Keyword: Supervision

The NZ Coaching & Mentoring Centre are excited to be key sponsors of the Aotearoa New Zealand Supervision Conference 2010 - "Common Threads, Different Patterns".

This is an inter-professional conference that will attract a wide range of health and social service professionals including Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Counsellors, Physiotherapists, Career Practitioners, Managers, Allied Health Professionals, Coaches and Mentors.

Key note speakers include Meg Bond from the UK, author of Skills for Clinical Supervision for Nurses.

The New Zealand Mentoring Centre took to the skies in September and ran a 'pilot' training for The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia in Queensland. The training, entitled Supervision Skills for Health Professionals, was trialled with a group of 16 staff from a range of disciplines including indigenous mental health workers, psychologists, nurses, social workers and of course, doctors.

Australian health-care provider Queensland Health is rolling out the New Zealand Mentoring Centre training course The Power of Peer Supervision to 2000 employees in 2 districts over 5 years.

After running peer supervision training for the last four years for Queensland Health, the NZ Mentoring Centre has just completed its first train the trainer course. This will enable QH trainers to roll out the peer supervision model throughout the state for allied health staff including occupational therapists, mental health nurses, psychologists, indigenous workers, speech pathologists and physiotherapists - all professions that need the chance to review their practice in order to develop their professional competence.

In June New Zealand Mentoring Centre directors Aly McNicoll and Wendy Baker travelled the USA to present a workshop at the  ASTD 2008 International Conference in San Diego on 'The Power of Peer Mentoring Groups - tools for learning in the connected organisation'.

This conference attracted 12,000 delegates, and as workshop leaders they are standing alongside Ken Blanchard, Marshall Goldsmith and a host of other leadership legends.