Feb 23, 2010 - What Do You Know About Your Supervisor? by: Lady Dianne
What Do You Know About Your Supervisor?
1.What are your supervisor’s top three work
priorities?
2.How does your supervisor prefer to receive
information (memos, formal meetings,
phone call, informal meetings, emails, texting,
other)?
3.What is your supervisor’s preferred style of
working?
____ Very organized and highly
structured
____ Moderately organized and
structured
____ Little organization or structure
4.Is your supervisor
____ More Introverted (Reflects inward
and prefers quiet time for thinking about things)? OR
____ More Extroverted (Reflects outward
and prefers talking about things
with others)?
5.Is your supervisor
____ A big picture person?OR
____ A detail person?
6.Is your supervisor
____ Past oriented
____ Present oriented
____ Future oriented
7.What is your supervisor's primary conflict style?
____ Competing (assertive and
uncooperative) – pursues own
concerns at other’s
expense
____ Accommodating (unassertive and
cooperative) – neglects own
concerns to satisfy the concerns
of others
___ Avoiding (unassertive and
uncooperative) –
does not immediately pursue own
concerns or those of the other
person
___ Collaborating (assertive and
cooperative) – attempts to work
with the other person to find
solutions which fully satisfy the
concerns of both persons.
___ Compromising (intermediate in
both assertive and
cooperativeness) – attempts to find some expedient
mutually acceptable solution
which partially satisfies both
parties
8. What are your supervisor’s three
outstanding strengths?
9.What are your supervisor’s three greatest
developmental needs?How are you
working with her and him to address
those needs?
10.What is your supervisor’s greatest
stressor?
11.What do you know about your
supervisor’s family?Is she/he single,
married or does she/he have a significant
other?Any children?
Any grandchildren?Mom and dad still
living?Any pets?
12.What are your supervisor’s favorite
hobbies, sports or outside interests?
Dianne Floyd Sutton is President of Sutton Enterprises, author, trainer, educator, facilitator, expert witness, coach and actor. She has twenty-five years of combined experience in Human Resource Development (HRD) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) training. And she has twenty years of business experience as Sutton Enterprises.
