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Megan Spee ‘s advice for first time co op supervisors: quick tips and tricks to help you not choke on easy management decisions later
Define what days they have off (civic holidays?) and if reading week is off. Also define policy for taking days off (sick days, vacation, whatever. Can just be a ‘ask me, case by case basis' type of thing but specify that).
Define purchase protocols
Clearly outline expectations, if you can't support them enough for them to stick to these expectations, get help from other leads or re-define expectations
Be critical enough of their work that they learn but not critical enough that they get demotivated
Big point: they should be learning things whenever possible
Get them on confluence (or whatever documentation means you choose) early enough that the documentation is consistent through whole term
Safety training is very important get all those certificates + ASK FOR PDFs