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WITHOUT RESEARCH NO DEVELOPMENT AND NO PROFESSIONALISATION!
are more and more conceived as ‘a scientifically based, practice oriented and
ethically linked concept of individual and organisational consulting activities
within the working world”.
In later years, this definition has begun to have a specific impact on the
contracting phase of supervision processes as well as on coaching. Integration
of organisational matters like ‘core business and core competences of
the organisation’, ‘mission/mandate/charge of the organisation” and “the
assignment (and concurrent job description) of the supervisee/coachee” have to
be clearly mentioned. ‘Triangulation’, i.e. clarification of the needs and wishes
of the supervisee/coachee to be managed by the supervisor/coach, has now
become ‘state of the art’.
Consequently, supervisors and coaches additionally need specific socio¬
scientific knowledge. This includes:
s Basic knowledge about organisations, such as types and concepts,
organisational dynamics and development phases, and changing
processes;
s A specific mode of knowledge application to analyse formal phenomena
and interior structures within organisations;
+ Diagnostic models of the relationship between environment and
organisation as well as action models of conflict management, to enhance
the efficiency of decision making processes, to avoid wasting human
resources, to develop creativity and to increase commitment. And not to
forget: minimal knowledge of the development of a ‘learning organisation’
is an important requirement as well.
+ Basic knowledge of the (political) idea, history, definitions, concepts and
perceptions of both the phenomenon as well as the term “work” (“Arbeit”,
“Labour”).
These necessities lead us to the conclusion that integration of different areas of
knowledge should be a main aim of supervision and coaching in our days, which
needs active and mutually reciprocal networking between different approaches
of knowledge, with the intention to facilitate mutual clarification and to deal
with complex interpretations of the contingent phenomoma practitioners
encounter in practice, as well as to correct one-sidedness and dogmatism
2 See Jorg Fellermann - Annette Lentze - Manfred Leppers (eds.), Supervision, Ein Beitrag zur
Qualifizierung beruflicher Arbeit, Köln, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Supervision e.V., 2012, 8.
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