Guided Independent Supervision & Support (G.I.S.S.) is for Professionals who manage, lead

or help others through a learning process, this can include professionals who:

 

If you are one of the above then read on...

Professional Supervision is now seen by many as integral to good practice for the qualified

manager, leader, trainer, coach, mentor or facilitator. The value of this practice is becoming

more widely recognised and may soon become one of the main methods of regulating these

professional roles. 

Effective Professional Supervision achieves three main purposes:

1.  Quality Control in which the supervisor is responsible for helping the practitioner review

     their own performance (quality and standards)

2.  Personal Development in which the supervisor is responsible for enabling practitioners to

     refine their skills and elaborate both their discipline-specific knowledge and their technical

     competencies (reflective learning)

3.  Promoting Commitment to the professional fields of management, leadership, learning

     and development, which, in turn, enhances motivation (support and guidance)

OFQT provides its own unique Professional Supervision package called G.I.S.S. (Guided

Independent Supervision and Support) specifically designed to meet the needs of the manager

and leader as well as the training, coaching, mentoring and facilitating professional. 

Click on the link below to find yourself a Professional Supervisor

Useful background reading material

BACP (2008) - Supervision strategy acton plan

Carroll M & Holloway E (1999) - Counselling Supervision in Context

CIPD (2006) - Good practice in Coaching Supervision

Smith, M. K. (1996, 2005)  The functions of supervision: the encyclopedia of informal education

Last update: September 03, 2009

Lombardi, Judy (2001) Supervision of student teachers: emerging models and innovative approaches in the USA

 

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