Chapters I have contributed to books

Since 2013, I have contributed chapters on coaching supervision to a number of books. This page lists the book and chapter details, with links to where they can be ordered on Amazon.

Full Spectrum Supervision, 2013

The chapter I contributed to this book is entitled, ‘Coaching supervision – an ethical angle’. The chapter explores the ethical issues surrounding coaching supervision. I look at the types of incidents which arise during a wide range of coaching assignments, and explore why they happen, the role of the different stakeholders in coaching alliances, and how supervision can support coaches in managing themselves professionally and ethically.

The full reference for the chapter and the book is: Hodge, A. (2013), ‘Coaching supervision – an ethical angle’, in Edna Murdoch and Jackie Arnold, Full Spectrum Supervision: Who you are is how you supervise, Panoma Press, chapter 1, 1-32.

The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching, 2019

David Clutterbuck and I contributed a chapter for this book, ‘Supervising Team coaches: working with complexity at a distance’. The chapter explores team coach supervision from the perspectives of context, process, roles, methods and models, content (the issues that coaches bring to supervision) and competences. Given the complex demands of the practice of team coaching, here we look at how the coach adapts to working with multiple stakeholders, often all in the room at the same time, and how supervision supports the coach in this ongoing process.

The full reference for the chapter and the book is: Hodge, A. and Clutterbuck, D. (2019), ‘Supervising Team coaches: working with complexity at a distance’, in Clutterbuck, et al, The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching, Routledge, chapter 23, 331-342.

Coaching Supervision, 2019

Again working with David Clutterbuck, we jointly contributed a chapter for this book entitled, ‘Guidelines for team coaching supervision’. In the chapter, we draw on a scoping study to identify issues in team coaching supervision and our own experience to suggest practical guidelines for both team coaches and team coach supervisors. We explore the key tasks and elements involved in team coaching and thus the needs of the practitioners to support them in the complex and demanding practice of team coaching. Team coaches are looking to gain awareness and clarity in what may be happening within the whole client system as they navigate through the often unpredictable path that such assignments elicit. The chapter includes the first iteration of my map, Mapping the complex territory of team coaching and supervision (2018), which plots the factors that coach and supervisor may seek to explore and understand in the process of this work.

The full reference for the chapter and the book is: Hodge, A. and Clutterbuck, D. (2019), ‘Guidelines for team coaching supervision’, in Birch, J. and Welch, P., Coaching Supervision: Advancing Practice, Changing Landscapes, Routledge, chapter 11, 161-175.

Coaching & Mentoring Supervision, 2021

The chapter I contributed to this book is entitled, ‘Supervising team coaches’. In it, I look at three key areas within the field in which the practice of team coaching supervision is developing. The chapter aims to raise awareness of the following issues: the challenges of supervising in a practice context that is still as yet to be fully understood; the diverse factors that may arise from the complex territory of team coaching with its interconnected, interdependent elements that the team coach brings to supervision; the team coaching supervisor’s capacity and capability to create a container for the supervisee as well as what informs the development of team coaching supervisors and their practice. The chapter includes the more recent iteration of my map of the territory of team coaching.

The full reference for the chapter and the book is: Hodge, A. (2021), ‘Supervising team coaches’, in Bachkirova, T., Jackson, P. and Clutterbuck, D., Coaching & Mentoring Supervision: Theory and Practice, Open University Press, 2nd edition, chapter 21, 254-265.

Team Coaching, 2023

I contributed a chapter, ‘Team Coaching Supervision’ for this book. In the chapter I explore four significant areas within the emerging field of team coaching. I also discuss the increasingly relevant role that supervision plays to support team coaches in their development as practitioners in their work with their client teams. The chapter looks at the context in which team coaches practise, the demands facing the team coach, the role of supervision and ‘mapping the territory’ – a method that enables the team coach with their supervisor to reflect on their practice, again drawing on the map I have created.

The full reference for the chapter and the book is: Hodge, A. (2023), ‘Team Coaching Supervision’, in Derlopas, A., Team Coaching: Mastering the Art of Synergy, independently published, chapter 8, 402-429.