How to Supervise People

Learn effective leadership skills to maximize employee performance

Discover supervisory training power-packed with fresh ideas to motivate every manager in your organization

Managing employees in today's complex and ever-changing business culture is not an easy task. As a manager, you're the one in charge, but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to successfully fulfilling all the roles you actually fill. Supervisors and their teams have more complex relationships than ever before, requiring a supervisor to be a friend, coach, boss, mediator, and so much more.

What if you could propel every supervisor in your organization toward success in easily managing people, time, projects, and tasks?

This powerful one-day seminar will teach you and every member of your supervisory staff the all-important skills to help you communicate corporate directives, coach and counsel employees, and pave the way for change. Filled with practical how-to strategies, this training will lay the foundation for improving every attendee's abilities in:

• Delegating
• Motivating and praising
• Delivering criticism and discipline
• Working under pressure
• Meeting tight deadlines
• Training new employees
• Organizing people, projects, and schedules

How to Supervise People is presented in a manner that offers attendees the chance to use group activities, workbook exercises, and team discussion to enhance the material presented by a hand-selected trainer. Regardless of experience level, each attendee will benefit from new ideas and skills that keep everyone in your organization performing at their peak. If you and your team are looking to boost productivity, streamline workflow, and ignite a positive, productive day every day, this program is for you.

Get the training you need to help new supervisors, senior supervisors, mid-level supervisors, and "non"-supervisors alike develop stronger leadership, more productive relationships, and enhanced succes. Learn how to:

• Mesh people with diverse attitudes, backgrounds, and styles into solid teams
• Feel better about your role as a supervisor and gain a new feeling of confidence
• Overcome the discomfort of becoming the boss of a former peer
• Delegate the right way for total effectiveness
• Feel less stress from the many demands placed on supervisors
• Truly enjoy your job!

Program Overview

• Make the transition to supervisor
• Overcome the early obstacles
• Improve results with practical leadership skills
• Give your role as supervisor your personal best

Make the transition to supervisor

• Identify the areas that need improvement in your workplace and within your own supervisory skill set
• Find the delicate balance necessary to supervise friends and former peers
• Establish supervisor-subordinate relationship boundaries that will be understood and respected

Overcome the early obstacles

• Identify the 5 most common traps encountered by new supervisors and find out how to steer clear of them
• Unify employees into a smooth-running, productive team, despite differences in personality, background, and age
• Identify difficult employees and handle them easily, appropriately, and swiftly
• Control absenteesim and tardiness

Improve results with practical leadership skills

• Give orders and instructions that are easily understood and readily accepted
• Slash employee turnover costs and prevent hassles by using the best hiring and interviewing techniques
• Discover smart ways to set goals and assess productivity
• Give constructive criticism that won't be taken personally — by even the most sensitive employee
• Develop a keen sense of timing for taking corrective action or firing an employee — and know the legal implications of your decisions

Give your role as supervisor your personal best

• Get others to believe in the organization and view it as more than just a place to work
• Originate project plans and set goals that your team will support
• Build a positive work climate and deal effectively with negative attitudes
• Gain confidence and win the respect of your boss, peers, and team members!

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