Supervision and Management

Recruiting & Maintaining a Diverse Staff
This workshop will explore the role of staffing in developing organizational cultural competency. In particular, we will discuss issues of organizational preparedness, recruitment, retention and the development of an organizational culture in which people of all backgrounds can thrive, contribute, and develop necessary competencies for a diverse workforce. We will examine participants' organizations and work together to define actions to create an organization with a culturally diverse and competent staff. Participants should bring information about: the demographic make-up of paid and unpaid staff (including volunteers, board of directors), demographics of clients (i.e., service users, patients, customers), and a demographic profile of the community, as well as any general brochures and/or staff-related materials that are currently used in the agency.

Family-Centered Supervision
This two-day supervisory training is designed for those who supervise family-centered practitioners. This program offers an opportunity to analyze the supervisor role systematically from a developmental stage approach, to learn three modes of supervision, and to acquire solutions for the inevitable challenges family workers face. Supervisory and training sessions will be modeled and practiced, and participants will practice problem-solving and worker assessment. An optional third day will focus on time management techniques and maximizing worker potential.

Family-Centered Management
The purpose of this training is to help participants manage change in their own workplaces, in their professional practice, and in that of their colleagues. The workshop targets senior practitioners and managers, and draws on their current experience of managing change. Participants work through the different levels of thinking and negotiation involved in effective change management, and learns to: 1) map the people involved in their work to identify all key players; 2) analyze the nature of the innovation to plan appropriate actions; and 3) understand the context within which they are working, in order to use it to their advantage.

Maximizing Worker Potential
This session offers information, practical tools and peer discussion to aid supervisors in leading their staff through the change process. Areas covered include: creating partnerships for change, tools for identifying strength-based worker competencies, and how to identify and enhance workers' motivation.

Developing Successful Programs
This training will focus on the development and implementation of new programs that reflect a strength-based family centered philosophy. The presenters will draw from current research, and their personal/professional experiences to give a model for successful program development.

Ethical Program Development
This training will focus on the development and implementation of new programs that reflect a strength-based family centered philosophy. Areas covered will include, but not be limited to: ethics, funding, and human resources. The presenters will draw from current research and their personal/professional experiences to give a model for successful program development.

Maintaining Healthy Workers and a Healthy Working Environment
The essential keys of maximum worker potential promote good mental and physical health and promotion of a healthy working environment. This training will provide you with valuable tools to create a working environment that is respectful to staff and ultimately to the families that they work with.