Developing Leadership Excellence

7Evaluating Supervision

Engaging some form of evaluation on a regular basis is crucial to understand how effective supervision is over time.

Undertaking regular review and evaluation of supervision is as important as the supervision meeting itself. The question is – as a new supervisor, how do you go about evaluating the effectiveness of the supervision you are providing? How would you know that supervision is achieving what it is intended to? Most supervisors evaluate supervision by asking the supervisee how supervision is going. Whilst this is useful as it gives you a guide of how things are going as you gain confidence, it is also important to have different methods of evaluation to ensure that supervision remains effective.

Much of the ...