Supervision – Approach, Methods, and Impact
What is supervision?
Download Flyer (German)Supervision is a structured form of collegial consultation. It helps to reflect on daily work, special tasks, or challenges in a solution-oriented way.
In supervision sessions, colleagues discuss stressful experiences or stressful situations with each other. This gives them a new perspective on conflicts or other difficult situations.
Our professional guidance ensures that the exchange in supervision sessions remains constructive and respectful.
Regular supervision sessions are relieving on a personal level, enable a change of perspective, promote mutual understanding, and strengthen team cohesion.
Our methods
Our mix of methods addresses both the cognitive and emotional levels of the individual. This conscious shift has been proven to lead to better learning that can also be applied in everyday life.
We work with resource-oriented consulting methods and solution-oriented questions, taking team dynamics and other systemic relationships into account. We can work on a topic that is currently pressing or find solutions together for recurring challenges in everyday working life.
Examples of helpful questions in supervision sessions
- What is effective and can remain?
- How can we improve our collaboration?
- In which phases of work can personal differences challenge us?
Possible forms of supervision at SEQUOYA
The goal of any supervision is to provide relief, promote new perspectives, and develop solutions. However, supervision can vary in terms of thematic focus and setting.
Case supervision involves a specific case in practice that is brought up by a team member. The objectives may include: relief by talking about personal challenges, learning about other perspectives on the case, and advice on
possible solutions.
Supervision for case discussions can take place in a group (e.g., in a team) or as part of individual supervision.
Team supervision involves discussion within the team about cooperation and communication, structures and work processes, and other overarching team issues.
The most important goal of team supervision is usually to improve cooperation so that more energy can be channeled into operational work and less energy is needed to resolve internal conflicts.
In individual supervision, team members and supervisors reflect on current challenges in their everyday working lives, difficult situations, or conflicts in one-on-one sessions.
Individual supervision also provides space for very personal topics that should not be discussed in front of a larger group. This setting can be very effective for growing in and through crises.
Management supervision provides managers with support for their professional capabilities.
Management supervision can take place as individual sessions or in a group for a management team. It can focus on specific cases in a manager’s everyday work (case supervision) or on challenges within a management team (team supervision).
Acute supervision is a form of supported collegial counseling following a stressful incident.
When working with people, there are sometimes traumatic incidents that affect everyone in the team—they can be upsetting or even shocking. Acute supervision helps to process the traumatic incident. It provides a safe space for unpleasant feelings such as anger, shock, or grief. And together, we consider what would be a good way to deal with it.
