• Transitioning into your new supervisory or leadership role

• Blossoming into a more effective supervisor

• Coaching skills for supervisors

• Progressing from manager to leader

• Leading to excellence: Not settling for services “just good enough”

• The art of constructive confrontation

• “Games” played in the supervisory relationship

• Defining supervision in a professionally packaged way

• Ethics and supervision

• Effective and honorable leadership in challenging times

• The art of delegation for supervisors

• Strategies to value the supervisory session

• If I could supervise my supervisor: The art of managing upward

• Interviewing skills to hire: Developing a professionally packaged interview

• Understanding and balancing the “power” in the supervisor relationship

• Foreseeing, understanding and navigating the pitfalls of being a new supervisor

• How to supervise a “superstar”: Supervising the highest common denominator

• Managing change in changing times

• Building successful teams and infusing the agency mission and values into the program

• The many facets of building healthy supervisory relationships

• Professionally Packaging your communication skills as a supervisor

• Strategies for retention of your “best and brightest” employees

• “Organizational politics”: Developing strategies to navigate them successfully and not lose your soul in the process

• Facilitating effective and efficient meetings

• Inter-generational supervisory relationships

• Supervising during Covid-19 times 

• Preparing a professional exit strategy: Leaving your program/organization in a good way (This course can also be used to help your staff leave in a good way)

• Strategies to retain your quality employees

• Structuring and valuing the supervisory session

• Documentation skills for supervisors

• Understanding the concept of “cultural appreciation” 

• Understanding and practicing the art of Motivational Interviewing

• Finding your professional groove: Developing excellent time management skills

• Understanding the real “Money in the Bank”: Building therapeutic relationships with children and families

• Crisis intervention and de-escalation skills

• Safety when home visiting and in the community

• It is not all about behavior: Understanding the impact of trauma

• Beyond cultural diversity: Moving along the road to delivering culturally competent services

• Avoiding power struggles with children

• Establishing professional boundaries and enhancing your professional image

• Managing stress and burnout prevention

• E-mail professionalization and courtesy

• Facilitating effective and engaging trainings

• Building your “professional package”: A conversation about professional presentation, growth and development

• The importance of delivering excellent “customer service”: Who are your customers? 

• Enhancing your professional writing skills

• Basic understanding of mental illness

• Strategies for “self-care” to take care of yourself and maximize work performance

• The ABC’s of residential child care

• Working overnight shifts in residential care

• Working with youth in care: Moving from “Control to collaboration”

• Understanding domestic violence

• Learning to make the most of your supervision: “If I could supervise my supervisor I would….”

• Developing and Facilitating Effective and Engaging Trainings

• Writing psycho-socials and treatment plans

• Engaging fathers into treatment

I have developed and have been delivering a series of multi-day courses for agencies or individuals who want to engage in intensive and on-going supervisory and leadership training. There are currently four three days courses. Many agencies have chosen to rotate all their supervisory/management staff through these courses to develop a common supervisory philosophy and techniques for their programs. 
 

• Professionally Packaging your Supervisory Practice: This training provides a published definition of supervision as a working models and addresses all the basic tasks of a supervisor.

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• Staff Development, Crisis and Change Management: This training helps a supervisor understand staff development of employees from recruitment to wen they leave the agency. It also addresses crisis management and chance management.

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• Coaching Skills for Supervisors: This training will help supervisors understand the concept of coaching, and practice a variety of coaching skills to enhance their practice and improve staff development.

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• The Next Step: Refining your supervisory and leadership skills and moving you career forward: This training will focus on helping supervisors enhance their leaderships skills, develop positive ways to navigate “organizational politics” and prepare for upward growth.

• Developing and facilitating effective and engaging trainings (2 days)

I am also available for Keynote speeches on a wide variety of topics. You can find a list of previous Keynotes and topics by going to my resume under Keynote presentations.