8-session programme, limited to 14 participants, starting March 14, 2025
New! - Live Public Cohort available from mid-March to mid-May 2025.
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The change-maker supervision lab is a facilitated supervision lab for leaders, practitioners, and professionals who drive change in their organisations and clients.
Being a change-maker in organisations is complex and can sometimes feel incredibly lonely. You can see many things that need to be addressed, and you sometimes may even face apathy and resistance from the people you are trying to help.
Change is not an entirely rational activity; you have to compose with the people element. Context and practice are everything. Consequently, discussing and reflecting on the practice when working as a change-maker is essential. Applying the concepts effectively is more important than learning new ones. This is what a supervision lab achieves.
The focus is on sharing experiences and challenges from real-world practices. The group setup plays a network effect in bringing a diversity of perspectives and creating effective progress of your knowledge, skills and impact.
People are finally realising that training and certifications have not resulted in adequate adoption and performance in Agile. Skilful application and mastery in practice are the only success measures that matter, and they are the focus of group and one-to-one supervision. If you want to advance your competencies, supervision should be the next step you take.
Details of the cohort
Who is this service for?
Change and transformation executives and directors,
Systemic coaches,
Professional coaches working in change engagements,
Seasoned Agile and digital change coaches,
Agile delivery managers,
RTEs, Tribe leads, senior scrum masters,
Product owners,
Team leaders,
Etc.
Why join a supervision lab?
Coaches nurture their coaching practice continually by engaging in supervision. Since coaching is a reflective practice, coaches progress by regularly pausing and thinking about their practice in individual or group settings.
Modern leaders and practitioners use coaching competencies, especially those working with Agile teams. Developing such leadership does not happen by attending training or earning a certification but through continuous practice. Supervision stimulates the reflective process and accelerates the development of new competencies in day-to-day practice.
So, if you want to capitalise on the qualifications you achieved or if you want to develop your learning from practical situations, Supervision groups are the next step in your competency development.
Learning outcomes
Improve your leadership - Your competencies only matter when they transform into skilled action. We shift the focus from theory to pragmatic application, using real-world reflections to develop true mastery.
Stimulate collaboration - Learn to create, sustain, and evolve a collaborative team environment. We'll also sharpen your systemic coaching skills to drive intentionality in your leadership.
Improve team performance - Elevate team performance by fostering psychological safety and promoting dynamic, open interactions. Build a supportive environment where effective collaboration thrives.
Boost Agile effectiveness - Foster a culture of adaptability and agility by encouraging open, dynamic collaboration. Create a culture of continuous improvement where teams can thrive and deliver value faster.
Prerequisites to join the cohort
There are no knowledge or certification prerequisites to join the cohort. It is open to people from all horizons and backgrounds. You only need to bring a change challenge you are grappling with as a leader or as a practitioner.
As the Supervision cohorts are based on learning from practice, it is key that the participants all bring their real-life situations to focus on the practices of change.
You do not need to be a senior leader to participate in this cohort. Still, you will be expected to proactively influence your situation based on the insights and new perspectives that will emerge from participating in this cohort. The learnings will help you do this from any role in the team or the organisation system.
Logistics
The programmes run virtually from our Platform for Continuous Change. They will use Zoom for video conferencing. Communications will be from this platform, and the group is welcome to interact and discuss topics between sessions.
The sessions' dates are advertised at sign-up, and we aim to run them as advertised. You must follow this schedule.
You can also book additional one-to-one sessions at an extra cost. If you need a mix of group and individual advisory or coaching sessions, please enquire for a quote.
For professional coaches, we can confirm your attendance at a supervision programme so that you can claim supervision hours. Our programmes are generally run by qualified ICF coaches who meet the criteria for offering qualifying supervision. Please enquire if you need such confirmation.
Schedule of the Cohort
Format of the progamme
The cohort comprises an introduction session and seven core sessions at the rate of a fortnightly session (arranged around main holidays and UK Bank holidays). The schedule of dates and times is advertised with each instance we run, so you know the dates up-front.
The first session introduces the cohort and participants. We then run a hexi exercise to review your challenging change topics and establish their coverage throughout the cohort. The focus can, therefore, vary from one cohort to the next, but it is always centred around change and creating Flow. Occasionally, we may run more specifically focused cohorts, for instance, on LeanTech Excellence or Strategy.
During the sessions, you process and learn from the context you bring and the multiple contexts others share. Unleashing the landscape of diverse situations accelerates your leadership development.
Format of the sessions
Sessions are highly dynamic and will run at pace:
90 min each,
Sessions start with a check-in reviewing the success of previous actions,
The facilitator then shares an educational point on the topic of the day,
Two participants take turns to be in the 'hot seat' for 30 minutes and we stimulate interaction as per our supervision techniques,
We limit the number of participants to fourteen, enabling every participant to be in the 'hot seat' at least once. Of course, you learn equally from other people's challenges and participants' interactions.
The session wraps by reviewing the collective learnings and logging a commitment to action.
