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Basic Supervision

Five Day Facilitated Course

 

LEADING IN 21ST CENTURY

Leadership is the total effect you have on the people and events around you. This total effect is your influence. Effective management is being consciously responsible for your organizational influence. The way you use your influence affects the way your people use their potential. You cannot control people into being innovative, productive and creative-you use you influence and skill to create an environment in which they are willing to do well what you want them to do.

Individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership abilities areas of competencies PERFORM: Purpose, Empowerment, Relationships and Communication, Optimal Performance, Recognition, Motivation and Morale.

 

This program is designed to enable enhance your competencies, and allow you to bring out the best in your people, maximize your influence and improve your skills. The tools techniques and formats provided in this class will also contribute to your over all satisfaction, build relationships with others, and enhance your success supervising diverse individuals in a changing environment.

 

BENEFITS:

This program will

·         Bring out the best in everyone's performance

·         Examine personal styles of behavior in the workplace and the styles of others;

·         Determine how these styles affect the quality of leadership;

·         Explore the origin of visioning and its relationship to values;

·         Explore diversity in terms of personality;

·         Help new and experienced managers improve their skills

·         Help not only the manager, but everyone affected by the manager

·         Develop qualities of effective authority, supervision, influence and discipline

·         Provide "SEVEN COMPETENCIES " to develop and enhance managerial skills and techniques in a creative way

 

SUPERVISORY COMPETENCIES

 

P: Purpose -Vision in Action

E- Empowerment- Validate, Partner.

R- Relationships and Communication- Dialogue, Clear Motives/Intentions

F- Flexibility

O- Optimal Performance- Consensus, Constructive Disagreement

R- Recognition-Genuine, Specific Valuing

M- Motivation and Morale - Visibility, Engage, Access, Involve

 

OVERVIEW

1.       Supervisory Responsibilities

Leading in the 21st Century

Developing Subordinate And Team Performance

Inspiring a Shared Vision -Putting it into Action

 

2.       Partnering for Performance:


Values in Action

Motivating A Diverse Work force

Situational Leadership:

Coaching and Counseling

Delegation

Team Building

 

3.       Interpersonal Relations


Effective Communication

Effective Decision Making

Innovative Problem Solving

 

4.       Performance Management


Conduct and Discipline

Conflict Management

 

5.       Ethics

 

PRECOURSE OPTIONS

·         Supervisory Survey

·         Participants gather confidential "360-degree" feedback from colleagues.

·         Participants interview a leader of their choice

·         Participants complete the Personality Inventory

 

 

PARTNERING FOR PERFORMANCE I

INSPIRING A SHARED VISION -PUTTING IT INTO ACTION

Organizations with vision, mission, values and goals that are deeply shared throughout the organization bind people together around a common identity and a sense of purpose. To develop into a great organization your vision keeps everyone on track - people know where they are going, how they contribute and the importance of their participation.

 

Yet, though your vision may be the best strategy and what everybody wants, if the people responsible for integrating the strategic goals don’t buy-in, you’re in trouble! You need to cultivate their commitment. Implementing your vision requires understanding and action at many levels throughout the organization. All must understand, share in, and contribute to the vision or that vision will not become a reality.

 

The key is partnership. It creates an environment, which fosters innovation, productivity, and creativity while minimizing conflict, misunderstandings, and resulting chaos. The way you partner with your people will affect the way they take initiative. It will determine whether or not your people choose to be responsible, and not just reactive.

 

The tangible tools, techniques, and system -based formats provided in this class will build rewarding relationships with others by charting out mutual expectations based on a shared vision.

 

BENEFITS:

·         Understand what is essential to take a vision into action

·         Understand the importance of partnering with your people in this process

·         Identify your mission and your organizations mission

·         Six steps to take a vision into action

·         Develop a successful plan of action to implement the goals

·         Accomplish more of what is important

·         Know the satisfaction of working on what counts

·         Identify where you are now, to make goal setting more meaningful

·         Determine what you want and what you need to motivate you and others

·         Specify steps to make goal achieving less burdensome

 

 

COURSE CONTENT-VISION IN ACTION

·         The Crisis-The Importance Of A Vision

·         The Why's And Wherefore’s

·         Why Create A Vision? Beliefs Create Reality

·         Requirement For An Effective Vision

·         Examples Of A Powerful Visions

·         Developing A Vision, Strategic Plan, Tactical Plan, and Budget Allocations

·         The Visioning Process- the Eight Essentials

·         Visioning Guidelines- The Six Principles for Success

·         Planning Guide

·         The Process

·         Identifying A Central Purpose

Developing Broad Goals To Achieve The Mission

Identifying Core Values

Getting Buy-in From Stakeholders

Environmental Analysis

Developing Strategic Initiatives

Assigning Specific Projects And Activities

·         Build A Partnership That Works Together To Meet Deadlines, Cope With

·         The Six Steps To Creating Partnership

Mutual Expectations

Mutual Agreement

Negotiation And Collaboration

Review Of Support And Achievement

Re-Assessment And Redirection

·         Making It Work- Action Planning

Develop Action Plans

Overcome Obstacles That Get In The Way

Cultivate Support /Resources To Reach Your Objectives

Monitor Results And Achievements

 

PARTNERING FOR PERFORMANCE II

MOTIVATING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE

Developing an appreciation for each person's uniqueness and strategies to bring out the best performance in each individual is essential to good leadership. Diversity in the workforce means there are differences in personality that you have to learn to manage successfully. The tangible tools, techniques, and formats provided in this class would help build relationships with others, and encourage and engage individuals in a changing environment.

 

GEREATIONS AT WORK

Veterans, Boomers, Xers, Nexters

 

CHOCOLATE - TRADITIONAL

Traditional workers are comfortable with rules, policies, and procedures. You believe that without such guidelines, social breakdown would result.

 

VANILLA - PARTICIPATORY

Social ties and interpersonal commitment are your preferred form of control. The participatory employee says, "I will do this. Will you do that? Promise? Promise."

 

STRAWBERRY - INDEPENDANTS

Control is a negative word for independents and you see it as restricted freedom. You believe control should come from what the individual thinks is right

 

BENEFITS:

MOTIVATING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE helps you as a manager to improve your communication and interpersonal relationships. It helps you to bring out the best in others:

Identify your personality and communication style and how it affects your relations with others

Discover the powerful tool for unlocking a closed mind

Learn how to use motivational approaches that work

Ensure good human relationships with associates

Motivate diverse personalities, generations

Recognize people’s individuality and use it to develop trust and respect

Utilize styles of human relations to influence the quality of work and the quality of work life

 

Situational Leadership

Coaching And Counseling

Twenty years ago, leadership meant power. Today, the key to supervising is coaching and counseling. The way a manager uses these techniques directly affects the way their people perform. But, their individual developmental level also affects the way people perform. The challenge of coaching/counseling is assessing the level of initiative and responsibility in each person, in light of the task and their motivation and ability. Not an easy task, but a profitable one!

 

BENEFITS:

This program will:

·         Bring out the best in everyone's performance

·         Help new and experienced managers improve their skills

·         Help not only the manager, but everyone affected by the manager

·         Develop qualities of effective authority, supervision, influence and discipline

·         Develop the ability to determine when to be directive, supportive, to counsel, to coach

·         Diagnose accurately if it is a motivation or ability issue

·         Creating a positive climate to encourage problem resolution

·         Dealing with MOTIVATION PROBLEMS

·         Dealing with ABILITY PROBLEMS

 

 

Effective Delegation

Learning to delegate is an acquired skill. Why? Most managers have achieved their successes because they are motivated, action-oriented people. Managers tend to have a can-do attitude about their jobs and their lives, and while these are admirable qualities a manager cannot do it all! As a great manager, you have to learn to empower the people around you. It is the best way for you not only to get top performance from others, but also get maximum results from yourself. The benefits are worth it - you accomplish much more, top-line goals for your organization are set collectively but responsibility for how best to achieve them is delegated to the individuals involved. Employees who take responsibility, not only improve their skills, but are more motivated.

 

BENEFITS:

·         Learn why, what, and how to delegate,

·         Delegate more than you want to, earlier than you need to.

·         Determine whether what you are delegating is strategy, process, project, task or activity

·         Chose the right person or people to carry out your requirements

·         Assess the capabilities, attitudes and skills of your staff and play to their strengths

·         Learn not delegate just to get rid of the nasty bits of your own job, but to motivate and develop others

·         Avoid creating indispensable and unpromotable people

·         Identify and overcome the four main reasons why managers don't delegate more often

·         Practice the six developmental steps managers must go through to delegate effectively

 

Team Building

It is clear that teams are not a new managerial fad. . According to Lawler’s 1995 study of USA’ s Fortune 1000 from ’87 to’93, self - managing work teams are used in 68% of the corporations and are applied to a growing percentage of the workforce. And teams have grown considerably since then. But it is also in disputable that the use and application of the true potential of teams is still unknown for many organizations. This workshop you help your work group learn what it takes to implement a teamwork system and learn the best practices so your effort to create a collaborative environment is successful.

 

BENEFITS:

·         Assessing your workgroup’s effectiveness

·         Understand what the basics principles of teamwork are

·         Create a checklist to determine why type of team types fits your organizational structure

·         Lean the many types of teams and know when each style is appropriate,

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