I’ve been providing supervision training for the health and community sector for 20 years, to thousands of participants in hundreds of workplaces throughout Australia and New Zealand.
How it works
Through completing the twelve questions and viewing your results, the survey will help you understand how your workplace is currently tracking with best practice.
It explores how well your workplace:
- supports supervision
- aligns with best practice
- and whether it is cultivating a psychologically safe learning environment for supervisors and supervisees.
This insights survey acknowledges that the workplace is a foundational ingredient in creating a successful supervisory experience. It needs to be ‘supervision-ready’, enabling supervisees and supervisors to get the most out of supervision.
However, it also relies on both a supervisee and supervisor who embrace lifelong learning and are willing to engage in the process.
The expectation is not to be perfect, but to acknowledge that working towards best practice supervision is an ongoing process. It is not just the supervisee who is learning, but the workplace is learning how to align supervision with the emerging supervision evidence and practice wisdom.
Your responses will generate an overall score to help you identify where your workplace sits on the best practice scale:
Transformative
The highest form of supervision is transformative, being highly empowering for the supervisee and beneficial to the workplace.
Positive
Positive supervision is focussed on learning and skill development.
Benign
An ineffective learning experience, benign supervision is not energising or engaging.
Toxic
Supervision that is negative, traumatising or toxic is damaging not only to the supervisee, but to the workplace.
Michelle Bihary
Michelle is an expert in professional and clinical supervision, leadership, self-leadership and workplace resilience.
She is the author of Leading Above the Line: Applying neuroscience to build psychologically safe and thriving teams.
Building on strong clinical expertise in mental health, as an occupational therapist, individual psychotherapist and family therapist, Michelle has over three decades of experience and clinical training.
Having worked across a range of health and community sector organisations, she has developed high-level expert knowledge, training and resources to support workplaces to build supervisory knowledge, skills and a supervisory-friendly culture.
Her expertise in this area is un-matched within Australia.
Don’t just take our word for it, see what others have to say
A quick and simple tool to promote reflection and improvement. Easy to follow and actionable guidance on ways to improve.
Sarah Gallagher
Occupational Therapist, Bendigo Health
The survey made me really think more about the supervision process in our organisation and the value that we, as a organisation, gain from it.
Barbara Bard
Team Manager / Clinical Lead, Lifeline Central West
The survey's assist in focusing on the importance and role of supervision, coupled with best practice
Jo Mainsbridge
Occupational Therapist, Gecko Adapt
I liked the categories and thought it would promote productive dialogue around reflection of the supervisory relationship. I have asked our Leadership and management team to complete the quiz and we are considering this for all of our therapists.
Tamsin Pagett
Clinical Lead, OT, Life Works
Take your workplace's supervision to the next level:
This survey will ensure your workplace is aligning with
best practice.
Take your workplace's supervision to the next level:
This survey will ensure your workplace is aligning with
best practice.
