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What Effective Supervision Feedback Looks Like

Understand what makes supervisory feedback useful, actionable, and skill-building rather than merely corrective.

What Effective Supervision Feedback Looks Like

Effective supervision feedback does more than praise or correct. It helps supervisees understand why a decision was effective and how to improve future performance.

Supervisors are encouraged to comment not only on outcomes, but on the supervisee’s process and choices.

  • Specific and behavior-focused
  • Timely and consistent
  • Neutral in tone when addressing errors
  • Reinforcing of correct decision-making
  • Oriented toward skill development, not judgment