This manual was written as a guide to new county directors to help them supervise county department of social services staff in accomplishing agency goals and objectives. We define supervision as the ability to achieve planned results through staff who report directly to you. This may sound simple but it will consume about 80 percent of the time you spend managing the county department of social services. You manage the department through the work of others, so you have to be prepared to plan, lead, direct, delegate, teach, support and correct the people you supervise; who in turn, do same for those they supervise.
