CS1.4 – Role of supervisor
Activity
Read article. As you read, think about how you can create the right conditions for people to develop and grow.
Consider what you think the attributes of a good supervisor are and add them to the Padlet below.
How does this compare to what the research tells us (Bond & Holland 1998)
- Reliability and punctuality
- Settling
- Listening with acceptance
- Encouragement
- Tuning in
- Advocacy
- Silence
- Permission for emotional release
- Enabling emotional recovery
- Self disclosure
Support and challenge content
In clinical supervision we are aiming to facilitate an environment which offers both high support and high challenge to the supervisee. This is the mechanism for achieving learning and improved wellbeing. Listen to Pippa Gough, an executive coach explain what we mean by this and how it might be achieved.
Reflective exercise
Take a moment to reflect on times in your career when you have experienced high support and high challenge. Make a list of the features of that relationship or interaction that enabled the high support/high challenge dynamic. Now identify how clinical supervision might offer the opportunity to enable this dynamic.