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Leadership Skills for Supervisors is a comprehensive training course for first level management e.g. Team Leaders, Supervisors, Section Heads, or Chargehands. Delegates learn and practice the skills to lead a team to achieve personal, departmental and company goals. Results are achieved through balancing the needs of the TASK, TEAM and INDIVIDUAL.


LEADING and MOTIVATING

•  Introducing Supervision -
Exploring the responsibilities of a Supervisor. Identifying their greatest Challenges.

•  Focusing on leadership -
Using personal characteristics and appropriate leadership behaviour to achieve results.

•  Motivating the team -
Understanding and using theories and practices that inspire the team to perform.

ESTABLISHING DIRECTION

•  Aligning team activities with business goals -
Establishing team goals and developing plans to achieve them.

•  Managing time -
Managing effective use of time and planning to achieve priority outcomes.

•  Understanding the needs of the business -
Leading the way in reducing costs and improving productivity.

MANAGING PERFORMANCE

•  Delegating -
Delegating work in a way that motivates and ensures employees are successful and grow.

•  Giving feedback and disciplinary counsel -
Conducting a disciplinary counseling interview to modify behavior. The value of feedback.

•  Identifying training needs and coaching -
Developing team members. Focusing on demonstration and feedback skills.

COMMUNICATING WITH THE TEAM

•  Working together successfully as a team -
Leading a team in identifying their values and good practices to enhance their performance.

•  Communicating positively -
Identifying and using positive words and attitudes when leading. The value of assertive behaviour and active listening skills.

•  Leading team meetings -
Creating and following an agenda. Handling difficult behaviours in meetings.

DEALING WITH DIFFICULTY

•  Solving problems -
Using structured approaches : Histograms, Fishbone Charts, Brainstorming.

•  Resolving conflict -
Using constructive management styles when dealing with conflict. The fears and needs of people involved.

•  Dealing with workplace pressure -
Identifying signs of workplace stress and developing an action plan to deal with pressure.


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Of all the Supervisor training courses out there,
why choose this one?

  • Our Course Developers have many years of experience in supervision, management, lecturing and training.
  • Leading Edge specialises in training Trainers, Supervisors and their teams.
  • This course is a careful balance of theory and practice.
  • It’s not too short that it is just a taste, and not too long that it’s logistically difficult to release the Supervisors.
  • From initial contact to after training follow up, our clients receive excellent service including:
  • our valued post course one-on-one coffee hour with delegates to discuss implementation of skills learned.
  • an optional post course assignment and coaching.


Delegates have fun whilst learning valuable tools and techniques that grow them as Supervisors.
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