Using a Competency-Based Approach to Supervision

Building and Sustaining Meaningful and Effected Relationships as a Supervisor and Mentor Chapter 5 Infographic

The full scope of skills that a supervisor might teach is too large to leave unplanned.

STEP 1: Choose the scope of knowledge and skills you commit to cover based on:

• your competence
• supervisee’s or trainee’s work context
• opportunity to address target knowledge and skills

STEP 2: Arrange the targets in a logical sequence beginning with foundational knowledge and skills first

STEP 3: Develop competency tests and mastery criteria

STEP 4: Incorporate the trainee’s preferences and goals