SUPERVISION COACHING

1-on-1 advice package

Overview

Our coaching helps individual supervisors to give better supervision and enhance satisfaction and joy with their supervisory activity. 

Supervision coaching gives the opportunity to analyse and solve an individual supervision problem, or can simply be used as a tool to improve leadership skills and supervisory quality. 

Whether you are new to supervision or very experienced, coaching can be used to address your specific and individual requirements. Coaching often helps to quickly solve a problem or dilemma, which may seem unsolvable or has made you stuck for a long time. During the coaching process, you’ll discover pathways to solutions which can be implemented straight away and often bring surprisingly fast and positive changes.

How we work

In the coaching process, you’ll set goals carefully and explicitly for what you want to achieve. During the coaching sessions, you’re guided to reflect on and eventually reframe current situations, habits and behaviour. Where applicable, our coach also complements the process with input about supervisory techniques and practices in order to enhance your skills. We facilitate finding a solution with your specific context e.g. university regulations, status of PhD candidates, and cultural or ethical backgrounds in mind. 

Our initial coaching trajectory includes 3-sessions, with optional follow-up sessions. The coaching process follows the recommendations and quality criteria of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. Our coach maintains complete confidentiality about any information that is exchanged in the coaching process.

Coaching mode

The Supervisory Coaching will be offered in 1.5-hour long sessions that are virtually held via video-conferencing tools.

Target group

  • PhD supervisors who experience difficulties in the supervision process or those who want to improve their supervisory and leadership skills..

About the Instructor

Bärbel Tress (PhD) is an enthusiastic Research Career Expert, has researched and taught at various universities and research institutes across Europe, served as an Associate Editor for an international peer-reviewed journal, and regularly has supervised students herself. For 15+ years, she has coached and advised PhD students from all fields to help them get successfully complete their PhD projects on time. She is a graduate of Heidelberg University (D), obtained a PhD in Landscape Ecology from Roskilde University (DK), and worked as researcher and lecturer at universities in Wageningen (NL) and Aberdeen (UK).

Bärbel Tress

Level

PhD supervisors

Available

On demand

Participants

1 supervisor

Duration

1 h video session

Instructor

Dr. Bärbel Tress

Mode

Live virtual