Consulting with a Community Based Supervisor

The podcast episode discusses the importance of consulting with a community-based supervisor when facing conflicts. It emphasizes the need to act professionally, stick to facts, and avoid getting too emotional. It suggests prioritizing conversations and using reflective listening to understand the other person's perspective. The episode advises against avoiding conflicts, getting defensive, or being aggressive. It highlights the benefits of involving a supervisor who has more experience in handling such situations. Welcome back to the I have a question podcast. So this week, we're going to be talking about consulting with a community based supervisor. So essentially, we're going to discuss a little bit of the importance of talking with a supervisor, whether it's in the workplace, or whether it's at a place where you're volunteering for your social work hours. And that's what I'm doing. So I'll share a little bit about that. So essentially, the reason why I find it important to resolve conflicts professionally, and with a supervisor, because problems can just simply be solved smoother when people involved act respectfully, and also talk clearly about what happened. Very important to just stick to the facts, not really getting too much into the motions, because then at that point, you're just, you don't really know what you're saying. So it's very important to stay calm and collected. And, you know, talk to supervisor with whatever's going on, whether it's a conflict with someone you're volunteering with, like a child or a teenager, or whether it's someone like a co worker, just who's just not being compliant, who's just not being beneficial in the workplace. And so if you do get in that conflict with somebody, some of the things I consider dues would be getting your priorities straight, like, ask yourself whether this conversation is one that you, you know, you have to invest a lot of effort in, or it's one where you can just simply take the wisdom of another person and try to get better. And then also, it's not just about talking, but also listening, more specifically using reflective listening, you know, listening to what the other person is saying, and then trying to repeat it back to them and ask questions so you guys are on the same page. Some of the don'ts I'd say is don't avoid the conflict. You know, if a conflict happens, something stirs up, obviously don't feed into it, but don't avoid it, don't try to act like nothing is there because you don't want to do that kind of thing. You want to, you know, enter in there and at least listen to that person, listen to what, what they're, what they're saying, what they, what they are seeing from their perspective, and then also don't get defensive nor aggressive, you know, don't try to finish up saying, Oh, I did this, all this and that. And also don't try to tell the person, Hey, you didn't do this, you didn't do that. So it's very important that you stay calm and collected and just try to stick to the facts and involve your supervisor if possible, just because they probably have a lot more experience than you do and they know how to go about the situation. So that's what I have. And then, you know, let me know what you guys think of the comments about, you know, talking to your supervisor and resolving conflict. So see you guys in the next episode. Take care.