As professional business mentors we aspire to be the best we can possibly be at our chosen vocation. Elevate your mentoring practice by discussing the ups and downs of your mentoring case load in confidence with a qualified mentoring supervisor. Reflective practice is a core part of ABM membership and the ABM Code of Conduct, with supervision encouraged at Affiliate and Member level, and mandatory at Fellow.
Supervision is the formal opportunity for mentors to share their caseload in confidence on a one-to-one or group basis. At the ABM several of our experienced mentors are also qualified supervisors. You can find their details here.
Supervision is one method of how mentors can stay at the peak of their game. One approach adopted by many supervisors is 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
The restorative function is concerned with supporting the mentor to recover after being absorbed within client emotional situations.
The formative function tackles the skills, knowledge and practise of mentoring with the objective to support the mentor to be more effective at their work.
This final function tackles the subject of professional standards in mentoring, including issues such as boundary settings and ethical questions.
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.
Book a free discovery call with a supervisor to learn more about supervision and how it could positively impact your mentoring practice.
Please note the ABM is not liable for the supervision that mentors have. The ABM only encourages and sign posts to qualified supervisors.
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".
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.