Measuring success in social work never seems to be an easy proposition. For those of us who are already Board Approved Clinical Supervisors, I like to offer those three hours of clinical supervision that we need to keep up our supervisory status by focusing on measuring success with our supervisees. I believe in it. It's important. I struggle with it every time though because it is always the one workhsop in which participants are least satisfied. I guess I want everyone to love it as much as I do (and they don't).There's also a little of my ego wrapped up in there that pains me as I review evaluations and comments.
When I offered this the first time 2 years ago, the results were similar. I changed it up considerably this time, hoping for different. I didn't get that much different, but the moral to the story is in the measurement.
I've developed a nine question pre/post test instrument scaled to measure the degree to which participants are currently measuring success with their supervisees and then to assess the degree to which they plan to measure success with their supervisees in the future. When that many participants indicate they will use measurements of success with their supervisees MORE...it is a workshop I'm willing to continue to offer! Had I not made the effort to measure, I would not have had the information available to me to make an informed decision. You can see for yourself below:
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