Frankel (2008) argues that formal on-to-one supervision facilitates positive staff development. . Effective supervision practice promotes professional growth and development. An individual staff needs to interact always with a supervisor to enhance knowledge development. With the shortcoming identified in the supervision practice in various professions and my work place, the paper provides recommendations to enhance supervisory practice.
Recommendations to enhance Supervisory Practice.
Ideal supervisory practice requires good communication. Within a work environment, an organization should make it mandatory for a supervisor to implement effective communication with the supervisees to enhance the professional development.
Moreover, an organization should provide enough time for a supervisor to implement an effective supervisory role. For example, in my place of work, my supervisor always complains of lack of time. This means that my supervisor has been given more jobs that she can cope with, and this has affected her supervisory role. To avoid this issue, an organization should allow a supervisor a free work place to perform his or her supervisory roles.
In addition, supervisors should go for the regular trainings to enhance their skills in the supervisory practices. By going for regular trainings, supervisors will understand their commitments towards the supervisees. They would be able to understand that they perform important roles towards the professional development of supervisees, and this understanding will make them to be more committed to their jobs.
Conclusion
The essay explores the statement of Koster (2003), which states "supervision leads to a mental and emotional education that can guide practical work, frees from fixed patterns of experience and behaviour and promotes the willingness as well as the ability to act suitably, carefully and courageously." (pp. 1-2). The paper identifies several important contributions of supervision towards the professional development. The concept counselling is also been viewed to go hand-in-hand with supervision. To implement effective supervision within an organization, a supervisor needs develop counselling skills to perform his supervisory roles.
Several benefits of supervision have been identified. Supervision...
Through mentoring, advising and counselling, a supervisee will able to attain a professional maturity. Despite the benefits identified in supervisory practice within a work environment, there are difficulties identified in the supervision. For example, poor communication and poor feedback from a supervisor may jeopardize an effective supervisory practice. To address these shortcomings, the paper recommends good communication practice and the training for a supervisor to enhance quality supervision.
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