Building and Sustaining Meaningful and Effective Relationships as a Supervisor and Mentor Chapter 3, Part 1
Understanding Past and Current Supervisory and Mentored Relationships
“A great supervisor can serve as a model for future great supervisors and, unfortunately, an ineffective supervisor can serve as a model for future ineffective supervisors.”
Reflecting on past supervisory relationships allows you to:
- Be an active participant in your own learning
- Have increased gratitude for your “influencers”
- Have an increased understanding of the models you’ve observed
- Identify examples and non-examples
- Identify your professional development needs and new areas of interest
Reflection allows us to purposefully cultivate helpful repertoires and prune unhelpful repertoires acquired from our supervisors.
