Successful Supervision and Leadership


Book Description

Around the world, hundreds of thousands of supervisors and leaders provide coaching, supervision and leadership to staff every day of the year, yet the majority of supervisors have never attended formal training about how to be an effective supervisor and leader. The majority of supervisors do not refresh their skills, knowledge and capabilities to remain up to date or evaluate their supervisory practice regularly. Supervision is fundamental to ensure that employees meet the requirements of their role, feel supported and valued, and engage in ongoing growth and development. When supervision is effective, it reduces stress, fatigue and burnout. Supervision ensures that employees reflect on their work to maintain high performance and it supports well-being as a professional. This latest book is an essential guide for experienced supervisors and leaders. It is a comprehensive book demonstrating how to provide effective supervision and leadership in the modern workplace. It assists leaders to understand the industrial and ethical context in which supervision is provided, how to evaluate the effectiveness of supervision, and shows supervisors and leaders the specific capabilities that are necessary to be a quality leader and supervisor. This book is a must-read for any supervisor or leader who wants to provide effective supervision and leadership. Each chapter provides valuable information and the latest research on supervision with reflective questions to guide supervisors in their thinking and learning about supervision.




Effective Leadership, Management and Supervision in Health and Social Care


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This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the areas of leadership, management and supervision for line managers, supervisors and senior practitioners Taking a problem-solving approach, the book explores different aspects of leadership and management including personal effectiveness, managing and leading supervision, managing training and development, managing resources and leading and developing a team. A precise review of each project area is linked to a set of audit tools that a manager can mobilise in order to review team and personal effectiveness and develop practice.




The DUH! Book of Management and Supervision


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"Managerial styles are influenced by habit, familiarity, and workplace culture. It's no wonder that well-intentioned professionals doing their best to be good organizational leaders often repeat unhelpful supervisory practices experienced in their early careers, even if they disliked them at the time. In the DUH! Book of Management and Supervision, the author disagrees with many accepted leadership principles (unabashedly referring to them as myths) and makes new and different approaches easier to imagine. Her challenging and controversial concepts illustrated with poignant stories suggest common-sense and immediately applicable alternatives more suitable in today's workplace"--Back cover.




Effective Supervision in Social Work


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It is vital that social work managers and leaders are able to deliver and manage effective supervision to their teams. Recent social work reports such as the Munro Review into Child Protection (2011) identified poor supervision as a barrier to good and effective social work practice and highlighted the need for quality supervision to become embedded within departments. This book demonstrates how both managers and their staff can engage with supervision with a view to successful outcomes. There are detailed sections on audit tasks and reflection questions to enable readers to increase awareness of their role as well as develop action plans for improvement in their practice.




Effective Supervision


Book Description

Containing ten years of experience, this complete "seminar in a book" includes success tips for supervisors, and "hands-on, real-world" activities that teach the many and varied skills necessary for success in today's workplace. It develops individuals who know not only about supervision, but who know how to supervise. Chapter topics cover leadership, facilitating change, communication, ethics, motivation, decision making and problem solving, performance appraisal, employee complaints, workplace violence, legal issues, training, health and safety, staffing, and team building and teamwork. For supervisors, team leaders, and work coaches--for on-the-job training, business and industry seminars, and distance learning.




Police Leadership & Supervision


Book Description

Leadership is the most important part of an organization's success. As a leader, your ability to influence others is the key to getting things done. Effective leadership builds morale in an organization, successful prosecution of crime, defense from liability, and improves a department's level of trust and participation with the communities it serves. Among the topics covered in the book are: * Leadership without title - how to lead others even if you don't have rank * Empathy and how to see things from the point of view of others * Influence and how to get those you lead to follow you * Values and how they impact the decisions people make * Generationalism and how it impacts employees * Motivating employees to get the job done to the best of their abilities * Affability and how to be liked and respected by others * Trust and how it impacts your ability to lead * Accountability and how to correct bad behaviors by employees * Retention and how you can help keep great employees




Leadership Coaching, Mentoring, Counselling Or Supervision? One Way Is Not Enough


Book Description

This book outlines a highly practical integrated approach to leader support which has been widely utilised across multiple sectors. In addition to outlining the varied modalities of one-to-one support (counselling, supervision, coaching and mentoring), it challenges the notion that such approaches alone can provide the individual with the confidential support which leaders need. Instead, the book offers an action research based 'Leadership Inquiry Support' (LIS) model which holistically integrates multiple modalities of support alongside a strong developmental process. Central to this model is dedication to authentic collaboration in the support relationship. Detail is also provided on how to create such a relationship in non-controlling, non-avoiding, dialogical ways. Furthermore, this text explores a number of tricky issues, including how those facilitating LIS gain support for themselves and keep themselves safe, the evaluation of LIS, and consideration of ethical, cultural and context variables. This is not a 'quick-fix' solution book, but rather a deep and holistic exploration of implementation strategies for LIS backed up by research and real-world, practical experience.




Supervision Matters


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Supervision is a critical function of leadership that is often overlooked, and yet the quality of supervision is often what makes or breaks a leader—and an organization. Supervision Matters is full of bite-size ideas for how to become a more effective supervisor, including advice on how to be clear about expectations, giving helpful feedback, manage yourself, and more. Each chapter is structured around how you approach a part of your work as a supervisor: how you talk, how you think about others, how you run meetings, how you lead, and more. Whether you’re a front-line supervisor or a CEO, this book will help you sharpen your skills and improve morale by transforming your supervision skills into user-friendly tactics that work.




Developing Leadership Excellence


Book Description

Professional Supervision is a core component of maintaining accreditation for many professions particularly in the community and human services sector. Clinical professions such as Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Teachers, Nurses, Midwives, Doctors, Counsellors and Psychologists are all required or encouraged to access professional supervision regularly as part of maintaining professional standards in their roles, self-care and role accountability. Professional supervision is the most effective space to reflect on practice, engage in ongoing growth and development as well as ensure effective client outcomes. Within the helping, teaching and human service sectors, managers are increasingly being expected to provide some form of supervision for employees in both their professional and administrative streams, however very few training providers and resources exist to help support managers and supervisors to develop their supervisory skills or provide them with a clear framework to implement supervision. As a business and HR consulting and training professional, Tracey Harris has developed a systematic framework that ensures supervision remains effective and sustainable over time. As part of the supervision platform and system, Tracey has developed a range of unique resources, tools and documents for beginning supervisory practitioners to assist them to develop the necessary skills to be effective in their new role. She has developed seven integrated supervision models that provide a common language framework for all roles in the organisational and business context. Developing Supervisory Excellence: A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor provides those new to the supervision role and process with an evidence based integrated framework, supervision model and resources to conduct effective professional supervision. It is unique and the first text of its kind to integrate the existing frameworks of supervision into a comprehensive model of practice, providing a clear procedural guide for conducting professional and operational supervision. In addition, it provides new supervisors with a range of administrative resources to support, record, track and evaluate the supervision process.




Inclusive Supervision in Student Affairs


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Inclusive Supervision in Student Affairs provides a new, action-oriented model that addresses what supervisors should do to create more inclusive environments for all staff and to help inform socially just practice. Grounded in theory and research and framed through the lens of continuous professional development and personal growth, this book helps Student Affairs professionals at all levels develop effective leadership skills that demonstrate multicultural competence. Providing a conceptual model and self-assessment tool to enhance professionals’ preparation for supervision, this book also helps readers reflect upon their own capacity to enact an inclusive supervisory approach through the use of case studies and end-of-chapter questions.