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All About Supervision
- Much of the information in this topic is adapted from the books Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision and Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision for Nonprofit Staff.
Sections of This Topic Include
Suggested Previous Reading About Supervision
Gaining Broad Understanding of Supervision
What Do Supervisors Do?
Basic Guide to Management and Supervision
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Related Library Topics
Learn More in the Library's Blogs Related to Supervision
In addition to the articles on this current page, also see the following blogs that have posts related to Supervision. Scan down the blog's page to see various posts. Also see the section "Recent Blog Posts" in the sidebar of the blog or click on "next" near the bottom of a post in the blog. The blog also links to numerous free related resources.
Library's Human
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Library's Leadership Blog
Library's Supervision
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Library's Team Performance
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Suggested Previous Reading About Supervision
Supervision is the activity carried out by supervisors to oversee the productivity and progress of employees who report directly to the supervisors. For example, chief executive officers supervise those who report directly to the chief executives, middle-managers supervise first-level supervisors, and first-level supervisors supervise entry-level employees. Supervision is a management activity and supervisors typically are considered to have a management role in the organization.
It will be tremendously helpful to the reader is he or she first has some basic understanding of the larger context within which supervision occurs. Supervision is a management role.
The following topics are very closely related to this topic in the library: Supervisory Development, Management and Leadership.
Gaining Broad Understanding of Supervision
The following links are to articles that give a very good explanation of the roles and responsibilities of a supervisor, regardless of the type of organization in which he or she works.
One
Definition of Supervision
Typical
Experience of a First-time Supervisor
Typical
Responsibilities of a Supervisor
Typical
Roles of a Supervisor
The
Realities of Supervision
Tips and Tricks-Supervising Others
What Do Supervisors Do?
Once the reader understands the roles and responsibilities of supervision,
then he or she can go on to reviewing each of the major functions of the roles,
including any useful guidelines about how to conduct those functions.
Designing the Organization
and Staff
Staffing
Employee Training
Employee Performance
Management
Personnel
Policies
Are You the Boss You Need To Be?
What Makes a Great Boss?
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Career
Advancement (including relationship with the boss)
Leading
Other Individuals
Basic Guide to Management and Supervision
Here is a link to a complete, well-organized set of guidelines for the basic functions in supervision. The guidelines comprise a basic guidebook, which can be printed.
Basic Guide to Management, Leadership and Supervision (html format)
General Advice (Tips, etc.)
Various Suggestions
for Knowledge and Skills Needed by Management
For the Category of Supervision:
To round out your knowledge of this Library topic, you may
want to review some related topics, available from the link below.
Each of the related topics includes free, online resources.
Also, scan the Recommended Books listed below. They have been
selected for their relevance and highly practical nature.
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books - Supervision
General Information About Supervising Other Individuals
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Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision in Business
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to recruit, utilize and evaluate the best employees for your business. Includes guidelines to effectively lead yourself (as Board member or employee), other individuals, groups and organizations. Includes guidelines to avoid burnout -- a very common problem among employees of small businesses. Many materials in this Library's topic about staffing are adapted from this book.
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Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision With Nonprofit Staff
- by Carter McNamara, published by Authenticity Consulting, LLC. Provides step-by-step, highly practical guidelines to recruit, utilize and evaluate the best staff members for your nonprofit. Includes guidelines to effectively lead yourself (as Board member or staff member), other individuals, groups and organizations. Includes guidelines to avoid burnout -- a very common problem among nonprofit staff. Many materials in this Library's topic about staffing are adapted from this book.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just click on the image of the book. Also, a convenient search window is included below the rows of boxes.
