Allied health professionals, like speech language pathologists, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists, can be challenging to manage!
We don’t feel success when a job is too easy.
But we can’t succeed if a job is too hard for our current competence levels, experience, and training.
A supervisor’s job is to ensure allied health professionals find their workloads and caseloads challenging and doable.
In supervision, we should sit down and check that assigned job tasks challenge but don’t overwhelm.
This is a two-way street: allied health professionals can help supervisors know when, where, and what type of input is needed.
Staying open to these conversations in supervision can make things better – for clients, the team, and the practice.
Main source: Martin, R.L. (2023). Designing Jobs Right: Make them challenging – but don’t overdo it. Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 2023, 50-53.
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