Supervision: A Handbook for Success is designed to be an integral resource for the new leader, as well as the established commander. New supervisor will receive the background needed to create their own style and methods for leadership. For the seasoned correctional leader, new approaches and ideas are presented to help refine your management style. Topics covered in this book include: mastering leadership skills, managing time and change, communicating effectively with staff, and understanding the needs of your institution and employees.
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.
Intended to give newly promoted supervisors the basics to do their job properly, effectively and efficiently. Gives advice from the fields of leadership, law and personnel management.
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.
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.
To assist school administrators, this handbook discusses types of supervision and evaluation and suggests ways to assess teacher performance. After a brief introductory section, the handbook's second section addresses five "fictions" about evaluation, including that evaluations must be "objective" and annual, require direct observation and standard evaluation forms, and involve gathering hard "data." Eleven criteria for judging teacher performance are presented in the third section, involving such things as teacher ability with skills and concepts, English speaking and writing ability, expectations of student scholarship, variety of teaching methods, planning, classroom control, pedagogical principles, class results on achievement tests, cooperation with students and staff, handling of procedures and reports, and pursuit of professional growth. The following section discusses the uses and abuses of evaluation checklists and sets forth the three components of narrative evaluation reports: comments on the meeting of objectives, descriptions of performance quality, and recommendations for improvement. The fifth section suggests 17 guidelines for supervision systems, classroom visits, supervisory conferences, and narrative reports. Among the guidelines are evaluating tenured and nontenured teachers differently, taking notes during visits, being sensitive to a supervisory conference's emotional context, and writing simple, direct reports. (RW)
Social work supervision has been identified as one of the most important factors in determining the job satisfaction levels of social workers and the quality of service to clients. As an indirect but vital factor in the social work process, it is surprising that supervision has not received as much attention as other components of social work practice, such as social work research or administration. A book on social work supervision is desperately needed to bridge the gap between the demands of the field and the absence of literature. Social Work Supervision: Contexts and Concepts aims to provide readers with basic knowledge of theories, research, and practice of supervision. The book will address the needs of social work supervisors, frontline practitioners, students, and educators. The book is ideally suited as a text for graduate courses on social work supervision, as it contains a comprehensive literature review of the historical development, theories and models, and empirical research studies of the subject. Equally important, this is a book from practice experience in supervision that enhances the competence of supervisory practice. It will help social workers, supervisors, and administrators to realize and revitalize their "mission" in social work, that is, to benefit clients. Key Features: * Presents social work supervision as a rational, effective, and interactive process focusing on the whole person of the social worker * Discusses the history, the nature and definitions, and the theoretical models of social work supervision * Explores the major functions of social work supervision—administrative, educational, and supportive * Addresses the specific format and structure of supervision sessions
Students enrolled for the International Qualification in Diploma in Leadership and Management sometimes find it challenging to understand what is expected as they attempt to complete various work based assignments. Sometimes the questions are not straight forward and one is never sure whether they are on the right track. As a result some students give up, others get stuck and demotivated and for many more, it takes longer to finish the course than anticipated. For that reason, this guide was developed as a support tool to guide you by simplifying the questions and giving the needed suggestions to get you moving ahead. To help you get the most out of this guide, here are a few things you need to know and pay attention to: General Expectations: The nature of ILM Qualifications: The ILM Diploma in Leadership and Management is a vocational qualification. As such it is different from many other exams you have taken in other schools and colleges. While many examinations test your ability to memorize and reproduce what you were taught, this diploma tests your ability to apply your learning in your workplace. For this reason, the emphasis is not on the right or wrong answer but more so on the relevance of your argument to your situation. The Length of each assignment has been given below the unit purpose. This will range between 800 and 2500 words depending on the number of questions given in the particular assignment Pass mark for each question or Assessment Criteria (AC) is 50% .That means if a question has been allocated 10 marks, then you need to score a minimum of 5 out of the 10 marks. Scoring less than half the total mark allocation will mean the assignment will be returned to you for necessary improvement Evidence of workplace application. All ILM assignments are work-based meaning, your response should be based on leadership and management practice in your work place. Therefore, the examiner of your work will be looking for evidence that you were able to apply your learning in your work place context. Plagiarism is considered the worst crime one can commit in academic circles. It involves using other people’s ideas without acknowledging the source. The punishment for plagiarism is a zero score for that paper and in extreme cases you may be discontinued from the study program [...].
Clinical supervision (CS) is emerging as the crucible in which counselors acquire knowledge and skills for the substance abuse (SA) treatment profession, providing a bridge between the classroom and the clinic. Supervision is necessary in the SA treatment field to improve client care, develop the professionalism of clinical personnel, and maintain ethical standards. Contents of this report: (1) CS and Prof¿l. Develop. of the SA Counselor: Basic info. about CS in the SA treatment field; Presents the ¿how to¿ of CS.; (2) An Implementation Guide for Admin.; Will help admin. understand the benefits and rationale behind providing CS for their program¿s SA counselors. Provides tools for making the tasks assoc. with implementing a CS system easier. Illustrations.
