Effective Supervision

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.

Using features such as case studies, exercises and points for reflection, this is an ideal introduction to managing the supervisory relationship for both trainee and supervisor. This second edition of the book formerly titled Counselling Supervision now covers new and contemporary areas of supervision such as ethical maturity, insights into supervision from neuroscience, the organisational demands from the various contexts in which supervision takes place. It widens the concept of supervision to include professions such as coaching, organisational development consulting, counselling and psychology.

In Effective Supervision, Robert J. Marzano, Tony Frontier, and David Livingston show school and district-level administrators how to set the priorities and support the practices that will help all teachers become expert teachers. Their five-part framework is based on what research tells us about how expertise develops. When these five conditions are attended to in a systematic way, teachers do improve their skills: * A well-articulated knowledge base for teaching * Opportunities for teachers to practice specific strategies or behaviors and to receive feedback * Opportunities for teachers to observe and discuss expertise * Clear criteria for success and help constructing professional growth and development plans * Recognition of the different stages of development progressing toward expertise. The focus is on developing a collegial atmosphere in which teachers can freely share effective practices with each other, observe one another's classrooms, and receive focused feedback on their teaching strategies. The constructive dynamics of this approach always keep in sight the aim of enhancing students' well-being and achievement. As the authors note, "The ultimate criterion for expert performance in the classroom is student achievement. Anything else misses the point."

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 By: Mike Williams, President, Greater Concepts by Design, LLC Being a good supervisor requires different skills than being a good worker. Mike Williams understands this. In Effective Supervision he shares techniques for new supervisors to become effective leaders of a productive team. A supervisor needs to able to plan, organize, and direct their team while creating and maintaining motivated personnel. Williams explains in clear and actionable detail how to develop the skills necessary to become a supervisor. Check sheets will help you evaluate your current skills, creating a unique training module to help you bring awareness and consistency into your business. From hiring staff to communicating expectations to planning policy, Williams gives detailed steps on how to move forward in the best possible way for your business. Effective supervisors are necessary for their business to survive and thrive. With a positive attitude and a willingness to put into practice the lessons from this book, you are on your way to becoming an effective supervisor.

This book is composed of twelve lessons that can be taught as a supervisor’s class so when they have completed all the lessons, they will be an effective supervisor. Each lesson is designed so the participant reads the information, is given an opportunity to discuss the material, and then answers questions at the end of each lesson that facilitates discussion to enhance the learning opportunity. The lessons are based on real-life situations that a supervisor encounters every day on the job with no theory, just straight-to-the-point information that the reader can understand and put into practice on their job.

This volume is a collection of essays dealing primarily with supervision by international organizations of, on the one hand, state behaviour and, on the other, the conduct of the organizations themselves. The first is termed external supervision, the second internal supervision. An extensive range of international organizations is covered, among them the ILO, the IMF, GATT and the United Nations.