Business & Executive Leadership Coaching and Coaching Supervision
I'm Alan Wingrove, an experienced business & executive leadership coach and coaching supervisor - see Blue Lion Coaching
I am conducting doctoral research into the coaching supervision for internal coaches, with the objective of promoting the development of evidence based coaching through establishing a coaching supervision framework for internal coaches.
My intention is to record my ‘journey’ with articles and updates which I hope coaches, coaching supervisors and academics alike will find useful and worthy of discussion.
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Should I stay, or should I go? Follow my supervisor or swap?
I started my PhD at the University of Portsmouth, where I have been very happy. At the end of last year my PhD supervisor, Dr

First-named author….
I have got my first ‘first-named author’ academic paper published today (3rd August 2020). It is titled ‘Self-determination theory: A theoretical framework for group supervision

What would I do differently?
I am fast approaching my Major Review – and I’m expecting one of the questions to be, “What would you have done differently?” Well, there

Where did that year go?
So much for me making regular updates to my PhD journey, as I have just realised that it is a YEAR since I did my

A systematic review
My first piece of ‘proper research’ is a systematic review of the literature about coaching supervision in organisations. The idea being to find out how

A first hurdle….
On 18th October I did my first Poster Presentation, at the International Society of Coaching Psychologists (ISCP) conference in London. When my supervisor suggested that

How hard can this be?
If you are thinking of applying for any form of post-graduate study – and don’t want to make the same mistakes as me – focus.

Serendipity is a great thing.
In my last blog, I said that I would explain how a bit of serendipity helped me. My learning from this was to keep an

Stop – before you start….
If you are thinking of embarking on any research programme, please learn from some of my experience – including my mistakes. From my coaching supervision