Coaching supervision

What is it?
Are you a practicing coach who doesn’t receive regular supervision? Do you occasionally need to talk through an issue regarding an existing coachee in a safe and professional environment? Do you wonder how well you operate as a coach and want feedback from an objective viewpoint?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes” then you may benefit from receiving regular coaching supervision. The Association for Coaching Code of Ethics requires that coaches have “regular consultative support for their work” and many corporate clients are now demanding that regular supervision is undertaken by all coaches that it employs.  Karen Tidswell is an experienced and qualified coach, having a Certificate in Coaching and a Diploma in Performance Coaching. She is also a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over 20 years of experience and has been supervising coaches for over 2 years.  

What are the benefits?
Benefits depend on the specific nature of the coaching but can include:

  • Objective feedback on your coaching practice.
  • Meeting ethical and professional best practice.
  • Increased skills and confidence. 
Learning styles assessment

What is it?
Do you know the most effective way for you to learn? Can you learn from any learning opportunity?

If the answer to either of these questions is “no” then you may benefit from understanding your preferred learning style. Cedar ADS can offer you a paper based or on-line assessment of your learning style via the Practical Learning Styles Questionnaire. Please visit the home page and click on “links” to find out more.

What are the benefits?
Understanding your learning style can help you in the following ways:

  • Better planning of your development opportunities to suit your preferred learning style.
  • Maximising your learning on formal training events.
  • Developing your less preferred styles will enable you to get the most from a wider range of learning events. 
Psychometric assessment & feedback

What is it?
Do you want to know what environments motivate you the best? Do you need a clear idea of your strengths and development areas? Do you want to understand your typical behavioural style? Do you want to know what your colleagues and customers think of your performance?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes” then you may benefit from Psychometric Assessment and Feedback. Depending on your agenda for feedback, Cedar ADS can offer 360 degree feedback, customer surveys and a psychometric assessment of your abilities, personality, motivation and interests. An experienced Psychologist will administer and feedback a combination of assessments to give you detailed and objective information to meet your goal.

What are the benefits?
Benefits depend on the specific reason for the assessment but can include:

  • Increased understanding of strengths and development areas.
  • Objective data to inform career decisions.
  • Preparation and practice for selection or promotion events.
  • Objective and skilled feedback to enable you to understand your impact on others.
Team audit

What is it?
Do you have a team that is dysfunctional but don’t know why? Do you want to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a particular team? Does your top team have the necessary skills and approach necessary to achieve your business vision?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then it may be useful to audit the skills, personality and potential of specific teams. Cedar ADS can use a range of psychometric tools to help you to understand the capability and make up of a team. Workshops and individual feedback can ensure that the team understands its strengths and where it will need to change in order to achieve the necessary business results.

What are the benefits?
Benefits depend on the specific nature of the team audit but can include:

  • Higher performing teams.
  • Recognition of different team members’ contributions.
  • Increased ability to plan effectively to meet changing demands.
Training design & delivery

What is it?
Are your employees trained to enable them to do their jobs effectively? Are they effective interviewers? Can they access and use ability tests? Can your managers coach the best from their employees? If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then we may be able to help you to improve the skills of your workforce in the following areas:

  • Competency based or selection interviewing.
  • Test Administration Training (leading to a BPS approved qualification) Level A.
  • Occupational Testing training and assessment (leading to a BPS approved qualification).
  • Coaching skills.

What are the benefits?
Training employees in the areas defined above can give the following benefits:

  • More consistent and fair interviewing practice leading to better quality “hires”.
  • Using ability tests locally to test specific abilities reduces the cost of psychometric testing and increases the quality of “hires”.
  • Managers who coach their teams leads to increased performance and job satisfaction.
Development centre design & delivery

What is it?
How well do you identify talent? How well do you develop talent? Are your employees clear about where they make their greatest impact and where they could benefit from development? If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then we may be able to help you to design and deliver a development centre to identify and develop talent within your organisation. Cedar ADS can design the whole development centre or individual elements (such as role plays and group exercises). We can provide comprehensive psychometric assessment and feedback. We can provide trained and highly experienced assessors, psychologists and coaches to assess participants and provide them with high quality feedback and coaching.

What are the benefits?
Implementing a comprehensive and effective development centre can give the following benefits:

  • Identification and development of talent to enable them to adapt to and excel in rapidly changing environments.
  • Objective and accurate feedback of strengths and development needs.
  • Increased employee satisfaction and therefore better retention of talent.
Assessment centre design & delivery

What is it?
Are you certain that your method of assessment has selected the best person for the role? Does your assessment centre comply with current legislation and best practice? Are your assessors appropriately trained and experienced?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then we may be able to help you to design and deliver a comprehensive and fair assessment centre. Cedar ADS can design the whole assessment centre or individual elements (such as role plays and group exercises). We can either supply off the shelf assessments or design bespoke materials. We can either provide trained and experienced assessors, interviewers & test administrators or train your internal staff.

What are the benefits?
Implementing a fair, relevant and comprehensive assessment centre can give the following benefits:

  • Greater productivity, due to the selection of effective employees.
  • Increased employee satisfaction and therefore better retention of talent.
  • Fairness and legal compliance.
  • Positive organisational PR and therefore ability to attract talent.
Selection & assessment process design & delivery

What is it?
Do you always recruit effective employees? Are you certain you have selected the best person for the role? Do you comply with current legislation when you assess and select candidates for roles?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then you may benefit from a review of your selection and assessment methods. Cedar ADS can help you to design selection processes, design bespoke assessments, provide trained and experienced assessors & test administrators, train your employees to assess and interview effectively, audit your selection processes and methods to ensure they are effective, fair and consistent with current legislation.

What are the benefits?
Implementing high quality selection and assessment processes can give the following benefits:

  • Greater productivity, due to the selection of effective employees.
  • Increased employee satisfaction and therefore better retention of talent.
  • Fairness and legal compliance.
  • Positive organisational PR and therefore ability to attract talent.
Job analysis

What is it?
Do your employees know what is required of them in their jobs? Are they clear about what behaviours, skills and attitudes they need to display in order to carry out their role effectively? Are your managers clear about how to assess the performance of their teams?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then you probably need to carry out a job analysis.

What are the benefits?
Having agreed Job Descriptions, Person Specifications and Selection Criteria in place for each role allows your organisation to be more effective at:

  • Assessing suitability for a role and therefore selecting and promoting the best candidates.
  • Developing the skills of employees in their current roles or to ready them for promotion.
  • Developing and implementing Performance Appraisal, Development Planning and Incentive & Reward Schemes.
  • Succession Planning.
  • Training Needs Analysis.
Team building

What is it?
Do your teams work effectively together? Do they know what roles they each play to contribute to the success of the business?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then teambuilding may be an option to help you to obtain cohesive and effective teams. Cedar ADS can provide a teambuilding event based on your specific objectives: whether it is to provide a fun and motivational event or a more focussed exploration of the workings of a particular team.

What are the benefits?
Benefits depend on the specific nature of the team building event but can include:

  • Increases morale and leadership skills.
  • Clearly defines goals and objectives.
  • Improves communication.
  • Identifies team strengths and weaknesses.
  • Cohesive teams are more productive teams.
Performance coaching

What is it?
Are you performing at your best? Are you motivated and confident at work? Are you maximising your potential in your career? Are you happy with you work – life balance?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then you may benefit from performance (or executive) coaching. Karen Tidswell is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an Association for Coaching Accredited Coach. Coaching goals and performance outcomes are agreed at the start of the coaching process and sessions typically last 90-120 minutes. The method and process is tailored to the individual needs of the coachee and progress is reviewed after every session.

What are the benefits?
Benefits depend on the specific nature of the coaching goal but can include:

  • Increased confidence, motivation and leadership skills.
  • Increased ability to organise and delegate workload.
  • Better career planning and work-life balance
  • Greater problem solving and decision making ability.
  • More strategic awareness and ability to influence key stakeholders.
Competency frameworks

What is it?
Does your organisation have a common and consistent definition of the behaviours it requires of its employees in the workplace? Does it effectively communicate the values and culture that it wants to embed? Is performance fairly and consistently measured across the organisation? Do individual objectives flow from organisational ones?

If the answer to any of these questions is “no” then you may benefit from designing a competency framework for your organisation. This will enable your organisation to have a standardised and measurable way of defining the valued and required behaviours that it believes will contribute to its long term success.

What are the benefits?
Using a bespoke competency framework will enable your organisation to:

  • Define clear objectives and performance criteria for all employees.
  • Design transparent, fair and standardised appraisal and recruitment processes.
  • Audit the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation, a department or a team.


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