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[Field Notes logo] Supervisor Self-Assessment
contributed by Alex Risley Schroeder
Field Notes main page Winter 2002 issue
 

The quiz below is adapted from "Effective Supervision Survey" in Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership: A Guide for Organizations in Changing Times, by Berit M. Lakey, George Lakey, Rod Napier, and Janice M. Robinson (New Society Publishers, 1995), page 136. It is designed to be answered by employees about their supervisor.

Instructions:
As supervisors we are used to wearing a variety of different hats. In this exercise put on the hat of a staff member of your organization and look at your behavior through the eyes of your staff. Use this instrument to assess yourself as a supervisor. With each question, rate yourself on a scale of 1-10 (10 = excellent). Be honest!

  Points

1. Clearly defines her or his own limit of authority.

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2. Provides me with clear organizational goals and priorities.

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3. Provides me with a clear understanding of my own authority as it relates to my role.

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4. Helps me to establish my own goals and objectives in an atmosphere of openness and collaboration, where my ideas and concerns are seriously considered.

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5. Determines with me the criteria of success upon which my own performance will be measured.

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6. Believes that my career development is a crucial part of the supervisory process and actively focuses with me on career opportunities and my own long-term goals.

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7. Meets with me regularly to keep in touch with my progress.

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8. Establishes with me a climate of help and accessibility that makes it easy to approach him or her.

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9. Provides me with organizational information I feel is important to my own work and maintains my interest and involvement in the organization.

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10. Provides me with the opportunity to develop specific skills or experience necessary for my present job or future development within this organization or elsewhere.

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11. Helps me develop a clear and easily followed plan that outlines my progress and how well I am meeting my own goals and objectives, both in terms of the job itself and my personal and professional development.

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12. Helps me evaluate my own performance in areas of strengths and limitations.

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13. Takes time periodically to observe me on the job, doing those things that are most important for my success.

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14. Solicits my own views of my performance based on the criteria to which we previously agreed.

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15. Solicits, along with me, information from individuals I impact in my job and compares this with his or her conceptions of my performance, as well as with my own.

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16. Works with me to improve my performance in areas that appear to need strengthening, based on the information I have gathered.

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17. Gives problems I have within the organization appropriate attention, shortly after I've stated them.

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18. Shapes my supervision according to my unique and changing needs.

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19. Involves me in problem solving where I have the expertise or where I feel the eventual decision will directly influence my own life.

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20. Uses observation/evaluation tools that I am both familiar and comfortable with.

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Total: ________

Alex Risley Schroeder is the Changes Project coordinator at the SABES West Regional Support Center. She can be reached at 413-552-2066 or by e-mail at: arisley-schroeder@hcc.mass.edu

Originally published in: Field Notes, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Winter 2002)
Publisher: SABES/World Education, Boston, MA, Copyright 2001.
Posted on SABES Web site: April 2002
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