Supervising

I supervise two student workers who are program assistants (PAs). Both are upperclassmen and both are good at their jobs. One has some organizational issues so I'm trying to help her with that. I have never formally supervised anyone before so this is a new experience. My supervisor briefly went over the "supervising training" that I should have received in August with the rest of the GAs.

Every two weeks we have hour long one on one meetings in which I review their biweekly report and check in with them to see whats going on and how I can help. I reviewed expectations with my PAs and came up with some time management tips during a one on one. I also did a mid-semester check in which I reviewed them based on their end of semester job performance evaluation.

Now that I know what my job is, I am much better at supervising. I can actually give advice relating to the job instead of referring them to someone else in the office. One of my PAs had some personal issues and needed to adjust her work schedule/load so I helped her create a plan that would ensure all of the job requirements would still be completed, but allow her to step back a bit. We presented the plan to my supervisor and she agreed. It was the first time I actually felt like a "supervisor".