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VA Supervisors
Back to back workshops:
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The Coach's Message Board: EMS BBQ Welcomes July 2021
WHat a team...The Latest workshop on December 1gung ho by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. This EMS group is awesome. They welcome the opportunity to learn and grow.
Jeff Birdsong offers a few final words, thanking Leonard, the Supervisor Team, and all EMS employees.
Theme: Evaluate the VA Supervisor Rubric
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Back in May, during conversations with Chief Leonard Hill, the coach dug back into his memory banks and surfaced with an evaluation tool that was a key learning experience at Long Island University in New York, where I served as adjunct professor.
The evaluation rubric is an enhancement from the standard report card, demonstrating not only the "grade" but lays out a path toward improvement.
The coach received valuable insights from each of the current team members and began a two-month process of identifying key markers that signal advancement, from novice (beginner level) to apprentice (learning) to proficient (performing well) to distinguished (exemplary status). These qualifiers came from the original Kentucky rubric, that led the field of evaluation innovation.
The product above looks at growth from two perspectives... employee accountability and supervisor communication.
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TopGolf: Team-building for EMS Supervisors
Welcome TEAM VA Supervisors: Coach here. This webpage is created for us to use as a vehicle for our studies. It is designed to provide information that supports leader development.
Here is an outline of the plan moving forward:
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Check-Ins: We will check-in frequently using FaceTime or Skype. Some of you may prefer that we do this at home or over the weekend. Others may have time during the workday that seems better. These check-ins are for you. I do believe that this coaching process works best when contact is consistent... SO LET'S KEEP IN TOUCH.
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Articles: I will try to pick articles that apply directly to our leader-development and remember... try to jump in and out without reading from beginning to end... which gets to feel burdensome. Jumping in and out (Cognitive Assimilation) makes it easy. Don't worry about remembering. Your brain does a good job of that for you.
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Videos: The videos should provide a more relaxing form of study... and this leader-development work can be intense. Deep learning is challenging but it is well worth the effort. If you see or hear a good video, let me know and I will share it for everyone's benefit... and give you the credit.
The Coach's Blackboard: We will learn together how best to bring the learning online. It is likely that some of you have taken virtual classes so you are familiar with how this works. I am looking at Adobe and Blackboard for support. I know that when learning is boring, IT DOESN'T WORK. I commit to making it enjoyable.
Books and Authors: We have already begun to share a few good books. Look over this page to reconnect and identify a few new books.
