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Meeting Their Needs: Identifying Your Role in Supporting and Supervising Your Unique Team

We’ve all heard the phrase “people don’t leave bad jobs…they leave bad bosses.” Being a supervisor (and a supervisee) is HARD! And supervisory dynamics can impede us from reaching our goals. By meeting our teams’ needs, providing individualized feedback through direct communication, delegating, and empowering others, supervisors can move the organization closer to its vision. This session will discuss how intentional resources (e.g., automated coaching, institute-specific programs), assessments (e.g., Gallup Q12 (https://www.gallup.com/q12/), Cloverleaf (https://cloverleaf.me/), and honest self-reflection can enhance your supervisory skills and relationships.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify past experiences working with successful teams/unsuccessful teams. What were the unique characteristics that contributed to those teams' successes? Failures? 

2. Reflect on "growth edges" in which we as supervisors recognize we can continue to engage in development; identify next steps to addressing or working towards leaning into those growth edges. 

3. Discuss specific resources to meeting the unique needs of one's team through supervision, feedback, and conflict resolution that you can take back to your respective campus/teams and put into action right away

Dana Pursley

Director, Alford Community Leadership & Involvement Center

Denison University

Dana Carnes Pursley (she/her/hers) is a leadership educator committed to developing students who will create change by leading their organizations, communities, and the future. In her 15+ year career, Dana has experience in residence life, leadership development, campus organizations, student government, fraternity and sorority life, civic engagement and service, union management, large-scale programming, and campus traditions. Currently, Dana serves as the Director of the Alford Community Leadership and Involvement Center at Denison University. Prior to Denison, Dana served as the Associate Director of the Center for Leadership at Elon University. Dana's professional interests include organizational development, voter education/registration, hazing prevention, first-gen student support, LGBTQIA+ student support, and assessment. Dana's professional involvement includes ACPA, NACA, NASPA, and NCLP.

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