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.




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.




Learning Through Supervision and Mentorship to Support the Development of Infants, Toddlers and Their Families


Book Description

Eighteen work group papers, several of which previously appeared in "Zero to Three," the Bulletin of the National Center for Infant Clinical Progams, are presented under four headings. Under the heading "Findings and Recommendations of ZERO TO THREE/National center for Clinical Infant Programs' Work Group on Supervision and Mentorship" are the following papers: (1) "Learning through Supervision and Mentorship To Support the Development of Infants, Toddlers and Their Families"; (2) "Overcoming Obstacles to Reflective Supervision and Mentorship"; (3) "Improving Training of Infant/Family Practitioners through Supervision and Mentorship: An Action Agenda". Under the heading "Supervision and Mentorship of Students" are: (4) "The Supervisory Relationship: Integrator, Resource and Guide" (R. S. Shanok); (5) "Individualizing Training for Early Intervention Practitioners" (C. W. Brown and E. K. Thorp); (6) "Passing on the Process: Reflections of a Supervisee and a Supervisor" (K. Bateman and E. K. Thorp); (7) "Scenes from Supervision" (J. Pekarsky); (8) "A Review of Infant/Toddler Issues in Supervision and Mentorship Based on Instruction of the Mentor Teacher Class" (J. Perry); (9) "A Clinical Approach to the Training of Supervisors: The Model of Co-Supervision" (K. D. Pruett). Under the heaing "Supervision and Mentorship of Infant/Family Practitioners" are: (10) "The Professionalization of Early Motherhood" (W. M. Schafer); (11) "Supervision as a Catalyst in the Evolution of an Integrated Infant Mental Health/Developmental Intervention Program" (B. Ivins and N. Sweet); (12) "The Professional Use of Self in Prevention" (J. Bertacchi and J. Coplon); (13) "Lay Home Visiting Programs: Strengths, Tensions, and Challenges" (M. Larner and R. Halpern); (14) "A Developmental/Relationship In-Service Training Model for Public Health Nurses Serving Multirisk Infants and Families" (S. Wieder, R. Drachman, and T. DeLeo). Under the heading "Issues for Supervisors and Program Directors" are: (15) "Supervision and the Management of Programs Serving Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families" (L. Gilkerson and C. L. Young-Holt); (16) "Management in the South Carolina Resource Mothers' Program: The Importance of Supervision" (M. A. Robinson); (17) "Toward Tenacity of Commitment: Understanding and Modifying Institutional Practices and Individual Responses that Impede Work with Multi-Problem Families" (B. Fields); and (18) "A Seminar for Supervisors in Infant/Family Programs: Growing versus Paying More for Staying the Same" (J. Bertacchi and F. M. Stott). Appendixes include a qualitative study of early intervention in Maryland and a 50-item bibliography. (SLD)







Effective Leadership, Management and Supervision in Health and Social Care


Book Description

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.




Effective Supervision in Social Work


Book Description

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.




A Supervisor's Guide to Safety Leadership


Book Description

A safe work place takes a coordinated effort on the part of all employees. Senior leaders establish safety-oriented vision and values, middle managers put into effect safety management systems, procedures, and accountability, and frontline employees complete the work as safely as possible. Frontline supervisors have perhaps the most crucial role¿they are the "linchpins" of safety. This book gives supervisors practical tools to improve their safety management and safety leadership.




Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development


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In this second edition of Improving Instruction Through Supervision, Evaluation, and Professional Development we’ve maintained the conceptual framework while updating sections to provide the most recent research on instructional strategies that have the most promise of helping all students learn. Modifications of the law resulting from the reauthorization of the 50-year-old Elementary and Secondary Education Act—Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (2015)—and their implication for practice are embedded throughout this new edition. Updated data collection tools for classroom observations are also provided. We included a link to a website that contains all the observation tools in electronic format so that observers can have the opportunity to collect data on a tablet or laptop, save the observation data as a PDF file and e-mail those data to the teacher observed. This new edition recognizes the reality that all principals are responsible for supervision, evaluation, and professional development of their teachers—tasks that are neither simple nor without conflict. The primary audience of this text is aspiring and practicing principals. We hope to help them understand both the theory and practice of supervision, evaluation, and professional development. However, observing instruction, collecting data for reflection, and having conversations about teaching, are not the sole provinces of principals. Master teachers, teacher leaders, and teacher colleagues can also benefit from the supervisory sections of the book, especially the chapters on high-quality instruction, improving instruction, and the classroom data collecting tools. The book provides numerous tools specifically designed to collect a variety of data in classrooms to improve instruction. Embedded in each chapter are exercises to apply Theory into Practice by responding to a set of questions posed by the key issues of the chapter. After the explication and illustration of the key concepts and principles of the chapter, actual Instructional Leadership Challenges as described by a successful practicing principal for reflection and analysis.




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.