Leadership and Supervision Self-Reflection

Assignment Overview

As a professional social worker, you have many opportunities to take leadership roles. Evaluating your own skills as a supervisor and leader helps prepare you for future roles as supervisors and leaders in the field of social work. This assignment gives you the opportunity to evaluate some of your capacities as a leader and supervisor.

By successfully completing this assignment, you demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAS and advanced generalist specialized behaviors:

• Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior. 
  • C1.SP.A: Apply professional use of self and leadership skills with colleagues, clients, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 5. Reflect on personal strengths and challenges related to social work leadership and supervision best practices.
  • C1.SP.C: Integrate the ethical and effective use of technology at all levels of practice in the specialization of advanced generalist social work  with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 4.  Apply collaborative leadership skills to train supervisees in the effective use of technology in the delivery of social services.  
• ​Competency 2: Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice. 
  • C2.SP.A: Analyze dimensions and differentiation in diversity and apply the influence of relationships and affective reactions to intervention techniques and technologies with diverse clients, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
  • C2.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, theoretical frameworks, decision making and best-practice interventions with diverse populations. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 3.  Create a summary of best practices in leadership and supervision that integrates leadership theories including transformational and either critical or conflict theory, and includes culturally competent practice.  
• ​Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-Informed Practice. 
  • C4.SP.A: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and the use of technology to inform evidence-based research practice to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings.
  • C4.SP.B: Apply leadership skills, decision making, and the use of technology to inform evidence-based program evaluation to develop, implement, evaluate, and communicate interventions across the specialization of advanced generalist practice settings. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 2.   Apply transformational leadership theory and other leadership theories, such as critical or conflict theory, to inform best practices.
• Competency 5: Engage in Policy Practice. 
  • C5.SP.A: Apply leadership skills and decision making as social change agents to collaborate with clients, colleagues, and identified stakeholders to advance social and economic well-being in the delivery of effective and technology-assisted social work services to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 4.  Apply collaborative leadership to train supervisees in the effective use of technology in the delivery of social work services to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.​
• Competency 6: Engage With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities. 
  • C6.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when engaging with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 1.  Identify qualities of a successful supervisor and leader based on theories of human behavior.  
• Competency 7: Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities. 
  • C7.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice when assessing individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 1.  Identify qualities of a successful supervisor and leader based on theories of human behavior.
• Competency 8: Intervene With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities 
  • C8.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice interventions with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 1.  Identify qualities of a successful supervisor and leader based on theories of human behavior.
• Competency 9: Evaluate Practice With Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities. 
  • C9.SP.B: Apply and integrate theories of human behavior and the social environment in the specialization of advanced generalist practice evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. 
    • Related Assignment Criterion: 
      • 1.  Identify qualities of a successful supervisor and leader based on theories of human behavior.​