Supervision for Success in Government
Supervision for Success in Government

Author: Dalton S. Lee

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 1994-02-25

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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Based on interviews with over 100 successful supervisors, managers, and administrators in a variety of public organizations, the book identifies the common pitfalls - at both the technical and interpersonal levels - that new supervisors face and offers firsthand advice on how to meet these new challenges.

Delegation and Supervision (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
Delegation and Supervision (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

Author: Brian Tracy

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0814433154

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When you can delegate and supervise well, you will not believe how efficient and easy managing your team can be. Managers’ performance reviews, their salary increases, and basically their fate within the company in general are judged by the results they deliver, yet those results are usually produced by a team of employees working under them. Thus, the most important and broad-reaching aspect of a manager’s job is the ability to delegate and supervise extremely well. In this book, success expert Brian Tracy reveals time-tested ways any manager can use to boost the performance and productivity of their employees. In Delegation & Supervision, Tracy shares helpful tips including how to: Define work, assign it, and set measurable, targeted standards for performance Match skills to job requirements Use Management by Objectives to delegate longer-term tasks to trusted team members Monitor, control, and keep on top of projects with minimum effort Turn delegation into a teaching tool and build the confidence of your staff Avoid reverse delegation Free up time for higher-level tasks only you can tackle, and more When done right, delegation and supervision will allow your employees to learn, grow, and become more capable. Delegation & Supervision shows you how to impress the higher-ups with all that you and your team accomplished.

Supervision
Supervision

Author: Carlene Cassidy

Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing

Published: 2009-02-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780324788839

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Future and current supervisors discover the keys to reaching their full potential and inspiring those working for them to achieve their best with Cassidy/Kreitner's SUPERVISION: SETTING PEOPLE UP FOR SUCCESS, INTERNATIONAL EDITION. This much-anticipated text emphasizes the skills that are most important to succeed in today's new economy, including exceptional communication and training skills and extraordinary people skills. To support the book's underlying theme of setting people up for success, each chapter emphasizes the most effective strategies and techniques for becoming a highly effective supervisor. The reader gains a solid understanding of the vast responsibilities today's supervisors face and how to best approach these responsibilities, including the management of growing diverse and virtual teams. The book's clear presentation incorporates engaging interviews, intriguing case studies, and extensive real-world examples to demonstrate how supervisors can spend more time setting their people up for success and less time controlling and disciplining. A unique skills-based Supervisor's Toolkit contains checklists, communication logs, self-assessment tools, and other critical supervision resources the equip today's supervisor to achieve his or her personal best.

Common Sense Supervision
Common Sense Supervision

Author: Roger Fulton

Publisher: Ten Speed Press

Published: 2010-12-08

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0307759431

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COMMON SENSE SUPERVISION is a practical manual for people who are new or experienced in supervisory positions. Written in a clear non-nonsense style, the book outlines the responsibilities of a supervisor and shows how to make the workday work.

Effective Supervision
Effective Supervision

Author: David L. Goetsch

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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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.

Successful Research Supervision
Successful Research Supervision

Author: Dr. Anne Lee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0415663520

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" a fabulous resource for graduate advisors" Eric Mazur, Harvard University Successful Research Supervision offers a research-based practical framework for academics to be able to examine and further develop their effectiveness as research supervisors. Research supervisors working in all levels of higher education must ensure that their students gain efficiencies from working as part of an effective cohort and develop high levels of interdisciplinary understanding and critical thought. To impart these disciplines effectively is essential for any successful research supervisor. From helping researchers to begin to managing a project through to successful completion, this book guides the reader through a series of exercises to identify their individual strengths and weaknesses and then provides theoretically sound advice in a practical and easy to use format. Successful Research Supervision is full of examples of the best practice from outstanding scientists, social scientists and humanities supervisors from both the UK and the USA. This book will encourage and help academics to: Expand their own repertoire and array of actions and responses, thus giving them the flexibility to meet different situations with ease and confidence Identify the optimum combination of approaches to best fit individual students Understand the influence of their own value and experiences in the choice of their approach to research students Be able to choose the most appropriate combination of approaches for a particular curriculum or project Employ a neutral language for developing and assisting others It also provides policy makers and curriculum designers with practical guidelines for evaluating their work. Anne Lee is an independent academic and was Senior Academic Development Adviser at the University of Surrey

Supervision
Supervision

Author: Samuel C. Certo

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9780071318365

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Prepares students to be supervisors in a challenging modern workplace. This book is based on the premise that organizational variables including diversity in the workforce, computer and communication technology, and the design of organization structures are constantly changing