Developing Leadership Excellence

Professional supervision is a core component of maintaining professional practice and accreditation for many professions, particularly in the community and human services sector. Professions such as social workers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, teachers, nurses, midwives, doctors, counsellors, and psychologists are encouraged to access regular professional supervision. This practice helps maintain professional standards, engage in self-care, promote ongoing growth and development, and meet organisational requirements.

Throughout her career, Tracey Harris has developed a passion for the role that professional and operational supervision plays in the workplace. She has created a systematic framework to ensure supervision remains effective and sustainable over time. As part of the supervision platform and system, Tracey has developed a range of unique resources, tools, and documents for beginning supervisory practitioners. These materials assist in developing the necessary skills to feel confident and supported in their new roles. She has crafted seven integrated supervision models providing a common language framework suitable for all organisational and business roles.

Developing Leadership Excellence: A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor is the first text of its kind to incorporate existing supervision frameworks into a comprehensive practice model. It offers new supervisors clear procedural and practice guidance for conducting professional and operational supervision. Additionally, it equips new supervisors with resources to support, record, track, and evaluate the supervision process and its outcomes.

This book:

• Outlines the different types of supervision and poses reflective questions to prompt new supervisors to contemplate supervision's purpose, achievements, and the signs of inadequate supervision.
• Guides new supervisors on selecting quality training, highlights key training topics, and concludes with reflective questions for consideration when engaging in training.
• Provides a detailed analysis of the benefits of both providing and receiving professional supervision.
• Offers key information for new supervisors on how to establish supervision and build rapport within the supervisory relationship.
• Explores ways to maintain professional boundaries and the processes for giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Details relevant documents for use in supervision, considering the ethical and industrial context of supervision.
• Discusses the importance of evaluating professional supervision, including reflective questions to help supervisors develop an evaluation framework.
• Examines the core differences between supervision styles and managing the dual roles of line and professional supervisor.
• Presents an example framework for assessing competency and capability among new supervisors.