In Preparing for the Challenge of Supervision and Leadership, you'll learn...
- How to describe the role of a supervisor at your company and how it differs from a non-supervisory position
- Why it’s important to adapt how you communicate based on diverse personality styles, differing situations and varying purposes
- The importance of integrity, honesty, ethical action and building trust as a supervisor and a leader
- How to identify why you want to be a supervisor and if this position will provide the satisfaction you seek
- And much more!
Becoming a supervisor is an important decision both for the individual and for the organization. Studies have shown that nearly half of all new supervisors across all industries will no longer be in their supervisory position after 18 months, either because they have been reassigned, terminated or have resigned. Also, most potential and new supervisors have many misperceptions about the position of supervision and fail mostly due to a lack of information and a lack of self-awareness.
This course will not be like most courses you’ve attended in the past because its goal is not to build supervisory skills. Rather, it is designed to help you become aware of many of the challenges and issues supervisors face so you can decide if becoming a supervisor is something you would like to pursue in the future.
- Understanding the role of a supervisor
- Uncovering the Leadership Effectiveness Framework
- How to assess your current supervisory competencies
- What current supervisors wish they knew beforehand
- The choice to make a significant career change
- Discovering the 4 myths about supervision
- Making the transition from technical expert to supervisor
- An 11-step approach for easing the negative effects of a transition to supervision
- What it really takes to earn respect from others
- Why you need to change your relationships with your former co-workers
- Self-awareness—understanding your team interpersonal style
- Team chemistry: Personality and interpersonal styles that lead to collaboration—and to conflict
- Identifying the qualities of a good leader
- How to develop your leadership abilities
- How to get your team on board with organizational goals
- Discovering what makes a good delegator
- The 4 most common problems you’ll encounter from delegating—and how to break through them
- A 16-point checklist for effective delegation
- Understanding the importance of being accountable and holding others accountable
- Trustworthiness through honesty, integrity and ethical action
- How ethics pave the way for success
- How to resolve ethical dilemmas
- Why it’s critical to always keep your promises
- Tolerance—understanding the 2 dimensions of diversity
- How to uncover the factors that have shaped your perspective
- How to identify prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, racism or stereotyping in virtually any situation
- Understanding creativity and its importance
- Identifying the characteristics of creative thinkers
- Find out how flexible you really are
- Determining how you respond to change
- Uncovering those who thrive on change
- How to support your team, your peers and your manager during change
- Is supervision a good fit for you?
- The 10 golden rules of time management
- Uncover the project life cycle
- Learn about the triple constraints of every project
- Find out about the major project management tools
- Why it’s important to maintain technical competence as you build supervisory competence
- What good decision making means to a group—and what happens when it’s missing
- Why some supervisors fail with remote employees and how to make sure you don’t
- The best way to “control” an off-site office? Ironically, it’s not what you would think
- How to increase your political savvy and why it’s vital to your career to do so
