Ep29 CPP Rides Again! Pt5 Professional Development Across the Galaxy (Supervision)

It only took us a few extra months, but PBS Matters and ATBA ride again in part 5 of our Cross Pollination Podcast! In this discussion, Paddy, Jo, Shana, and Kelly discuss professional development (we also have a special vocal appearance from the lovely Hetty). We review the importance of listening to your supervisee in order to have a mutually beneficial relationship, understanding the layers and complexity of supervision, and how to improve our own practices and the practices of whom we supervise and mentor.

Learning Objectives:

1. Differentiate between potential layers of supervision.

2. Recognize the importance of collaboration even during the supervision experience.

3. List some compassionate leadership skills.

4. Consider potential barriers when it comes to gaining supervision, continuing education, and how to work through those hindrances.

Take Aways- your bite-sized educational noms

- There are potentially several layers when it comes to supervision. It isn’t always just supervisor to supervisee but can also include the company’s professional development. If you work and supervise in these types of systems, one should ask, “Are they supportive each other?” If the supervisee’s interests for continuing education venture into outside of the current environment, will they be supported in their quest for additional knowledge, or will it be dampened?

- Just like we discussed with Tyra in Ep28, know what you don’t know. It’s okay and totally normal to not know everything! But it’s crucial to understand where your scope of competence and practice ends, and someone else’s collaboration is needed and begins.

- We’ve all heard the buzz phrase “compassionate care” and it’s a practice that all practitioners should practice but it doesn’t end at clients. We need to consider the competing contingencies, resources, and accessibility when helping supervisees improve and develop. It is important to listen to all voices, including those you are supervising. The relationship needs to be reciprocal, not transactional.

- There will most likely always be barriers to continuing education opportunities- whether it’s a lack of opportunities or accessibility, limited resources (let’s be honest, CEUs and conferences aren’t always affordable), and lack of motivation. Many of these barriers we as supervisors can help our supervisees overcome, it may take us being creative and exploring what’s out there, but we should always seek to better ourselves and our supervisees.

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