or working 1-2-1 with him, contact him here to discuss what would work for you.
Prompted by a recent coaching experience Steve had, our podcasters explore what we as coaches might be expected to know, or do, when starting work with a client who has a diagnosed mental health condition. Even without clinical knowledge, is it possible to contract and move forward in a coaching relationship? How can supervision support you?
In this episode, Steve and Clare are joined by Ginny Baillie who joins us in a discussion about associate work, whether that is via a coaching platform or through an associate coaching company.
In this episode, Steve and Clare ask the question ‘who is the customer?’ when the organisation is paying for coaching.
Do you have an inner imp? A voice that wants to be more direct than taking a trained coaching approach? “What if you, the coach, think the learner/client’s idea is ‘bonkers’, do you stick to a coaching frame or not?” – a question recently raised in supervision. Or perhaps you have another guilty secret you might take to supervision?
Steve and Clare discuss some common challenges for coaches, beginning with feeling inadequate or “not good enough.” This leads to discussion about right sizing ourselves as coach – not playing small or too big.
Clare and Steve are joined in conversation by Angela Jopling. Angela, a coach of 26 years, psychotherapy trained, who operates in the fuzzy space points out the core of both these disciplines is presence, listening and holding the space. So what might it take to operate in this fuzzy space?
David Clutterbuck describes himself as a provocateur in our coaching and supervision space. And that’s how he showed up as he joined us in this podcast episode with Steve and Clare… with provocations about politics in organisations. How does this relate to coaching? Much more than we might ever imagine.
Exploring our work through considering a quote is the topic of the day. Steve and Clare discuss using quotes as a way to stimulate new thinking and to reflect more deeply on our work. The conversation delves deep into what does it mean to ‘make sense’ or ‘understand’ and what is ‘meaning making’?
Something as simple as junk mail might seem inconsequential when it comes to our coaching. But personal intrusions can stir emotions within us; such disruptions can also clash with our beliefs and values, and anything that takes us away from full presence is worth time in supervision.
Steve and Clare are joined by Val Hastings, author of “Coaching from the Inside”, a book exploring the guiding principles of internal coaching. A must listen if you work in this field.
Looking for a coach supervisor?
If you are interested in joining a supervision group with Steve, or working 1-2-1 with him, contact him here to discuss what would work for you.
Prompted by Steve asking ‘Are we losing the truth?’ Our podcasters notice how our relationship to the truth is being pulled in multiple directions – be it by government, social media, mainstream media, opinion. Clare and Steve take this hypothesis into the coaching and supervision space and ask what happens if we as the coach or supervisor chase the truth?
Today Clare and Steve explore the topic of ethics – is there a simple universal right or wrong? We explore how ethics and moral codes are inter-connected, and how what might be the right or wrong way forward in an ethical dilemma might be more a function of your personal moral code, your client’s, the relationship and the contextual situation than it is anything else.
Steve and Clare have a wide-ranging conversation with Yannick Jacob about the question “Who are you?” Why is this important? Because who you are is how you coach.
Steve and Clare talk about the confusion that can happen – for both coach and thinker – when the coach changes hats. That might be moving from: consultant or mentor to coach and back; leadership trainer to coach and back or from employee to coach and back.
Clare and Steve are joined by Charly Cox from Climate Change Coaches and together we explore how coaches might work with climate change, and why.
Clare and Steve explore how to evaluate our coaching (and also our supervision). How do we balance our needs with whether we are meeting those of our clients? How do we know how we’re doing? What can we pay attention to, and how can our self-awareness and self-development be used to support this process?
Our podcasters explore beginnings. Endings come to supervision more often and we wonder why?
Every time we ask a question of our client we may be opening up the thinking to a wider perspective or we might be narrowing it down. Steve and Clare explore when you might do one or the other and ask how often are we conscious of that?
Coaches often set clients homework, but what are your beliefs about ‘homework’ and what might be your client’s beliefs about it? Such exploration in supervision can shine a light on bigger questions about your work.
How do you know as a coach whether you’re fit for a coaching session? Steve and Clare explore this from a mental, physical and emotional standpoint.
Steve and Clare welcome Salma Shah to explore diversity, inclusion and belonging both in coaching and in supervision
We often explore endings in the context of a coaching session, but what about ending with a customer or client completely, and what about closing down your coaching business?
Steve and Clare are joined by coach, supervisor and author Michelle Lucas to reflect on how we might reflect better as coaches or supervisors
Steve and Clare explore the games people play
Are we becoming less courageous as coaches because our clients are more brittle, more anxious? Our problems seem more non-linear, cause and complexity more incomprehensible. Steve and Clare explore a new model by Jamais Cascio and ask how is this affecting our clients, and us as coaches?
Steve and Clare are joined by Georgina Woudstra to explore all things ‘team coaching’
Steve and Clare discuss the phenomenon of falling out of love with coaching. Have you fallen out of love with your work as a coach? Have you lost your mojo? Do you find the work doesn’t satisfy you or inspire you like it once did? Perhaps take this to supervision?
Steve and Clare explore the value of supervision when we feel the need to ‘sack’ our client. Be that before we begin the coaching or during the assignment.
Steve and Clare explore what happens when we play it safe, or hold back, in our coaching. What happens if we stir it up a little and play with colours unfamiliar to us?
Inspired by the drilling in Steve’s house, our podcasters explore disruption and interruption. How is it for you when you get disrupted or interrupted? What counts as a disruption or interruption for you? Are you distracted, maybe seeing or hearing something? Are you tuned in to being disrupted by your own feelings, or able to see disruption in your client’s inner world? Do you use disruption as a coaching approach?
Steve and Clare are joined by Tatiana Bachkirova, academic, educator, author, coach and supervisor. They discuss Tatiana’s latest book; Coaching and Mentoring Supervision – Theory and Practice – exploring as they chat, the variation that can be found in supervision, models, working pluralistically, current research in the field of coaching and coach supervision, including the multiplicity of self…
Steve and Clare seek to complete the statement “Supervision is like…?”. Some interesting metaphors emerge and our podcasters’ musings will offer some interested insights to our listeners
Steve and Clare explore transitions. As a coach, we tell our clients that beginning and endings are important. So, do we sip the same soup for ourselves as coaches, when we come to supervision?
Steve and Clare explore how it might be different if we come to supervision as a supervisee rather than as a coach? Step into those two in turn and see what emerges for you?
Steve and Clare talk with Charlotte Wilding, whose journey to coaching came via a career as a modern languages teacher. Charlotte now works with teachers and pupils to bring coaching skills into the local schools; these clients are both potential future coaches and clients in industry.
Steve and Clare explore bringing life to supervision. We tell our clients that it’s not just about work, not just about the goal, and that we are working with the whole person. So why is it we, as supervisees, don’t always take all of ourselves to supervision?
Steve and Clare look at all of the ways that we, as coaches and as supervisors, might get stuck in an echo chamber. Same circle, same inputs, same reading, same learning…
Steve and Clare are joined by John Anderson sharing his non-traditional route into executive coaching, from being an RAF personal trainer, to representing GB in canoeing and then on to coaching athletes through five cycles of Olympic Games.
Steve and Clare explore approaches to writing a coaching biography. They share their experiences and discuss whether bringing this to supervision is valid … of course it is!
Steve and Clare, inspired by the Animas blog post of Nick Bolton, explore the place where empathy meets collusion. Could you over empathise?
Looking for a coach supervisor?
If you are interested in joining a supervision group with Steve, or working 1-2-1 with him, contact him here to discuss what would work for you.
Steve and Clare chat with somatic coach Caroline Quaiffe. Derived from Soma (Grk), somatic refers to the body in all its intelligences – including emotional intellect, moral intellect as well physical/body intellect. This is ‘all in’ coaching. What if we were ‘all in’ for supervision too?
Steve and Clare explore grief and loss in the coaching environment with Madeleine Lankstone, who specialises in this area
Steve and Clare chew the coaching cud with Nicky Chambers. Be a fly on the wall to our conversation.
Steve and Clare move from a question, “What’s distracting you?” and meander to a place of trust and stillness as the pace slows and slows.
Steve and Clare chat with Sorrel, whose journey to coaching came via lifestyle management and Comic Relief.
Steve and Clare discuss the trouble coaches experience with large corporate clients and the admin they create solely owned businesses.
Clare and Steve and Clare continue their mini series of podcast episodes with guests; coaches who come from a ‘non-traditional’ background. This time with Alun Bedding, who works in pharmaceuticals.
Steve and Clare explore what it means to have a strategy at each stage of the coaching relationship, even down to the question you ask. Does this leave space for the client to lead?
Steve and Clare are joined by Anne Archer to explore mental health in the coaching space. As great listeners, why are we often reluctant to open up a conversation about mental health?
Steve and Clare explore losing work. Can we frame it differently – rather than I’ve lost work, I’ve gained space? They go on to explore our relationship to loss.
Steve and Clare explore making mistakes and what judgement or meaning we might make from a ‘mistake’.
Steve and Clare are joined by Charlotte Blair, a Clifton Strengths coach, to explore her journey from tech sales to coaching and supervision, as well as how our strengths show up in us as coaches.
Steve and Clare explore the 7-eyed model – a supervision tool your supervisor will doubtless have used at some point
Steve and Clare discuss the considerations to explore when setting your pricing as a coach
Steve and Clare explore the coach client relationship when the feelings become strongly felt – whether it be being drawn to your client or repelled by them… Is this normal? Something to be worried about? Something to explore in supervision?
Steve and Clare explore the rhythm of work and how our balance of work shifts over time as coaches
Steve and Clare are joined by author Sam Isaacson, to explore how changing technology may influence coaching and what might be here now, or coming soon, that could assist us as coaches.
Steve and Clare discuss our relationship to past, present and future and how this may influence our questions and our meaning making as coaches and supervisees
Steve and Clare welcome Clare Smale to explore the finite and infinite game, applied to coaching and supervision
Clare and Steve and Clare continue their mini series of podcast episodes with guests. This time talking with Tony Worgan, exploring his journey from journalism into coaching and supervision. Unconscious questioner agenda, ‘comparisonitis’ in groups, and coach maturity all emerge in the conversation
Steve and Clare demonstrate how their hobbies, pastimes and passions show up in their coaching, as a way to encourage you to discover how you and how you spend your time define your unique blend of coaching.
Steve and Clare continue their mini series of podcast episodes talking with coaches who have followed ‘non traditional’ routes to coaching and experiencing supervision; this time talking with Johanna Hooper about her journey from the high seas (the Navy).
Steve and Clare talk about how we show up in group supervision – in service of the group, of others and for yourself.
Steve and Clare talk with Dave Stitt, as they start a mini-series of podcast episodes talking with coaches who have followed ‘non-traditional’ routes to coaching and to experiencing supervision.
Steve and Clare stumble over the topic of being disorganised or unorganised as a coach, whilst chatting in the ‘green room’ … and so explore it
Steve and Clare explore celebration in supervision – do we do it enough?
Steve and Clare share their journey to becoming supervisors and talk about the differences and similarities between being a coach and being a supervisor.
Steve and Clare explore dependency in coaching. Is it more than just working together for a long period?
Steve and Clare talk with Katie Friedman and Helen Frewer about neurodiversity in coaching and supervision.
Steve and Clare discuss front stage / back stage. Just like in the theatre, we play a part in life sometimes, whilst our true selves are backstage in the dressing room. How does this manifest as a coach?
Steve and Clare explore the question “Do you ever feel stale, stuck, restricted or formulaic in your coaching approach? Curious about our relationship to safety and risk, gain and loss, fear and confidence and to being professional, our podcasters share stories and raise the not knowing levels.
Steve and Clare talk to Alex Van Oostveen about his journey into spiritual supervision. We discussed echoes in the system, vibrations that transcend the cognitive and draw on intuition, energy, somatics and emotions.
Steve and Clare discuss corporate culture and how it might impact the coach as well as the client.
Steve and Clare explore what we mean by the coach / client relationship and how we might view things differently
Steve and Clare, inspired by the book “101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments”, explore different supervision styles and share their own
Steve and Clare are joined by Rowan Gray and explore the value of movement in the work we do as coaches
Steve and Clare explore diversity within coaching and supervision and ask just how diverse are we when it comes to engaging with supervision?
Steve and Clare explore getting value from supervision. Is it worth the investment?
Steve and Clare explore the power of metaphor in coaching and supervision
Steve and Clare discuss developing our reflexivity and capability to self supervise.
Steve and Clare unpack behaviour change and ask if it is the holy grail for coaching?
Our podcasters welcome Simon Cavicchia to discuss his work on shame. MUST LISTEN IN in episode if you are a coach.
Steve and Clare ponder where coaching is headed.
Steve and Clare discuss continued professional development (CPD for coaches). How do you budget for and decide on your ongoing development? What for you constitutes CPD?
Clare and Steve explore discomfort in the coaching and supervision arena. Where might discomfort arise and how do we respond? Do we feel discomfort even at the notion of responding?
Clare and Steve discuss the opportunity organisations have to harvest insight from the coaches they employ, whilst maintaining individual confidences
Is it ever OK to hug your client? What about shaking hands? This week’s episode of the podcast sees Clare and Steve explore physical contact in the coaching space. What is ethical, what is not? What might just be responding to your sense of your humanity and compassion? What might be ‘normal’ for you and what might be embarrassing? What about your clients or your supervisor?
How does power show up in the coaching space? Do you unconsciously have power over your client? Do you give your power away to your supervisor or to others in the group as you come to supervision? Clare and Steve explore power in this must listen to episode.
Clare and Steve explore hiding in supervision and also in our coaching. Sometimes consciously; sometimes out of awareness
Have your curiosity nodules stimulated and your not knowing muscles tested, as our podcasters, and guest Steve Chapman, explore not knowing, experimentation and a relationship built on vulnerability and trust
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Looking for a coach supervisor?
If you are interested in joining a supervision group with Steve, or working 1-2-1 with him, contact him here to discuss what would work for you.
Also, we would love to hear from you if you have a topic you would like to hear Steve and Clare explore in a future podcast episode.
for those looking to develop internal organisational coaching capability …
There are many training courses for coaches. Most are designed for people setting out to run their own coaching business.
at idcoach we view this differently and offer affordable bespoke training designed specifically for internal coaches
At idcoach our training recognises the role and context for the internal coach, right from the start.
At idcoach our training is designed to develop coaches to work professionally, effectively and ethically within their organisation.
At idcoach our bespoke training is designed with you and your organisation in mind. We will work with your trainers and coaches so that you have a sustainable cost effective programme you can run and re-run.
idcoach can work with you to fully accredit the training with the Association for Coaching .
If you’re interested in developing and running accredited coach training for your coaches, please contact us here
for independent coaches …
idcoach offers regular workshops to build on your cpd.
These include such topics as
working with the system / systemic constellations
neuro linguistic programming (nlp)
working content free
working with images and metaphor
working outside in nature…
To see our workshop schedule, check out our diary here
If you’re interested in exploring cpd options, please contact us here
as a leader, are you asking yourself one or more of these questions?
How do I create a coaching culture in my organisation?
I want to develop an internal coaching capability … but where do I start?
How can I save money on executive coaching but retain all the benefits?
How do I get the benefits of coaching felt by more of my employees, without blowing the budget?
How do I help my employees to reach their full potential?
How do I raise the bar for my existing internal coaches? Professionalise, support and develop their practice?
How do I support my leaders and managers to take a coaching approach to their roles and be better able to coach and develop their teams?
Whether you’re simply curious or already determined, maybe you simply want to
talk through your thinking?
get some guidance, draw on some wisdom?
explore your options?
just get started?
accelerate?
At idcoach we can guide you in setting up your coaching capability. We can bring experience, wisdom and knowledge. We can highlight choices, possibilities and options you will have.
idcoach can help you develop your business case or align your thinking to the strategic priorities of your business.
at idcoach we can offer a full range of professional development and support for your internal coaches – whether it be bespoke accredited internal coach training, ongoing development and cpd programmes, supervision for your coaches to enhance and build their coaching practice, or even coaching your coaches.
idcoach can help you build a coaching culture in your organisation.
at idcoach we believe that internal coaches add both individual and organisational value to your business – we can guide you in maximising both, balancing the needs of the hidden dynamics of your organisational system.
“I have been fortunate to have been coached by Steve and also been on the receiving end of his wisdom as I developed myself as a coach through the Partnership’s coaching programme, which Steve was instrumental in designing and leading. Steve has an enormous amount of experience to pull on. He uses an amazing variety of coaching techniques and models but it’s his ability to ask the most searching and challenging questions getting to the heart of an issue but in a way that is immensely supportive that enables a coachee to make huge breakthroughs. I can’t recommend him highly enough.”
The award recognises work inside the organisation, championing coaching and raising standards, as well as a contribution to the profession more broadly. The latter recognised my work with Inside Out – a cross company coaching collaboration and also my contribution through the Future of Coaching Collaboration (FCC) with industry representatives including coach accreditation bodies, academics and leading organisations.
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