Beyond the Visiting Supervisor:What Works, What’s Next?

A Slide Show October 25, 2005

Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC Photographs provided by Katharine Millonzi and Jackie Dowdell

Panelist Marc Luoma, Senior Technical Advisor, the Capacity Project, presents The visiting supervisor model: What is the evidence?

Beyond the Visiting Supervisor panelists Joan Galer, Director of Leadership Development, Leadership, Management, and Sustainability Program, Management Sciences for Health, and Marc Luoma, Senior Technical Advisor, the Capacity Project, with moderator Lois Schaefer, Senior Technical Advisor, USAID.

Beyond the Visiting Supervisor panelist Julia Bluestone, JHPIEGO.

Julia Bluestone, JHPIEGO, presents Supervision training: Some lessons from Kenya.

Beyond the Visiting Supervisor participants share ideas about what motivates individuals to perform well in work environments.

After the morning panel, small working groups discuss their reactions to presentations.

Panelist Joan Galer,

Management Sciences for Health,

fields a question.

Beyond the Visiting Supervisor panelists Violet Barkauskas, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (left), and Marcia Thomsen, independent business consultant (right), with moderator Ann Lion Coleman, Cognizant Technical Officer, USAID.

Working groups brainstorm about alternative supervisor models and approaches.

During the afternoon brainstorming session, participants consider

key possible promising practices in supervision. Some of their

suggestions will inform features of an improved supervision

approach to be tested by the Capacity Project.

Ann Lion Coleman, Cognizant Technical Officer, USAID, Marcia Thomsen, independent business consultant, and Violet Barkauskas, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, discuss approaches to supervision.