Beth Bowman
Pryzbyla 351
Friday February 10
9am to 4pm
6 CE credits

Registration

Regular Registration Rate: $120
Current NCSSS Field Instructor Rate: $100
Current NCSSS Student Rate: $40

Supervision in the Social Sciences

Supervising staff can be lots of fun! There are great ways to motivate people within your unit, to build a cohesive team, and to create trust and respect with your staff. This course will teach how to encourage and motivate staff to perform well, as well as address how to integrate clinical knowledge into supervision. Participants will learn how to establish boundaries, address personnel concerns such as hiring and firing, provide beneficial clinical supervision, and most of all to be an inspirational leader.

This interactive training will help participants understand how to address issues in clinical supervision as well as personnel issues as a manager. Participants will examine issues that they may be having in their current positions or potential concerns that they may have about their management roles and how to navigate these issues.

Objectives: Participants will learn how to effectively manage a team.

Through interactive discussions, participants will learn how to begin managing a team. Supervisors will learn how to assist struggling staff members to improve performance, how to reward staff who are doing well, and how to negotiate your role as a middle manager with program directors. Participants will learn how to effectively use clinical supervision time to teach staff in both the individual and group settings. Participants will learn what to expect with regard to hiring and termination of staff.

Participants will examine real case scenarios and will gain skills that will be useful to all areas of supervisory social work practice.

Upon completion of this training, participants will learn how to effectively manage a team by using strategies in the areas of conflict resolution, morale building, and clinical supervision.

Participants will learn what to expect with regard personnel issues including personal improvement plans, hiring, and termination of staff.

Participants will learn strategies for identifying and managing conflict in the workplace as a supervisor.

The first half of the day, participants will learn about what supervision is, different ways it can be done, and why it is needed. Participants will learn how to effectively use clinical supervision time to teach staff in both the individual and group settings. Different learning styles and how this applies to supervision as well as identifying and addressing conflict are also discussed. The second half of the day, participants will learn about practice standards for managers, specifically in the area of personnel. Personnel issues such as improvement plans, hiring and orientation, and firing processes will be covered. Supervisors will learn how to assist struggling staff members to improve performance, how to reward staff who are doing well, and how to negotiate your role as a middle manager with program directors.

Elizabeth Bowman has been employed in child welfare and mental health at PSI Family Services since graduating from the Masters in Social Work program at Gallaudet University in 2009. She has supervised staff in both child welfare and mental health settings in Washington, D.C. She has taught courses at the Gallaudet University Social Work Department as well as for CEYou including training on management in the social sciences. She has also taught yoga to social work staff at PSI Family Services to help address issues of social worker stress. She is a mother of two and a current doctoral student at the Catholic University of America.