Authenticity is a word often bandied around, but do we reflect adequately on what authenticity truly means?

Career development isn't just about acquiring skills; it's about strengthening our inner foundation of self-leadership to cultivate fertile soil for our growth and development. In this piece, I've outlined key steps to help you build your sense of self, self-belief, and self-trust to provide the groundwork for outer progress.

To support savvy leaders and organisations to invest meaningfully in their employees’ professional development, I’ve developed a simple framework that shows how supervision can move from toxic to transformative supervision - and the incredible impact this has.

As leaders it is important to consider how we influence how others may feel. How we deliver feedback is a great place to start. When thinking of colleagues as ‘human first’, there’s a lot we can utilise to help us as leaders ensure we’re providing feedback that supports the humans we work with.

I love good questions. They make us think, grow and learn.

Good questions invite us to go deeper, to reflect and analyse, to consider new perspectives and insights.

It’s the Supervisors role to run the sessions isn’t it? 

Actually, research shows that to get the most from supervision you need mutually engaged and driven participants.

Positive supervision is focussed on learning and skill development.

Positive learning supports skill development and problem- solving, the supervisor will provide relevant information and resources to help the supervisee grow in their practice.

As we reflect on the different levels of supervision, what is happening in your workplace?

What do you think the experiences are for supervisees in your workplace?

As we reflect on the different levels of supervision, what is happening in your workplace?

What do you think the experiences are for supervisees in your workplace?

Professional and Clinical Supervision is a co-created, collaborative learning focussed conversation between a supervisor and supervisee. It is a process of learning and support, designed to build self-directed learners and workforce capacity through practice skill development and reflective learning.

It is possible to reflect on the year in terms of our contributions and, also in terms of the strengths and skills that you’ve used and developed, so that we can take these skills forward more intentionally.

It is important to recognise that workplaces have different cultures, practices and policies about supervision and workplace learning.