Coaching Supervision – An Aspirational Approach to Promote Nursing Home Staff Agency
In the June 2nd issue of WAVE, Dr. Geiseke wrote a thought-provoking blog titled “Are you a facilitator of agency?” Human agency is the capacity of people to have the power and resources to fulfill their potential. It reminded me of a train-the-trainer certificate I received in PHI Coaching Supervision ® ten years ago.1 Coaching supervision is an untraditional method of supervision that emphasizes active listening, self-awareness, self-management, paraphrasing, delivering feedback, and other forms of verbal and non-verbal communication. It was specifically developed with long-term care managers and supervisors in mind. In 2021, AHCA/NCAL partnered with PHI to offer a new online training of this program for all assisted living, skilled nursing, and ID/DD staff with supervisory responsibilities.2