Competent Supervisor Questionnaire

Use the Competent Supervisor Questionnaire to empower managers and help them develop their own effective supervisory style.   Empower busy supervisors to focus on what’s really important

Today’s supervisors face far greater challenges than any of their predecessors. The good news is that they need master only five basic skills to excel in their roles and progress to higher levels of responsibility.

Here’s a tool you can use to help supervisors identify their strengths in these key areas and the skills they need to improve upon:

• Set direction
• Plan and organize
• Coach/develop people
• Measure and manage performance
• Maintain effective relationships

What It’s Best Used For

This tool is best used during leadership workshops, internal management promotions, or professional development programs to empower supervisors to pinpoint their operational strengths and build actionable growth plans.

• Tracking 5 Core Supervisory Skills: It measures a manager’s competency across five foundational pillars proven to dictate leadership success: Set Direction, Plan and Organize, Coach/Develop People, Measure and Manage Performance, and Maintain Effective Relationships.
• Providing Embedded Interpretation Notes: The physical test booklet includes built-in analysis layout templates and step-by-step scoring structures to help participants seamlessly transform their scores into a concrete career action plan.
• Frictionless Manual Delivery: Designed exclusively for in-office or classroom administration, it requires no specialized computer equipment and relies entirely on quick by-hand scoring.

The tool uses English language profiles, is suitable for evaluating both new applicants and current staff, and is fully legal for use in Canada.

The Competent Supervisor Questionnaire self-scoring questionnaire can be completed in just a few minutes. Participants review 25 typical workplace scenarios and choose the actions they would take in these situations. The booklet includes rich interpretation and planning notes to help participants transform what they’ve learned into a plan for developing their own effective supervisory style.

Sample Scenarios

• You have just been appointed to a supervisory role for a team of people that you have not met before. They have a reputation for being difficult to manage.
• Two members of your team have not been collaborating well in recent months and even have had a few public arguments.
• Some 360-degree feedback from team members you have recently received suggests that you could do a little more to listen attentively.
• An enterprise-wide directive requires every team to cut costs by 10 percent over the next six months.