Developing Leadership Excellence ― A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor

Professional Supervision is a core component of maintaining accreditation for many professions particularly in the community and human services sector. Clinical professions such as Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Teachers, Nurses, Midwives, Doctors, Counsellors and Psychologists are all required or encouraged to access professional supervision regularly as part of maintaining professional standards in their roles, self-care and role accountability. Professional supervision is the most effective space to reflect on practice, engage in ongoing growth and development as well as ensure effective client outcomes.

Within the helping, teaching and human service sectors, managers are increasingly being expected to provide some form of supervision for employees in both their professional and administrative streams, however very few training providers and resources exist to help support managers and supervisors to develop their supervisory skills or provide them with a clear framework to implement supervision.

As a business and HR consulting and training professional, Tracey Harris has developed a systematic framework that ensures supervision remains effective and sustainable over time. As part of the supervision platform and system, Tracey has developed a range of unique resources, tools and documents for beginning supervisory practitioners to assist them to develop the necessary skills to be effective in their new role. She has developed seven integrated supervision models that provide a common language framework for all roles in the organisational and business context.

Developing Supervisory Excellence: A Practice Guide for the New Professional Supervisor provides those new to the supervision role and process with an evidence based integrated framework, supervision model and resources to conduct effective professional supervision. It is unique and the first text of its kind to integrate the existing frameworks of supervision into a comprehensive model of practice, providing a clear procedural guide for conducting professional and operational supervision. In addition, it provides new supervisors with a range of administrative resources to support, record, track and evaluate the supervision process.

Tracey Harris is the Executive Director of Amovita Consulting and is a leading speaker and professional on developing high performance in the workplace.

Tracey has worked in the human services and corporate sectors specialising in organisational and business excellence, leadership and performance for over 25 years.

Having worked as a senior ministerial advisor, Tracey led the social housing reform in NSW with a particular focus on West Dubbo. This policy reform was recognised as a positive policy platform in working alongside the Aboriginal community and Elders who were instrumental in developing new social housing outcomes for this community.

Tracey has worked both in senior management and in clinical practice early in her career. She leads the Management and Executive Consulting Division of Amovita and has a career that spans three states of Australia and she has clients in Australia and internationally. Tracey has also provided lectureship at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane, where she specialised in the fields of public and social policy, field education and mediation for eight years.

In addition to her work as Lecturer and as Executive Director for Amovita Consulting, Tracey also has an interest in research on high performance leadership and neuroscience and has developed an integrated model of coaching and supervision in the workplace for high performance outcomes. Tracey is currently an HDR Candidate with Griffith University researching how training in leadership and supervision influences supervisor competence.

Professional Qualifications

2017 Superconscious Self Coaching (Acc)

2016 Herrman Brain International - Certified Practitioner HBDITM

2015 TAE Cert IV Training & Assessment

2014 MPhil (Current) - Griffith University

2014 Blue Ocean Strategy Australia - Strategic Leadership

2013 Diploma Neuroscience Leadership

2012 Blue Ocean Australia – Strategic Leadership

2010 Family Transitions, Child Inclusive Family Dispute Resolution Clinical Training

2010 St George Bank, Business Leaders Program

2009 Post Graduate Diploma Dispute Resolution (Partial)